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House Committee Authorizes Subpoena for Full Mueller Report

HeadlineApr 04, 2019

Members of a House committee have cleared the way for Congress to subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Wednesday’s 24-17 vote by the House Judiciary Committee along party lines came one day after Attorney General William Barr missed a deadline imposed by lawmakers to turn over the full Mueller report. This is committee chair Jerrold Nadler.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler: “The Trump administration has an idea. They want to redact the Mueller report before they provide it to Congress. The Department of Justice says the proposal is a means to protect sensitive information that would not ordinarily be made part of the record. But we have reason to suspect this administration’s motives. The Mueller report probably isn’t the, quote, 'total exoneration,' unquote, the president claims it to be.”

This comes as The New York Times reported investigators on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team believe Attorney General Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Barr indicated.

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