President Trump tells reporters that AG Barr is the one who should decide if Special Counsel Mueller should testify before Congress.
that Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have already made preparations to get Mueller to testify and that they were looking at May 15 as a possible date.the committee was negotiating the possible testimony directly with Mueller's team, but that nothing had been finalized. Previously, the committee had been in discussions over Mueller's testimony with the Department of Justice.
Earlier Friday, before Trump's remarks, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., sent a letter to Mueller offering him the opportunity to testify before the Senate panel about"any misrepresentation by the Attorney General of the substance" of a phone call between the attorney general and the special counsel about about Barr's four-page summary of the Mueller report and the resulting press coverage.
On Friday, Trump was also asked if he would prevent former White House counsel Don McGahn from testifying before CongressMueller's nearly 450-page report detailed how Trump in which the president"directed" him to contact Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to have Mueller"removed" — a key part of the special counsel's investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice.
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