The Ministry of Justice plans to release the Mueller report to Congress by mid-April, if not sooner

The exact length of the report was hidden in secrecy, but Barr said Friday that the report was "close to 400 pages", not including annexes and tables, and "set out the conclusions of the special council , its badysis and the reasons for its conclusions. "

On Sunday, Barr published a four-page summary of Mueller's key findings. The latter made it clear that this was not meant to be a "comprehensive account of the investigation or the report of the special advocate".

In this summary, Barr said that the investigation on Russia "did not allow to establish" that the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russian government before the elections, but Mueller did not agree. had not reached a conclusion as to whether Trump obstructed justice.

Trump and his Republican allies claimed refugee status following Barr's summary of the Mueller report, while Democrats said they first had to read the report in its entirety to see what Mueller actually had discovered. They also want Barr to explain why, with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he felt that Trump's actions did not meet the standards for prosecuting a case of obstruction of justice.

Barr wrote Friday that he did not think it was in the public interest to summarize Mueller's full report, any more than he planned to publish sections "to the piece ".

"Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own," added Barr Friday.

Barr also confirmed that the Department of Justice and the Special Advocates team were striving to remove four types of report information: grand jury information, confidential information, information involving ongoing investigations and "information that would unduly affect privacy and reputation". third-party interests ".

But the redactions Barr is working on will not satisfy the Democrats.

Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Judiciary, Jerry Nadler of New York, issued a statement Friday in response to Barr's letter, insisting that the Democrats want the full report on Mueller without redactions.

"As I informed the Attorney General earlier this week, Congress demands full and complete report from Mueller, without redactions, as well as access to underlying evidence, by April 2. time is always respected, "said Nadler.

In their phone conversation this week, Nadler asked Barr to work with the committee to ask the courts to release information about the grand jury, according to a Democrat badistant who said Barr would not commit to the make. Democrats argue that there is a precedent for the publication of documents on the grand jury, and the badistant said that they considered this to be the "main obstacle" to the publication of Mueller's full report .

"Rather than spend valuable time and resources trying to keep some parts of this congressional report, he should work with us to seek a court order to disclose all grand jury information to the House Judiciary Committee. – as has been the case in all similar surveys in the past, "said Nadler. "There are many precedents for the Department of Justice to share all the information that the Attorney General proposes to remove from appropriate congressional committees."

Georgian Representative Doug Collins, a Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, accused Nadler in a statement Friday of setting arbitrary deadlines for Barr's release of the report, saying Nadler's request for not exchanging the grand jury and other information amounted to "the Attorney General to break the law by publishing the report without redaction."

The Department of Justice is likely to miss the April 2 Democrats deadline, although Democrats in the House have not yet announced what they will do next. Nadler said that he would take "deliberate" the date of Barr's proposed hearing in May, but he also added: "We believe that it is essential that Attorney General Barr immediately appear before Congress to explain the reasons underlying its letter was insufficient to establish an offense of obstruction of justice and its persistent refusal to provide us with the full report. "

At the same time, Senate Judiciary Speaker Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said about Barr's letter: "I look forward to news from Attorney General Barr on May 1".

This story has been updated with additional developments on Friday.