The American public will see special counsel Robert Mueller's report, as it has "every right to," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Wednesday, while accusing President Donald Trump of "completely changing his tune" about whether the report should be made public.
"I think he realizes that the [William] Barr summary, this four-page summary by his hand-picked attorney general, is about as good as it is going to get for him," the California Democrat told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "It doesn't go through the evidence on either the conspiracy or the obstruction issues."
Schiff also said he thinks it is "inevitable" that Mueller will have to testify before Congress, and most likely will be called to appear before more than one committee.
Barr testified that he would be a transparent as policy and law allow, Schiff continued, and Democrats will fight to make that happen. He added that Barr should be seeking permission from the court to release grand jury material rather than seeking to redact it and fighting Congress from getting it.
Meanwhile, Schiff said he does not think Barr misrepresented the report's ultimate conclusion, because he's a "very careful lawyer," but the meaning of the conclusions won't be known until the report is released.
He said he also wants to know if Mueller intended Barr to be the person to decide if charges would be filed, or if he intended that responsibility to go to Congress, as it did during the Watergate era.
Schiff said he also accepts Mueller's conclusion that he could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt the crime of conspiracy, but he added that "there is evidence of collusion and corrupt co-mingling of work between the Trump campaign and the Russians."
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