Democrats are falsely trying to paint Republicans as wanting to withhold special counsel Robert Mueller's report from the public, a Republican House member said Tuesday.
"The Democrats are trying to paint a picture that there are Republicans who are preventing this from becoming public," Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said during an appearance on Fox News.
"We all went to the House floor and unanimously voted for the Mueller report to become public. But yet the very next day, you had Nancy Pelosi saying that the Republicans are trying to prevent this from being released. It's absolutely not the case."
President Donald Trump and his campaign were cleared of collusion with Russia — but that hasn't stopped Democrats from demanding to see Mueller's entire, unredacted report.
"This is normal processes. Everybody wants as much of this information out there because the risk is just too great for people like Adam Schiff and his minions to tell you things that are not true about information that's behind closed doors," said Turner
Attorney General William Barr said he would release a redacted portion of Mueller's report, scrubbed of grand jury testimony and classified information, by the middle of April. Democrats, however, want to see the full report as Mueller wrote it — and even plan to issue subpoenas to get their way.
Turner said it's important to scrub sensitive information out of the report so it stays secret.
"Clearly, there are things — and this is why we hoped for the Mueller report to go forward unimpeded — that they had access to that Congress will not have access to, intelligence, communications, signals intelligence, human intelligence," he said. "None of that should be public and none of that should be in the hands of Congress if it puts those things at risk."
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