Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, says he is prepared to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report should President Trump try to keep the findings under wraps.
“I'm prepared to make sure we do everything possible so that the public has the advantage of as much of the information as it can,” Schiff said on CNN's “State of the Union.”
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for the president and a leading spokesman for his legal team, in September predicted that Trump may object to Mueller’s report being released to the public, arguing it could violate executive privilege.
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“We ought to make sure this report is public. Now, there may be parts of the report that have to be redacted because they involve classified information or they involve grand jury material,” [Schiff] said.
Schiff noted that congressional Republicans who have been insisting the Justice Department turn over documents related to the Hillary Clinton private email server investigation have made it clear what they believe the public should see and will have to abide by that standard going forward.
“For the last two years, I have been warning the Justice Department, as they have been turning over tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of pages of investigative files in the Clinton email investigation, that whatever precedent they were going to set, they were going to have to live by,” he said.
“When the Mueller investigation is over, they're not going to be in a position to say, 'we're not going to provide information to Congress about this investigation,' ” he said.
Schiff: Democrats will subpoena Mueller report if Trump tries to hide it (The Hill)