The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. November 29, 2018 Senate Blocks Vote to Protect Special Counsel Mueller's Probe ------------------------------------------------------------- Senate Republicans have again shut down a vote aimed at protecting special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe. Republican leadership has repeatedly said that such a bill was not necessary and that Mueller's investigation into possible collusion of the Trump campaign with Russian agents during the 2016 presidential elections, was not under threat. .