AG William Barr Expected to Be Grilled About Mueller Report on Capitol Hill

AWASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General William Barr is set to face members of Congress amid intense speculation over his review of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.

Barr isn’t coming to Congress to talk about the report, but lawmakers are expected to ask about it anyway as they anxiously wait to see it in the coming days.

The topic of the House appropriations subcommittee hearing on Tuesday is the Justice Department’s budget, and Barr’s prepared remarks didn’t mention Mueller’s report at all.

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The Justice Department is preparing to release within days a redacted version of Mueller’s report into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Barr said in a four-page summary of Mueller’s main conclusions that Mueller didn’t find a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and the Kremlin. The attorney general has also said that Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice. Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided the evidence was insufficient to establish obstruction.

(Associated Press)