Democrats are pressing for full disclosure of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Trump-Russia investigation and vowing to use subpoena powers and other legal means if necessary to get it.
Attorney General William Barr was expected to release his first summary of Mueller's findings on Sunday, people familiar with the process said, on what lawmakers anticipated could be a day of reckoning in the two-year probe into President Donald Trump and Russian efforts to elect him. Since receiving the report Friday, Barr has been deciding how much of it Congress and the public will see.
Democrats are on a hair trigger over the prospect that some information may be withheld.
"I suspect that we'll find those words of transparency to prove hollow, that in fact they will fight to make sure that Congress doesn't get this underlying evidence," Rep. Adam Schiff of California, chairman of the House intelligence committee, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." His plan: Ask for information and if that's denied, "subpoena.
If subpoenas are denied, we will haul people before the Congress. And yes, we will prosecute in court as necessary to get this information."
At his resort in Florida, Trump stirred from his unusual, nearly two-day silence on Twitter with the mild tweet: "Good Morning, Have a Great Day!" Then he followed up: "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
"It was a mistake to rely on written responses by the president," Schiff said, because those yield answers framed more by lawyers than by Trump. He said he was not surprised that Trump's lawyers resisted having him submit to a personal interview, given that "the president is someone who seems pathologically incapable of telling the truth for long periods of time."
They considered Mueller "right next to Jesus, he can almost walk on water," Jordan said, but "now they're launching all kind of other charges, all kinds of other investigations."
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