Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday said that he offered Robert Mueller the opportunity to review his four-page synopsis after the special counsel completed his two-year, $30 million probe into allegations that members of President Trump's campaign colluded with Russian Federation to alter the outcome of the 2016 election, but Mueller declined.
"In order to ask Special Counsel Mueller the right questions, the Committee must receive the Special Counsel's full report and hear from Attorney General Barr about that report", Nadler tweeted.
The redactions will be color-coded and accompanied by notes explaining the decision to withhold information, he said.
"I felt I should state bottom-line conclusions, and I tried to use special counsel Mueller's own language in doing that", he said.
Others have said Barr made the right decision on the obstruction question, noting that it is hard to prove that Trump committed criminal obstruction if Mueller did not find that he destroyed evidence or directly interfered with the investigation - even though he assailed the inquiry as a "witch hunt" and called the investigators partisan zealots. His review is separate from a Justice Department inspector general investigation into the early days of the FBI's Russian Federation probe, which Barr said he expects to conclude sometime around May or June.
He said he did not intend to ask a judge to allow him to release grand-jury material that Mueller generated, although he also said he did not anticipate shielding any elements because of executive privilege.
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he appreciated the desire of the Electronic Privacy Information Center to obtain the Mueller report, a document detailing what he described as an "extremely important subject matter to the nation".
Committee Democrats are likely jumping at the chance to pick over the report's grislier details (whatever those might be) with Mueller himself-a potential cable-news soundbite bonanza.
"I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal", Barr said.
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Following Barr's testimony on Tuesday, Lowey stressed Democrats' desire to see the unredacted document and raised concerns about whether the attorney general shared it with the White House.
Barr notably said that Mueller declined an opportunity to review the four-page letter he sent to Congress revealing the investigation's "bottom line" conclusions, although he conceded that Mueller's team might have preferred for the Attorney-General to have released more information initially.
Barr said he did not believe the evidence in the report was sufficient to prove the president had obstructed justice.
Barr said he did not attempt to summarize the special counsel's report because to do so would simply trigger criticism of being under inclusive or over inclusive.
"I look forward to reviewing the Mueller report myself", she added later in her remarks. He noted that every page of the Mueller report was marked sensitive and that nothing in the special counsel's submission was "sanitized" for immediate release.
Barr is scheduled to testify on the report itself at separate hearings before the Senate and House judiciary committees on May 1 and May 2.
Two days after receiving it, on Sunday, March 24, Barr sent a letter to House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders outlining the report's principle conclusions.
"It's hard to have that discussion without the contents of the report, isn't it, and that's why I'm suggesting that we wait until the report is out, and I'm glad to talk to people after then, and I'm already scheduled to testify about that", he said.
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