House Democrats give Barr April 2 deadline to turn over full Mueller report

Six Democratic House committee chairs sent Attorney General William Barr a letter Monday, asking him to send Special Counsel Robert Mueller's full report no later than April 2.

The three-page letter was signed by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.), and House Foreign Affairs Chair Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.).

Barr submitted to Congress his four-page summary of the report on Sunday, but the lawmakers said this is "not sufficient." In addition to the report, they requested "underlying evidence and documents."

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In his summary, Barr said the Mueller investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated" with Russia. Regarding obstruction of justice, Barr quoted Mueller as saying that while his report "does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it does not exonerate him."