House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler says special counsel Robert Mueller is eager to avoid the politics swirling around his investigation and doesn’t want to testify publicly on Capitol Hill about his findings.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is eager to avoid the politics swirling around his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia’s 2016 influence efforts and doesn’t want to testify publicly on Capitol Hill about his findings, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said Thursday.
Nadler and the committee have been in discussions with Justice Department officials about Mueller’s appearance for weeks, after initially proposing the special counsel appear on May 15. While Republicans have concerns about the origins of the investigation into the Trump campaign, Democrats have wanted to push Mueller on his findings, particularly on his decision not to make any determination as to whether Trump obstructed justice, after outlining several episodes of potential obstruction of the investigation into his campaign.
“I think it's important that he can make his statement,” Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told ABC News. “He can do that with a lengthy statement to explain his report, and respond to questions [in private].” “It is one thing to have him testify in public, it's another if the Justice Department sits behind him and tells him he can't answer this question, or that question, or do more than just read his own report. That won't fly.”
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