Attorney general William Barr is prepping a hand-crafted summary of the Mueller Report’s conclusions to send to Congress on Sunday, but House Democrats are getting read to fight for the whole report and threatening to use their subpoena powers.
Some version of the long awaited Mueller report will likely be released on Sunday, according to Justice Department sources who spoke with the Associated Press and Reuters — while other reports said as soon as Sunday. Either way, it sounds as though the Justice Department review of the report is well underway — though what Congress and the public will get to see remains an open question, and Attorney General William Barr is the person who, for now, gets to decide on the answer.
On Friday, Barr said that he “was committed to as much transparency as possible” regarding the release of the report, and reportedly spent Saturday working with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other staff to determine what they will include in a letter summarizing Mueller’s primary conclusions to Congress (and the public). No matter what they send, Democrats are getting read to fight for more.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that a summary of the report would not be sufficient, and that she would not agree to a classified briefings either, wanting all discussion of the report to be held in public. House Democrats are loudly announcing their expectation that the report be released in full, and have said they will subpoena the report and Mueller himself if they have to, as well as take the Trump administration to court.
