Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report is hundreds of pages in length, according to a new report.
Mueller’s report, which has not been shared with the public or submitted to members of Congress, is more than 300 pages long, the New York Times reports. The lengthy report stands in stark contrast to the four-page summary of Mueller’s findings that Attorney General William Barr shared on Sunday with Congress.
During Mueller’s 22 months investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, he “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” Barr’s summary said.
After Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, Mueller also began investigating whether Trump obstructed justice. Mueller declined to make a determination in the obstruction inquiry, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime.
Unsatisfied with the brief summary, House Democrats set an April 2 deadline for the Justice Department deliver the full Mueller report and the underlying documents.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Wednesday the Justice Department was unlikely to meet the deadline based on a conversation with Barr.
“He told me it was a very substantial report … one that in my opinion no four-page summary can do justice to,” Nadler told reporters, adding that Barr repeated a prior commitment to delivering at least a partial version of the report to Congress in “weeks, not months.”
Nadler said he was not satisfied with Barr’s response.
“April 2 is a hard deadline that we set and we mean it,” the New York Democrat said. “I am very concerned that it is apparent that the department will not meet the April 2 deadline that we set and I’m very disturbed by that.”
