Attorney General Barr Says Mueller Report Won't Be Shared With White House for Review, Should be Released 'Mid-April'

Attorney General Barr Says Mueller Report Won't Be Shared With White House for Review, Should be Released 'Mid-April'

Attorney General William Barr said Friday that he will not be giving the full Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 election to the White House for review before it is given to Congress.

Barr has released a four-page letter detailing the principal conclusions of the highly-anticipated report, but has come under pressure from Democrats to release the full document.

In the letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham and Congressman Jerold Nadler, he said expects to release the report, which is some 400 pages, by mid-April, "if not sooner."

The new letter to Congress also says that the DOJ is currently in the process of making redactions to Mueller's report before its release.

The letter says that Justice Department officials are redacting grand jury material, information legally blocked from public release, information that could compromise intelligence sources and methods, and any "information that would unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.”

Barr said in the letter he is available to testify to Congress on May 1 and 2.