Nixon White House Counsel John Dean will testify in Mueller report hearings starting next week

The House Judiciary Committee is set to hold hearings on the Mueller report beginning next week, and for the first one, they're recruiting a key Watergate figure.

The committee on Monday announced a series of hearings beginning on June 10, with Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) saying the first "will focus on President Trump's most overt acts of obstruction," The Hill reports.

This hearing is being referred to as "Lessons from the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes." Former White House Counsel John Dean, who served under former President Richard Nixon and later testified against him, is set to testify. Dean has said that the Mueller report is "more damning" than Watergate and shows evidence of "clear obstruction."

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It remains unclear, however, whether former Special Counsel Robert Mueller himself will testify before Congress. He said last week while reiterating the findings of his investigation that he does not wish to do so, saying it would not be "appropriate" and that any testimony he would provide "would not go beyond" the report.

Nadler had previously suggested he would subpoena Mueller for testimony if necessary, but following Mueller's statement last week, Nadler would not say whether he would still do so, instead saying that Mueller in his press conference "told us a lot of what we need to hear."