--- title: Democrats Are Pushing New AG to Release Full Mueller Report description: House Democrats told AG William Barr they expect him to relay the bulk of Mueller's report to Congress — even the classified portions. canonical: https://time.com/5535782/house-democrats-mueller-report/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-22T21:23:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T22:50:38.158Z article:section: Politics og:title: Democrats Are Already Pushing Trump's New Attorney General to Release the Full Mueller Report og:description: Lawmakers argue it's essential Congress receive this information to hold the President accountable og:url: https://time.com/5535782/house-democrats-mueller-report/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7aa9ccd61aa8947/698943a3096a94738b6a464d/robert-mueller-disputes-buzzfeed-report-cohen-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: robert-mueller-disputes-buzzfeed-report-cohen-trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Democrats Are Already Pushing Trump's New Attorney General to Release the Full Mueller Report twitter:description: Lawmakers argue it's essential Congress receive this information to hold the President accountable twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7aa9ccd61aa8947/698943a3096a94738b6a464d/robert-mueller-disputes-buzzfeed-report-cohen-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Democrats Are Already Pushing Trump's New Attorney General to Release the Full Mueller Report > Sponsored content. 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AFP Contributor—AFP/Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Feb 22, 2019 9:23 PM UTC Leading House Democrats told newly installed Attorney General [William Barr](http://time.com/5503496/william-barr-hearing-testimony-trump-mueller/) on Friday that they expect him to [relay the bulk of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s forthcoming report](http://time.com/5530421/william-barr-attorney-general-robert-mueller-report/) into Russian collusion in the 2016 election to Congress — even the classified portions. “We write to you to express, in the strongest possible terms, our expectation that the Department of Justice will release to the public the report Special Counsel Mueller submits to you — without delay and to the maximum extent permitted by law,” six chairs of the most powerful committees in the House of Representatives wrote in a letter to Barr on Friday. They also specified that any parts that must be redacted should be submitted to Congress — along with the rationale for doing so — so that lawmakers can assess the necessity of such omissions. The letter was signed by Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings, Foreign Affairs Chair Eliot Engel, Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler; Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal, Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, and Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters. The group also told Barr they expect to receive any other information and materials from the Special Counsel “regarding certain foreign actors and other individuals who may have been the subject of a criminal or counterintelligence investigation.” The letter comes after [both CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/special-counsel-conclusion-announcement/index.html) and the Washington _Post_ reported that Mueller was [preparing to submit his report](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-preparing-for-mueller-report-in-coming-days/2019/02/20/c472691c-354b-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.0d3d023aced9) to the Department of Justice within the next week. Under DOJ regulations, Mueller would submit his report to Barr, who would assume jurisdiction for what gets released. The lawmakers argued in their letter that it was essential Congress receive this information to hold the President accountable, because longstanding Justice Department policy indicates a sitting President cannot be indicted. “Congress could be the only institution currently situated to act on evidence of the President’s misconduct. To maintain that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and then to withhold evidence of wrongdoing from Congress because the President will not be charged, is to convert Department policy into the means for a cover-up,” they wrote. The list of demands, now formalized in writing, heightens the possibility of a legal showdown between Congress and the Justice Department if the Democrats do not feel their expectations are met. Now that they hold the majority in the House, Democratic lawmakers [are armed with subpoena power](http://time.com/5498903/house-democrats-infighting/) – something Nadler told TIME he would use to obtain Mueller’s report if necessary. “I think it’s imperative that the Mueller report, when he issues it, be a public report,” Nadler told TIME last December. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5535782/house-democrats-mueller-report/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5535782/house-democrats-mueller-report/"},"headline":"Democrats Are Already Pushing Trump's New Attorney General to Release the Full Mueller Report","datePublished":"2019-02-22T21:23:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T22:50:38.158Z","description":"Lawmakers argue it's essential Congress receive this information to hold the President accountable","url":"https://time.com/5535782/house-democrats-mueller-report/","keywords":["Congress","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7aa9ccd61aa8947/698943a3096a94738b6a464d/robert-mueller-disputes-buzzfeed-report-cohen-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7aa9ccd61aa8947/698943a3096a94738b6a464d/robert-mueller-disputes-buzzfeed-report-cohen-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"robert-mueller-disputes-buzzfeed-report-cohen-trump","caption":"Robert Mueller","creditText":"AFP Contributor—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5535782/house-democrats-mueller-report/","name":"Democrats Are Already Pushing Trump's New Attorney General to Release the Full Mueller Report"}}]}] ```