House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Wednesday the Justice Department was unlikely to meet the April 2 deadline congressional Democrats set to deliver the full report by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Nadler based that on a conversation with Attorney General William Barr earlier in the afternoon.
“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.”
But Nadler said he was not satisfied with Barr’s responses on providing the unredacted report and underlying evidence, nor his timeline for providing more information.
“April 2 is a hard deadline that we set and we mean it,” said the New York Democrat. “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.”
The Judiciary Committee chairman expects Barr to testify before his committee soon and said he would determine whether to ask Mueller to testify based on that hearing.
Nadler also said he was receiving “a lot of material” from a broad request for information sent to 81 individuals or organizations affiliated with Trump. “There’s been a lot of cooperation, except by the White House,” said Nadler.
