Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Thursday he wants as much content from Robert Mueller's report as possible released for the general public to see.
Cotton was on "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" to talk about Mueller's report, a summary of which was released last weekend that showed President Donald Trump has been cleared of conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.
"Wolf, I think we need to let Attorney General [William] Barr go through the Mueller report to ensure that we don't release any material that's prohibited by law," Cotton said.
"His letter on Sunday said that he wants to get out as much material as possible. I agree, I think we should try to release as much of the Mueller report that we can, but of course there are some federal laws that govern the release of federal grand jury materials. Attorney General Barr said he's going through that review; he expects it will take weeks, not months."
Cotton later added, "I think it's important that we make as much available to the public as possible, Wolf."
Mueller did not come to a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, but Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ruled that there was not enough evidence to pursue prosecution.
Cotton said Trump "was acting like a man who had been unjustly accused, and Wolf, I think anyone from the president to a private citizen, if they had faced 22 months of accusations that they had committed treason against their country, and they knew that that was a false charge, would be acting in a pretty aggressive fashion in trying to defend themselves, and that's what the president did."
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