House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued the following statement Friday pushing for the full release of Robert Mueller’s final report in the Russia probe.
“Now that Special Counsel Mueller has submitted his report to the Attorney General, it is imperative for Mr. Barr to make the full report public and provide its underlying documentation and findings to Congress. Attorney General Barr must not give President Trump, his lawyers or his staff any ‘sneak preview’ of Special Counsel Mueller’s findings or evidence, and the White House must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings or evidence are made public.
“The Special Counsel’s investigation focused on questions that go to the integrity of our democracy itself: whether foreign powers corruptly interfered in our elections, and whether unlawful means were used to hinder that investigation. The American people have a right to the truth. The watchword is transparency.”
Other lawmakers weighed in below.
House Intel Chair Adam Schiff told MSNBC: “The report itself, as important as it may be, is not as important as the underlying evidence, and of particular concern to us on the Intelligence Committee, any evidence of compromise—whether it was criminal or not—any evidence that a U.S. person, the president or anyone around him, may be acting in the foreign interest of an adversary not in the interest of our country.”