Former Department of Justice attorney Christian Adams predicted congressional Democrats will leak confidential elements of the Mueller report, in an attempt to undermine President Donald Trump.

Adams said Democrats with the proper security clearance will be able to get a look at the full report, along with their political staffers.

“What qualifies you for that is you’re a hill staffer for a Democrat or you’re a Democrat congressman or senator. Of course, we all know by now, Brian, that Trump derangement syndrome has no cure,” he told “Fox & Friends” Thursday.

“So, these folks [who] are going to get it are going to read the secret information about grand jury testimony, which you can’t reveal by law. It’s going to have classified information it. And of course we know they can’t be trusted.”

Adams said Democrats have a track record of not being able to keep a secret and cited Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation as an example.

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“We’ll probably find out exactly what the Mueller report says in three, maybe four hours, some time later this afternoon because we’ve seen how they leak like they did with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during the Kavanaugh hearings. They can’t keep a secret,” he said.

“So hopefully by the end of the day or not hopefully they’ll be telling us all there is to know.”

Adams said Democratic House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler will be one for the first to leak the report after he said his committee never agreed to keep the Mueller findings secret.

“Nowhere is Trump derangement syndrome more of an epidemic than in Gerald Nadler’s Upper West Side district,” Adams said.

“So don’t expect any reasonableness from him. I’m sure that he will be leading the charge to leak the terms and the content of the Mueller report. If anything maybe the attorney general is being too transparent. I mean there is grand jury testimony in here. And this is a group of people on Capitol Hill who are completely deranged about the president and cannot be trusted to not leak illegal information.”

A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.

We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.</s>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Friday subpoenaed the Justice Department for the full, unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation – as well as the underlying evidence that was part of the probe.

“The Department is required to comply with that subpoena by May 1,” the New York Democrat said in a statement.

“I am open to working with the Department to reach a reasonable accommodation for access to these materials, however I cannot accept any proposal which leaves most of Congress in the dark, as they grapple with their duties of legislation, oversight and constitutional accountability,” he continued.

Nadler said the redactions included in the version publicly released Thursday by Attorney General William Barr appear to be “significant.”

“We have so far seen none of the actual evidence that the Special Counsel developed to make this case,” he added. “Even the redacted version of the report outlines serious instances of wrongdoing by President Trump and some of his closest associates. It now falls to Congress to determine the full scope of that alleged misconduct and to decide what steps we must take going forward.”

Nadler’s committee voted early this month to authorize the subpoena for the report ahead of its release.

On Thursday, Barr notified Nadler and his Senate counterpart, Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that he would offer them and other top lawmakers the chance to review a less redacted version of the 448-page report in a “secure reading room” next week.

Nadler said the report outlines “disturbing evidence that President Trump engaged in obstruction of justice and other misconduct” and that Congress has the responsibility to hold him accountable.

Nadler also sent a letter to Mueller on Thursday requesting that he testify about his report before Congress “as soon as possible” or “in any event, no later than May 23, 2019,” tweeting that lawmakers “need to hear directly from special counsel Mueller and receive the full, unredacted report with the underlying evidence.”

Asked if holding the president accountable means impeachment, Nadler said, “That’s one possibility — there are others.”</s>U.S. House Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to obtain the full Russia investigation report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying that a redacted version “leaves most of Congress in the dark. “

 

 "My committee needs and is entitled to the full version of the report and the underlying evidence consistent with past practice,” Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler (Democrat-New York), said in a statement on April 19, the day after the release of the partially redacted 448-page report.

 

 Attorney General William Barr sent the Mueller report to Congress, blacking out several types of material, including classified information, material pertaining to ongoing investigations, and grand jury evidence.

 

 Mueller corroborated U.S. intelligence conclusions of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and also documented President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine his inquiry, but Mueller concluded there was not sufficient evidence to prove Trump and his team committed a crime by colluding with Russia officials.

 

 The report also points to areas where Trump and his associates could still face legal problems, as well as the potential for impeachment proceedings.

 

 “The redactions appear to be significant. We have so far seen none of the actual evidence that the special counsel developed to make this case," Nadler said. He said the report points to "serious instances of wrongdoing" by Trump.

