Mulvaney: Mueller wanted Barr to rule on the obstruction of justice

White House acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said Sunday that special advocate Robert Mueller had asked Attorney General William Barr to determine whether President Donald Trump was preventing justice from taking place. FBI investigation into the interference of elections in Russia.

"What you have seen here is simply that Mueller says," You know what? I'll let Barr call this one, "said Mulvaney, discussing the final report on the investigation conducted by Mueller for 22 months, with host Jonathan Karl, in the program" This Week From the ABC channel.

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"He had a lot of evidence to say about the collusion:" Absolutely not, "and he actually shook hands with Barr," Mulvaney said. "Again, that's how the system works and works."

In a four-page letter delivered to Congress late last week, summarizing the "key findings" of Mueller's report, Mr. Barr wrote that the special advocate "has not established that members of the Trump campaign had conspired or coordinated with the Russian government's "electoral interference activities" during the White House race in 2016.

But the Attorney General revealed that Mueller had refused to rule on the obstruction of the president's justice, including firing FBI director James Comey.

"The special council stated that" although this report does not conclude that the president has committed a crime, he does not exonerate him either, "Barr wrote to the legislator, adding that the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and himself had concluded that the findings of Mueller's investigation were "not enough to establish that the president committed an offense of obstructing justice. "

"This is not what these documents do," Mulvaney said, referring to the fact that Mueller had not yet made his verdict on the obstruction.

"When you do an investigation like this, there are usually two results – either criminal charges or simply disappearing. These types of surveys are not designed to exonerate people. "

Last week, the House Democrats renewed their calls for the full publication of Mueller's report after a vote of 420 to 0 to make the entire document public. Barr said on Friday that he was ready to hand over a redacted copy of the report to lawmakers and the public by mid-April – "if it is sooner" – and said that he would be ready to testify before Congress early May.

Mulvaney insisted on Sunday that the White House was "very happy to let the system unfold as the law intended" and said that Barr "had made it clear" that he had the "right". intend to publish the Mueller Report to Congress before sharing it with the West Wing. .

"If Mr. Barr wants to show it to Congress first, he will do it.If he wants to scratch some of it, he will do it.If he does not do it, he will do it", Mulvaney said.

Mulvaney declined to say whether the White House would issue the written responses provided by the president to Mueller during the special council's investigation and blamed Mueller's appointment on "a small group of people belonging to the forces of the 39 order, including the FBI and the MJ, who really wanted to overturn "the results of the 2016 election.

"They can not accept the fact that he is president and from the beginning, actually before the elections, they set the table to try to prevent him from becoming president," he said. .

The FBI opened its investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and on a possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in July of the same year, four months before the 39th. Trump's election to the presidency. Rosenstein appointed Mueller to oversee this investigation in May 2017, eight days after Comey's dismissal of Trump.