The day before the hearing, it was revealed that Mueller had written a letter to Barr saying, in part, that the attorney general's summary "did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this Office's work and conclusions. In the meantime, what Mueller found during his day investigation could lead to a widening of the partisan divide in the US, with Trump supporters likely to view the final results of the Mueller probe as exonerating the president, while his detractors see the report's contents and existing indictments as ample proof of wrongdoing.
You can access Mueller's report at the Department of Justice website. Since it's in PDF format, you can download the file to your device for offline viewing or transfer it to another device like a phone, tablet or e-reader. In addition to the president, other top Democratic and Republican lawmakers have said they want the full report released.
Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida. The Justice Department worked with Mueller's team to redact certain information from the public version of the report. During his Senate confirmation hearings in January, Barr told senators he wanted to release as much of the report as possible, "consistent with the law," as reported by CBS News. Barr said he would be clear about the redactions, according to The New York Times.
As detailed by The New York Times , 32 people have been charged with crimes by Mueller, including 26 Russian nationals who are unlikely to stand trial. Those indictments include charges against 12 Russian hackers alleged to have been behind cyberattacks in against the Democratic National Committee and against 13 Russians for spreading disinformation on social media , as well as the propaganda efforts' chief accountant.
Meanwhile, six Trump associates have been accused of crimes that include financial malfeasance and lying to investigators, and five of them have already been convicted or pleaded guilty. The most prominent are Paul Manafort, former chairman of the Trump campaign; Michael Cohen, a former Trump lawyer; and Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser. Mueller also has indicted longtime Trump political adviser Roger Stone over his alleged ties to WikiLeaks during the campaign.
With Trump himself unlikely to be indicted or subpoenaed and the Senate controlled by Republications, making it unlikely they would uphold a vote to impeach, impeachment had been deemed unlikely. Even before Barr's summary to Congress, that option became even more unlikely when Pelosi stated in early March that she doesn't support impeachment , saying that unless there's overwhelming evidence, impeachment would become too partisan and divisive to make it worth dominating the agenda of Congress.
But after Mueller's May 29 press briefing, more than three dozen Democrats -- and one Republican -- have called for impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives to begin. Even without an impeachment effort, we will see more investigations. As CBS News reported, the committee's chairman, Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, pointed out that a new addition to the five lines of inquiry would be "[w]hether any foreign actor has sought to compromise or holds leverage, financial or otherwise, over Donald Trump, his family, his business, or his associates.
Schiff has also pushed for Mueller to appear before the House Intelligence Committee to testify about the investigation:. The House Intelligence Committee has formally invited Special Counsel Mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation. Originally published March Updates, March Adds Amazon listings; March Adds information on when the report will go to Congress; April 9 : Adds Barr's statement on when he'll send the report to Congress; April Adds that DOJ will release the report on April 18; April 17 : Adds information on the Attorney General's press conference; April 18 : Adds official link to the report and information about the redactions.
April Adds background information. May 1: Adds reference to Barr's appearance at a Senate hearing. May 28 : Adds news of Robert Mueller's first public statement about the report. May Adds additional comments from Mueller's public statement and details around new calls for impeachment proceedings.
Mueller report update: What the special counsel said and how to read the doc for free Robert Mueller spoke for the first time since submitting his report on Russia's interference in the US presidential election. Jason Hiner. May 30, p. More on the Mueller report The facts on the Trump-Russia case How to read the Mueller report for free AG says no evidence of Trump collusion in report Findings will be delivered to Congress on CD, says report Memes all about being redacted for your amusement.
Trump realDonaldTrump March 24, According to The Washington Post , citing unnamed insiders, the report will lay out in finer detail the ways in which President Donald Trump may have obstructed justice in relation to Mueller's investigation, but where the special counsel could not determine Trump's intention.
There will be a number of redactions throughout the report to protect confidential material and information that if made public could derail other ongoing investigations and cases, such as Roger Stone's. So far, only a four-page summary written by Barr of Mueller's main findings has been made public.
Democrats have demanded that the report be released in full so they can draw their own conclusions. House Democrats are running multiple investigations into Trump. Barr's summary noted that Mueller's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it had conspired or coordinated with Russia to influence the election. Moreover, Barr wrote that "the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference.
Barr stated that Mueller did not determine whether Trump had committed obstruction of justice, but the report did not exonerate the president.
Acting on their own, the attorney general and his deputy concluded that the evidence was insufficient to prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice.
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