 

 But the committee's top Republican, Doug Collins, said the subpoena was "wildly overbroad" and that Trump already declined to assert executive privilege in a move of "unprecedented openness."

 

 He said that Nadler was rushing the process for political gain.

 

 The subpoena gives Barr until May 1 to produce the materials requested.

 

 The subpoena is the opening shot in what could be a lengthy legal battle. If the Justice Department doesn't respond, Democrats could hold officials in contempt of Congress or eventually fight the battle in court.

 

 Mueller’s report painstakingly details evidence about Russian election meddling and confirms the previous findings of the U.S. intelligence community of a two-pronged Russian strategy to manipulate U.S. public opinion through e-mail hacking and a disinformation campaign.

 

 "The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion,” the Mueller report said.

 

 However, Russia’s Foreign Ministry falsely claimed on April 19 that Mueller "admitted" his investigation did not find evidence of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election.

 

 "There is nothing there to catch attention. In fact, it confirms the absence of any arguments proving Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. election,” said Georgy Borisenko, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s North America Department. “There is not a single piece of evidence. In fact, the report’s authors have admitting having no proof,” Borisenko claimed.

 

 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on April 19 also dismissed the evidence contained in the Mueller report, saying the Kremlin does not accept the meddling accusations.

 

 “As a whole, the report as before does not present any reasonable proof at all that Russia allegedly meddled in the electoral process in the United States,” Peskov told journalists in Moscow a day after the publication of the redacted version of the document.

 

 Among the most pointed allegations leveled earlier by Mueller regarding Russian interference was the indictment of a dozen Russian military intelligence officers who, he said, were behind the hacking and theft of Democratic Party e-mails, e-mails that were released in the heat of the 2016 U.S. election.

 

 While the Mueller report concluded there wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove Trump or members of his team colluded with Russia's state-sponsored meddling campaign, it said Trump and at least 17 of his campaign officials and advisers did have more than 100 contacts with Russians during the 2016 election campaign.</s>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate on Friday rejected Attorney General William Barr’s proposal to allow them access to a less-redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report.

In an April 19 letter to the attorney general, six Democratic lawmakers led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer instead reiterated their demand for Barr to release the unredacted Mueller report and underlying evidence to Congress. But they also said they were open to discussing a “reasonable accommodation” with the Justice Department.

The letter was also signed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, top Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Dianne Feinstein and top Senate Intelligence Committee Democrat Mark Warner.

“Your proposed accommodation - which among other things would prohibit discussion of the full report, even with other committee members - is not acceptable,” the Democrats wrote.

The lawmakers said access to the full Mueller report and underlying evidence is necessary for Congress to fulfill its “constitutional responsibilities”.

“This includes considering whether legislation is needed in light of the findings contained in Special Counsel Mueller’s report and the attorney general’s determination that no prosecution is warranted despite those facts,” the letter said.

Also on Friday, Nadler issued a subpoena to obtain the full report.</s>Justice Department official: Barr news conference to address department contacts with White House over Mueller report

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department official: Barr news conference to address department contacts with White House over Mueller report.</s>Former Department of Justice attorney Christian Adams predicted congressional Democrats will leak confidential elements of the Mueller report, in an attempt to undermine President Donald Trump.

Adams said Democrats with the proper security clearance will be able to get a look at the full report, along with their political staffers.

“What qualifies you for that is you’re a hill staffer for a Democrat or you’re a Democrat congressman or senator. Of course, we all know by now, Brian, that Trump derangement syndrome has no cure,” he told “Fox & Friends” Thursday.

“So, these folks [who] are going to get it are going to read the secret information about grand jury testimony, which you can’t reveal by law. It’s going to have classified information it. And of course we know they can’t be trusted.”

Adams said Democrats have a track record of not being able to keep a secret and cited Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation as an example.

“We’ll probably find out exactly what the Mueller report says in three, maybe four hours, some time later this afternoon because we’ve seen how they leak like they did with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during the Kavanaugh hearings. They can’t keep a secret,” he said.

“So hopefully by the end of the day or not hopefully they’ll be telling us all there is to know.”

Adams said Democratic House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler will be one for the first to leak the report after he said his committee never agreed to keep the Mueller findings secret.

“Nowhere is Trump derangement syndrome more of an epidemic than in Gerald Nadler’s Upper West Side district,” Adams said.

