U.S. special prosecutor Robert Mueller will testify before Congress on July 17 to answer questions from lawmakers about his investigation of the so-called Russian plot, Democratic lawmakers confirmed.
The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Nadler, and Adam Schuff, who heads the House Intel Committee, said in a joint statement that the special prosecutor agreed to testify on the report of the Russian plot he submitted in April. The Justice Department declined to comment on this.
Both commissions have negotiated with Mueller for more than two months about his testimony, but he had been hesitant to testify about the investigation beyond the public statement he issued in May.
The report presented by Mueller determined that there is no evidence of links between the electoral team of current President Donald Trump and the Kremlin in relation to the 2016 presidential elections, but did not raise a conclusion on a possible crime of obstruction of justice by part of the president.
“The Americans have asked to hear directly from the prosecutor in order to understand what he and his team examined, uncovered and determined about Russia’s attacks on our democracy,” as well as its relationship with President Trump’s campaign, said the statement issued by both committees.
Mueller investigated for nearly two years the alleged links between Trump’s electoral team and the Kremlin, a survey that ended at the end of last March.
A month ago, before the calls of the democrats to go to Congress, Mueller said he had made the decision not to testify “voluntarily” in the Legislative.
“I have voluntarily decided not to testify before Congress because I have nothing to say beyond what is (written) in my report,” Mueller said in a statement read in the Department of Justice in one of his few media appearances.
Mueller said he did not think it was “appropriate” to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, an idea that Democrats have insisted since Attorney General William Barr delivered a four-page document to Congress on key findings. of the report of the Russian plot.
“The report is my testimony,” said Mueller.
Both Trump and Barr had opposed Mueller’s testimony before Congress.
