--- title: 2020 Democrats Call for Release of Full Mueller Report description: Nearly every Democrat running for President in 2020 has demanded that the full contents of the Mueller report be released to the public. canonical: https://time.com/5558112/robert-mueller-report-democrats-response/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-25T17:11:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:57:10.375Z article:section: Politics og:title: Democratic Presidential Candidates Call for Release of Mueller Report og:description: "I want the whole damn report." og:url: https://time.com/5558112/robert-mueller-report-democrats-response/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt387434725d593fde/69894740b3fce30b570c359f/gillibrand-2020-mueller-report.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: gillibrand-2020-mueller-report og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Democratic Presidential Candidates Call for Release of Mueller Report twitter:description: "I want the whole damn report." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt387434725d593fde/69894740b3fce30b570c359f/gillibrand-2020-mueller-report.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'I Want the Whole Damn Report.' 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 25, 2019 5:11 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand speaks during official kick-off rally of her campaign for U.S. president at Columbus Circle in New York on March 24, 2019. Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand speaks during official kick-off rally of her campaign for U.S. president at Columbus Circle in New York on March 24, 2019. Lev Radin—Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 25, 2019 5:11 PM UTC In the aftermath of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report Sunday, nearly every Democrat running for President in 2020 has demanded that the full contents of the Mueller report be released to the public. Some 2020 Democrats suggested that Barr’s summary of the report was suspect because he had been appointed by Trump. Sen. Cory Booker [tweeted](https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/1109909601691029505?s=20) that the Barr letter was an “in-house summary from a Trump Administration official.” Julián Castro[ tweeted](https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1109922413192585218?s=20) that “a politically appointed Attorney General shouldn’t decide how much of the Special Counsel report Congress can read.” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [tweeted](https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/1109914661254807554) that Barr was “someone appointed by Trump to protect himself.”  Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand speaks during official kick-off rally of her campaign for U.S. president at Columbus Circle in New York on March 24, 2019. Lev Radin—Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images “It’s like having your brother summarize your report card to your parents,” said former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and possible 2020 candidate Stacey Abrams [on Sunday](https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1110195382749786118). “We should be deeply suspicious.” Nearly everybody has demanded that the full report be released. “The American taxpayer paid for it and they ought to get to see it,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren [said](https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1110149581168349189) Monday at a campaign event in New Hampshire. “If they don’t, everybody assumes something is being hidden.” “I don’t want a summary of the report,” Sen. Bernie Sanders [told a crowd Sunda](https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bernie-sanders-san-francisco-rally-13713028.php)y in San Francisco. “I want the whole damn report, because nobody, especially this president, is above the law.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar recorded a [short video](https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1109898839211819010?s=20) in front of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building and posted it on Twitter. “Today, like everyone else, I want to see that Mueller report,” she said. “It’s time to make the entire report public. That’s justice.” After Barr’s letter was released, Sen. Kamala Harris [tweeted](https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1109917969155612676) that “a short letter from Trump’s hand-picked Attorney General is not sufficient.” A few hours later, she elaborated at a campaign event in Atlanta. “The American public deserves transparency and accountability and the Mueller report must be made public for a full accounting of what happened,” Sen. Kamala Harris [said to a cheering crowd](https://www.mediaite.com/trump/watch-kamala-harris-demands-ag-barr-be-hauled-before-congress-over-mueller-report/) at Morehouse College on Sunday. “The Attorney General of the United States must be required to come and testify before Congress instead of just submitting a four-page memo on what happened.” But even though nearly every Democrat running in 2020 has demanded the release of the full report, some warn against expecting that the Mueller investigation will be the silver bullet that would end the Trump presidency. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg argued Sunday that the only way to cure the country from Trumpism is to beat him at the ballot box, not in court. “It would be a mistake for Democrats to think that the way for the Trump presidency to end is by way of investigation,” Buttigieg told [MSNBC on Sunday](https://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/one-on-one-with-mayor-pete-buttigieg-1464015939523). “We’ve got to be paying attention to the kinds of conditions that made it possible for somebody like him to get here in the first place.” “At the end of the day this campaign can’t be about him,” he continued. “I think part of how we lost our way in 2016 was it was much too much about him and it left a lot of people back home saying, ‘OK, but nobody is talking about me.’” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5558112/robert-mueller-report-democrats-response/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5558112/robert-mueller-report-democrats-response/"},"headline":"'I Want the Whole Damn Report.' 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