(CBS News)- Attorney General William Barr hopes to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, with redactions, “within a week,” he told members of a House Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday.
Barr had said he expects to release the full report by mid-April, after releasing a four-page summary of Mueller’s report that Democrats deemed unsatisfactory. The attorney general, however, is reluctant to get into details of the report, and he’s on Capitol Hill ostensibly to testify about the Justice Department’s budget.
Here’s what the public has learned so far from Tuesday’s hearing:
- Barr says he met with Mueller on March 5, so the “thinking” of the special counsel wasn’t a mystery to him when he received the report to summarize it;
- The report will include redactions that are color-coded, to indicate the reason the information was redacted;
- Barr declined to say whether he has briefed the White House on the report or allowed the White House to see any of the report;
- Barr isn’t committing to releasing an unredacted version of the report to Congress;
- Barr says Mueller declined to review Barr’s summary of the report before releasing the summary to the public.