Setting up a potentially contentious showdown with lawmakers, Barr added that he had no plans to release a full, unredacted report to Congress, despite their demands for one.
“I don’t intend at this stage to send the full unredacted report to the [judiciary] committee,” Barr said.
The attorney general answered questions about the Mueller report in a hearing in front of the House Appropriations Committee on the Department of Justice’s 2020 budget.
When released, the report will be color coded to show why each redacted section was being withheld from public viewing, Barr said.
He also said that he had offered Mueller a chance to review his summary of Mueller’s findings but that Mueller declined the offer.
President Donald Trump had initially said that he would welcome the full release of the Mueller report.
Later, Barr clarified that before the letter went out to Congress, the attorney general’s office told the White House counsel that the summary was sent out. »
