Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Washington DC, June 26: United States special counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled on July 17 to testify before the House of Representatives judiciary and intelligence committee in an open session, the council’s chairman has on Tuesday said.

Mueller has issued a 448-page report on Russian meddling in the US 2016 presidential election in April, which found Moscow meddled in the 2016 election and also President Donald Trump’s election campaign had several contacts with the Russian officials.

However, there were insufficient shreds of evidence to generate a criminal conspiracy between Moscow and Trump’s 2016 campaign.

According to Reuters news reports, the judiciary panel chairman Representative Jerrold Nadler and the head of the intelligence community, Representative Adam Schiff, in a joint statement stated Muller agreed to testify before the House after subpoenas issued by the two committees on Tuesday.

“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,” Nadler and Schiff said in their statement.

However, a representative for the special counsel didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The less redacted report releases outlined instances where Trump tried to interfere with the probe proceedings of Mueller but, refused to make any judgment over whether that amounted to obstruction of justice.

On May 29 during his first public interaction since the beginning of the two-year probe, Mueller said his investigation would to ever end with criminal charges against the US president and hinted the US Congress to decide the future on impeachment.

“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Mueller said. “We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.”

Representative Doug Collins on the House judiciary hopes the special counsel’s testimony marks an end to the political turmoil.
In his May 29 statement, Mueller said his office was shutting its door and that he was now going back to normal life as a private citizen. While saying he would not discuss beyond the reports released, Mueller said, “Beyond what I’ve said here today and what is contained in our written work, I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further.”

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