House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) says he will do everything in his power to get the full details of what Special Counsel Robert Mueller concludes to Congress and the public if Attorney General William Barr attempts to keep anything hidden.
“We will obviously subpoena the report. We will bring Bob Mueller in to testify before Congress. We will take it to court if necessary,” Schiff told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”
“In the end, I think the Department [of Justice] understands they’re going to have to make this public. I think Barr will ultimately understand that, as well,” Schiff said.
Six Democratic House committee chairpeople urged Barr in a letter Friday to publicize Mueller’s report. The lawmakers requested that the Justice Department provide parts of the report that are not made public to Congress and asked that the department explain its reasoning for any redactions.
“We write to you to express, in the strongest possible terms, our expectation that the Department of Justice will release to the public the report Special Counsel Mueller submits to you — without delay and to the maximum extent permitted by law,” the committee chairpeople wrote in the letter ...
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“We are going to get to the bottom of this,” Schiff said Sunday. “We are going to share this information with the public. And if the president is serious about all of his claims of exoneration, then he should welcome the publication of this report.”
Schiff: 'We will bring Bob Mueller in to testify' if report not made public (Politico)