Mueller to testify

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would call former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before his panel about the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and ties to the Trump campaign. The announcement, part of an electionyear bid by Senate Republicans to discredit the inquiry, came after Mueller broke a nearly year-long silence on Sunday in an op-ed for The Washington Post in which he defended his office’s prosecution of Roger Stone and its broader investigation. President Donald Trump brought the investigation, which consumed much of his early presidency, to the fore again when he commuted Stone’s sentence on Saturday, and the White House issued a statement denouncing Mueller’s investigation and the “overzealous prosecutors” who convicted Stone.