It's a big day for President Trump, but it is an especially big day for the Democrats who hope to run against him in 2020.
Some candidates issued tweets accusing Attorney General William Barr of bias and unfair redactions:
Other candidates hit the president for putting his own interests ahead of the country's:
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) expressed frustration with the number of redactions in the report:
Sen. Cory Booker's (N.J.) team released their own searchable version of the Mueller report:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) issued a video calling for Mueller to testify:
Several candidates did not issue any statements at all at the time of publication, including Beto O'Rourke, Tulsi Gabbard, and Jay Inslee.
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