“So don’t expect any reasonableness from him. I’m sure that he will be leading the charge to leak the terms and the content of the Mueller report. If anything maybe the attorney general is being too transparent. I mean there is grand jury testimony in here. And this is a group of people on Capitol Hill who are completely deranged about the president and cannot be trusted to not leak illegal information.”

A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.

We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.</s>Former Department of Justice attorney Christian Adams predicted congressional Democrats will leak confidential elements of the Mueller report, in an attempt to undermine President Donald Trump.

Adams said Democrats with the proper security clearance will be able to get a look at the full report, along with their political staffers.

“What qualifies you for that is you’re a hill staffer for a Democrat or you’re a Democrat congressman or senator. Of course, we all know by now, Brian, that Trump derangement syndrome has no cure,” he told “Fox & Friends” Thursday.

“So, these folks [who] are going to get it are going to read the secret information about grand jury testimony, which you can’t reveal by law. It’s going to have classified information it. And of course we know they can’t be trusted.”

Adams said Democrats have a track record of not being able to keep a secret and cited Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation as an example.

“We’ll probably find out exactly what the Mueller report says in three, maybe four hours, some time later this afternoon because we’ve seen how they leak like they did with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during the Kavanaugh hearings. They can’t keep a secret,” he said.

“So hopefully by the end of the day or not hopefully they’ll be telling us all there is to know.”

Adams said Democratic House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler will be one for the first to leak the report after he said his committee never agreed to keep the Mueller findings secret.

“Nowhere is Trump derangement syndrome more of an epidemic than in Gerald Nadler’s Upper West Side district,” Adams said.

“So don’t expect any reasonableness from him. I’m sure that he will be leading the charge to leak the terms and the content of the Mueller report. If anything maybe the attorney general is being too transparent. I mean there is grand jury testimony in here. And this is a group of people on Capitol Hill who are completely deranged about the president and cannot be trusted to not leak illegal information.”

A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.

We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.</s>WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee formally issued a subpoena on Friday demanding that the Justice Department hand over to Congress an unredacted version of Robert S. Mueller III’s report and all of the evidence underlying it by May 1.

The subpoena, one of the few issued thus far by House Democrats, escalates a fight with Attorney General William P. Barr over what material Congress is entitled to see from the special counsel’s nearly two-year investigation. The chairman, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, asked for all evidence, including summaries of witness interviews and classified intelligence.

“My committee needs and is entitled to the full version of the report and the underlying evidence consistent with past practice,” Mr. Nadler said in a statement. “Even the redacted version of the report outlines serious instances of wrongdoing by President Trump and some of his closest associates. It now falls to Congress to determine the full scope of that alleged misconduct and to decide what steps we must take going forward.”

Mr. Nadler’s deadline falls a day before Mr. Barr is scheduled to testify publicly before the Judiciary Committee in what is expected to be an explosive session where Democrats plan to excoriate Mr. Barr’s handling of the report and Republicans will urge their colleagues to accept that there was no criminality and move on.</s>WASHINGTON — House Democrats began calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign on Thursday after delivering a press conference ahead of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report that Democrats criticized as political spin on the president’s behalf. California Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and a presidential candidate, was the first Democrat to go so far as to demand Barr’s resignation, as other House Democrats spent Thursday lamenting Barr’s remarks. “OUR Attorney General acts as Trump’s defense attorney. He can’t represent both. Barr must resign,” Swalwell tweeted.

And a third California Democrat, Rep. Barbara Lee, joined them later in the afternoon, tweeting that "Barr needs to resign." Democrats piled onto the argument that Barr had tried to skew perceptions of Mueller’s report at his press conference, including Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who declared on Thursday afternoon, "Turns out Bill Barr lied through his teeth this morning." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Twitter that Barr "confirmed the staggering partisan effort by the Trump Admin to spin public’s view of the #MuellerReport — complete with acknowledgment that the Trump team received a sneak preview."



