BATTLE FOR WORLD / SPUTNIK NEWS - January 3, 2018: The article highlights that with the Democratic Party winning a majority in the US House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections, party leaders have promised to press the Russiagate investigation further than the Republicans had before. One journalist told Sputnik Wednesday (January 2) the Democrats’ real goal was to try and govern from the Capitol.

Radio Sputnik's Loud and Clear spoke with Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author of three books, regarding what we can expect from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in 2019, its third year of operation.

"A House committee can keep the ball rolling indefinitely," Lazare noted. "Nothing solid has turned up about collusion in the Russiagate story. Yet, the story keeps going and going, a new tidbit is put out every week, and so the scandal keeps somehow perpetuating itself. And even though there's less and less of substance coming out, so I expect that'll be the pattern for the next few months, and I expect that the Democrats will rev this whole process up to make it sort of seem as if there really is an avalanche of information crashing down on Trump when there really isn't."

Among the chief motivations for Democrats going into 2019 is that "Democrats are now the party of war," Lazare said, noting that Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi called Trump's prospective withdrawal from Syria a "Christmas gift to ISIS [Daesh]."

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