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Barr to hold Thursday press conference on Mueller report | TheHill

posted onApril 18, 2019
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Article snippet: Attorney General MORE’s report, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. Both Barr and Deputy Attorney General MORE, who previously oversaw the Mueller probe, will be at the press conference, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. A DOJ spokesperson said earlier this week that Mueller’s redacted report would be released Thursday morning. MORE also said Wednesday that Barr would be holding a press conference and that he also might hold his own conference. The release of Mueller's report is highly anticipated, as it's expected to include the special counsel's findings during the course of his 22 month investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. Barr said in a letter to Congress last month that Mueller determined that there was no coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, but that the special counsel did not reach such a conclusion on obstruction of justice. Rather, Barr said, Mueller laid out the evidence for both sides of an obstruction charge. The attorney general said he and Rosenstein determined that the evidence was not sufficient to bring forward such a charge against Trump. That evidence is likely to be seized upon by Democrats in Congress, some of whom have argued that Barr should not have been the one to decide against charging the president with obstruction. But the report is also expected to be heavily redacted, as Barr has said he will not include some information, such as grand jury materials, in the public v... Link to the full article to read more

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