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Mueller will testify in front of Congress
WASHINGTON – Former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify publicly before two key House committees after being subpoenaed, top Democratic lawmakers announced.
Mueller will testify in open session before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on July 17.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said in a statement Tuesday evening that Mueller agreed to testify after they issued a subpoena.
“Americans have demanded to hear directly from the Special Counsel so they can understand what he and his team examined, uncovered, and determined about Russia’s attack on our democracy, the Trump campaign’s acceptance and use of that help, and President Trump and his associates’ obstruction of the investigation into that attack,” the two said in a statement.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DCalif., praised Mueller’s decision to testify before the two House panels.
Mueller’s investigation, according to its final report submitted to the attorney general in April, documented Moscow’s “sweeping and systematic” effort in the 2016 election aimed in part at helping Trump win the presidency and a Trump campaign that welcomed the assistance, but it did not find a conspiracy between the two. It also traced steps Trump took after becoming the president to stymie the investigation looming over his administration, though Mueller declined to say whether those acts were illegal.
Trump has repeatedly called the Russia investigation a “witch hunt.”