Mueller report will be made public in mid-April 'if not sooner,' Barr says


The Mueller report will be ready for release in just a few weeks, Attorney General William Barr says.
Barr in a letter to lawmakers on Friday said that he anticipates a redacted version of the Mueller report, which is "nearly 400 pages," will be released "by mid-April, if not sooner." Barr released a summary of the report's findings on Sunday, saying they showed Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not establish that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and did not make a determination about whether Trump obstructed justice.
Barr says that he shares lawmakers' desire to make the report public and that "everyone will soon be able to read it on their own." He also says that his letter to Congress on Sunday was never meant to be an exhaustive summary of the entire report and that it was simply a summary of its principal conclusions. "I do not believe it would be in the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in serial or piecemeal fashion," he wrote.
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This new letter confirms that the Mueller report will not be sent to the White House for Trump to invoke executive privilege before its public release. Read the full letter below. Brendan Morrow
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