As a result of discrepancies between claims made by the attorney general and a letter from the special counsel, Graham is now offering Mueller the chance to testify.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham extended an offer to special counsel Robert Mueller Friday to provide testimony about claims made by Attorney General William Barr during testimony earlier this week, according to a letter sent to Mueller.
But the move may not satiate Democrats‘ wishes for Mueller to take part in a full hearing about the two-year investigation he led into Russian election interference and alleged coordination with the Trump campaign.
Barr told the Committee Wednesday that after Mueller expressed frustration in letters to him about the accuracy of Barr’s four-page summary that was released in the days after Mueller’s report, the two talked by phone. The attorney general said the special counsel’s concerns stemmed around the media’s portrayal of Barr’s four-page summary—not the accuracy of the summary itself—and that the redacted report and Mueller’s executive summaries should be released immediately.
Such an explanation was contradictory to what Mueller stated in his letter, which was that Barr’s summary „did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.
