A top member of the House Judiciary Committee and Democratic leadership said Sunday an agreement has been reached for special counsel Robert Mueller to testify on May 15.
In a bombshell dropped at the end of an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., declared “We think the American people have a right to hear directly from him.”
“A tentative date has been set for May 15 and we hope the special counsel will appear,” Cicilline said.
The Judiciary Committee has been seeking to hear from Mueller amid disagreements about whether Attorney General William Barr mischaracterized the special counsel’s report in his own congressional testimony and statements.
“The representative for the special counsel has” agreed, Cicilline said Sunday. “But, obviously, until the date comes, we never have an absolute guarantee.”
A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment, the Washington Post reported.
At issue is Mueller’s letter in March to Attorney General William Barr that reportedly complained his summary of the report “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of his work.
Last week, Barr fiercely defended his handling of the case before the Senate Judiciary Committ — denying he’d lied or misrepresented the Mueller report.
“I wasn’t hiding the ball,” Barr told Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., the Post reported.
Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election concluded that neither Trump nor his campaign conspired with the Russians to win. Mueller did not, however, make a judgment on whether Trump obstructed justice. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided not to pursue an obstruction case based on Mueller's report.
After Cicilline made the the remark about Mueller potentially testifying, Trump tweeted that the investigation is over and that Mueller should not agree to speak with House investigators.
"After spending more than $35,000,000 over a two year period, interviewing 500 people, using 18 Trump Hating Angry Democrats & 49 FBI Agents - all culminating in a more than 400 page Report showing NO COLLUSION - why would the Democrats in Congress now need Robert Mueller … to testify," he wrote.
"Are they looking for a redo because they hated seeing the strong NO COLLUSION conclusion? There was no crime, except on the other side (incredibly not covered in the Report), and NO OBSTRUCTION. Bob Mueller should not testify. No redos for the Dems!"
Democrats are probing deep into Trump's background and want to learn more about the Mueller report and why his team of investigators did not make a decision on obstruction.
Jason Devaney contributed to this report.
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