'The American public has a right to hear directly from him,' the Louisiana senator said in a statement.
Sen. John Kennedy is urging Robert Mueller to testify in public following reports that the special counsel was pushing for a closed-door appearance with members of Congress in negotiations with House Democrats.
Democrats have been trying to get Mueller to testify before congressional committees in the wake of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. They’d also like to hear directly from Mueller about his reasons for not making a prosecutorial judgment on whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice as the probe proceeded.
But Kennedy, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, maintains that the public would benefit from hearing from Mueller himself ― even though he agrees with his colleagues who say Trump and his campaign did nothing wrong.
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