Special counsel Robert Mueller will not deliver a report to the attorney general next week, as was previously reported by multiple outlets, a senior Department of Justice official told NBC News on Friday.
Attorney General William Barr was preparing to announce the completion of Mueller’s investigation into any links between President Donald Trump and Russia as soon as next week, CNN reported Wednesday. The outlet reported that those plans were subject to change.
Democratic lawmakers have demanded that Mueller’s findings be made public.
Earlier Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., reiterated that call. She said that Mueller’s potential report concerned matters that had “implications for the rule of law and stability of our democracy” and that they “cannot be hidden away.”
“A summary written by Attorney General Barr in place of the Mueller report will not be acceptable,” Feinstein said.
The president said Friday that he had not discussed the release of the report with Barr. Earlier in the week he said he would let Barr determine whether the report would be released.
The Department of Justice regulations that apply to Mueller’s work require him to provide the attorney general with “a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions” reached during the course of the investigation. The regulations neither require nor forbid Barr from making that report public.
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