Though short of calling on him to resign, Democrats criticized Barr’s presentation compared to what was actually in the Mueller report. Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer later released another joint statement, saying "one thing is clear: Attorney General Barr presented a conclusion that the president did not obstruct justice while Mueller's report appears to undercut that finding." "I'm still working through the #MuellerReport, but one thing is becoming clear: AG Barr's analysis this morning isn't matching up with what's in the document. The legality and the morality of the President's actions are still very much in question. Americans need to know more," Indiana Rep. André Carson tweeted. Rep. Jerry Nadler, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, meanwhile, sent Mueller a letter on Thursday calling on him to testify before the committee by May 23. Many other House Democrats quickly piled on to the call for Mueller to testify in front of Congress, and the House Intelligence Committee followed up with its own letter to Mueller asking for him to testify in front of that committee as well sometime in May.

Barr is already scheduled to appear before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on May 1 and 2.

 Barr was confirmed on Feb. 14 by a 10-vote margin in the Senate, kicking off what has been a muted first two months in office. Though his policies largely reflect those of his predecessor, former attorney general Jeff Sessions, Barr had stood up for Trump in the Russia investigation before he was nominated. Barr had volunteered a memo in 2018 to senior Justice Department officials before he was in the running for attorney general, arguing that aspects of the department’s investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia in the 2016 election were “fatally misconceived.” Barr also published an op-ed in the Washington Post in 2017 that defended the president’s decision to fire former FBI director James Comey. Although Trump has insisted the Russia investigation is a “witch hunt” created by Democrats trying to perpetuate a “hoax,” Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee in January, “I don’t believe Mr. Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt.” Barr and Mueller previously worked together at the Justice Department, and Barr told senators that the two remained friendly. But comparing Barr’s comments to the full report that followed, Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey called the revelations “obstruction-y.”</s>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., issued a subpoena Friday to obtain the "complete and unredacted" version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, as well as the underlying materials -- the next step in what is almost certain to be a lengthy political and legal battle between Democrats and Republicans over the report.

"This includes, but is not limited to, all summaries, exhibits, indices, tables of contents or other tables or figures, appendices, supplements, addenda or any other attachments whether written or attached in a separate electronic format," the subpoena says.

Nadler's push comes a day after a redacted version of the report was made public. The White House has hailed the report, which found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in 2016, as a victory.

But Democrats have pointed to Mueller's review of 10 instances where Trump may be considered to have obstructed justice -- although the special counsel did not conclude that Trump committed a crime -- as well as other details in the report as justification for Congress to see the full report, and for Mueller to testify to Congress.

Nadler and other Democrats have been particularly opposed to Attorney General William Barr's decision to release a redacted version of the report to Congress. Barr said that he, along with special counsel, identified four areas of the report that needed redactions, including grand jury material, information the intelligence community believes would reveal intelligence sources and methods, any material that could interfere with ongoing prosecutions, and information that could implicate the privacy or reputational interests of “peripheral players.”

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But Nadler has claimed that the committee needs to see the full report, as well as the underlying evidence, in order to determine any further action they may choose to take against the president or his associates.

"My Committee needs and is entitled to the full version of the report and the underlying evidence consistent with past practice," he said in a statement. "The redactions appear to be significant. We have so far seen none of the actual evidence that the Special Counsel developed to make this case. Even the redacted version of the report outlines serious instances of wrongdoing by President Trump and some of his closest associates. It now falls to Congress to determine the full scope of the alleged misconduct and to decide what steps we must take going forward."

Nadler is requesting the information on May 1, a day before Barr is set to appear before the House Judiciary Committee. If the Justice Department doesn't respond, Democrats could hold officials in contempt of Congress or fight it out in court. Nadler's committee also holds the power to launch impeachment proceedings, something that a number of House Democrats and 2020 presidential hopefuls have indicated they may support.

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Republicans immediately pushed back on Nadler's demand. Ranking Member Doug Collins, R-Ga., accused him of "rushing to subpoena material" and of disregarding "good faith transparency without even taking the department up on its offer to review material under the redactions."

"As a result, today's subpoena is wildly overbroad," he said. "It commands the department to provide Congress with millions of records that would be plainly against the law to share because the vast majority of these documents came as a result of nearly 2,800 subpoenas from a grand jury that is still ongoing."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler issues a subpoena to the Justice Department for, by May 1, the full, unredacted version of the Mueller Report, and for the underlying grand jury evidence and testimony. Attorney General William Barr's offer to allow committee members a chance to view a less-redacted version of the report does not meet the committee's needs and was not accepted.