Robert Mueller’s report is finally released by the Department of Justice

Former Trump presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will testify about the Mueller report before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday in what’s sure to be a circus of a hearing. (It begins at 1 pm ET and you can watch it at this link, or right here.)

Lewandowski will be pressed about an episode special counsel Robert Mueller outlined in which President Trump met with him and tried to get him to deliver a message to Attorney General Jeff Sessions — a message aimed at getting Sessions to reverse his recusal and rein in Mueller’s probe.

The constituents of Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash — the sole Republican lawmaker to call for impeachment of President Donald Trump, criticizing his own party in the process — proved his point in a town hall this week.

Amash didn’t have to just defend his call to begin impeachment proceedings against the president when facing voters in Grand Rapids for the first time since he made that call in a viral tweet thread earlier this month; he also had to explain why he was talking about it in the first place.

Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash thinks President Donald Trump’s conduct in office is impeachable, that Attorney General William Barr knowingly misled the public about the conclusions in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and that his Republican colleagues in Congress are turning a blind eye to it all.

“Contrary to Barr’s portrayal, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” Amash tweeted in a lengthy thread Saturday, becoming the first and only congressional Republican to argue that the FBI investigation into Trump’s campaign and its alleged connection to Russian officials established grounds for impeachment. While several prominent Democrats have also called for impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly sidestepped the issue, instead calling for more investigations.

Robert Mueller would have testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday if Democrats on the committee had gotten their way. But as the committee tries to set a hearing date with the special counsel, a poll has found they have public opinion on their side.

Fifty-six percent of all voters want Congress to hear from Mueller, while only 19 percent think he shouldn’t testify, according to a new Morning Consult and Politico poll that was conducted among 1,995 registered voters. There was a prominent partisan divide: 79 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents said that he should testify, while only 37 percent of Republicans agreed.

An escalating subpoena war between the executive and legislative branches has Democrats fearful that the Trump administration may try to prevent special counsel Robert Mueller from testifying in front of Congress.

Mueller tentatively agreed to a May 15 hearing date at the invitation of the House Judiciary Committee — but he won’t be testifying in the coming week, committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told reporters on Friday. For the past few weeks, Attorney General William Barr has said publicly he has no objection. But in recent days, President Donald Trump has gone from saying it’s up to Barr to decide to declaring via tweet that “Bob Mueller should not testify.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday celebrating the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference amounted to a stunning display of shamelessness.

As part of Republicans’ broader effort to turn the page on the Mueller investigation as quickly as possible and portray Democrats who are unwilling to do as just out to get President Donald Trump, McConnell tried to shift blame onto the previous president. But in so doing, he completely absolved Trump — not to mention himself — from any share of responsibility.

Hours after it was revealed special counsel Robert Mueller objected to Attorney General Bill Barr’s portrayal of his final report, Barr headed to Capitol Hill for his first congressional testimony since the report’s release.

Unsurprisingly, Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a contentious affair. Many Senate Democrats tried to score some political points, but they also identified tangible frustrations the public has had with Barr’s rollout of the report.

Attorney General William Barr is refusing to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, according to multiple reports. It’s the latest escalation of tensions between the White House and congressional Democrats.

Barr had been scheduled to appear in front of the House for weeks, and testified in front of the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. But he abruptly canceled his appearance in the Democrat-controlled House after the committee voted along party lines to let staff lawyers question Barr for an extra hour after members of Congress did.

House Democrats may be torn up about how to target Trump in the wake of the Mueller report, but Senate Republicans are relatively united: They’re ready to put this whole thing behind them.

While Democrats continue to argue over impeachment, Republicans are as determined as ever to shield the president from further scrutiny. As Vox’s Tara Golshan has written, they were prepared to defend the president even before the report came out — and that certainly hasn’t changed much now that it has.

Attorney General William Barr’s opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee was released late Tuesday, just hours before Barr is set to appear before lawmakers to discuss his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Barr’s statement also came out right after the Washington Post and New York Times published reports revealing that Mueller had written a letter to Barr criticizing aspects of the attorney general’s initial four-page letter outlining the “principal conclusions” of the Mueller report ahead of the release of the special counsel’s full findings. In that letter, Mueller reportedly wrote that Barr’s summary “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the full report.

It turns out that special counsel Robert Mueller was just as upset with Attorney General William Barr’s characterization of the Trump-Russia report — and the ensuing public discussion — as many Americans were.

On March 24, Barr released his four-page summary of the special counsel’s report in which he said Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. And while Mueller didn’t absolve President Donald Trump of an obstruction of justice charge, Barr did, saying he didn’t think the evidence the special counsel’s team provided met that standard.

Attorney General William Barr is threatening to skip a House Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Thursday at which he is expected to testify about special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and his handling of the investigation.

It’s the latest standoff in an ongoing battle between House Democrats and the Trump administration over Congress’s oversight powers. The White House is vigorously fighting Democrats’ attempts to subpoena documents and compel testimony — and this showdown between Barr and House Democrats hints that neither side is eager to cede any ground.

Attorney General Bill Barr finally released Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report on Thursday, reasserting his position that the special counsel found no evidence of collusion or the basis for an obstruction of justice charge.

But the actual report is quite damning. It establishes, among other things, a clear fact pattern showing repeated connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. It also outlines 10 potential instances of obstruction of justice that suggest, at the very least, that President Trump actively sought to undermine Mueller’s investigation.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is signing up to impeach President Donald Trump in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

In a series of tweets on Thursday after the report was released, the first-term Democrat said she would sign on to an impeachment resolution introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and called on Congress to investigate potential obstruction of justice by the president.

House Democrats want to see special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report, and they don’t plan to settle for the redacted version released to Congress and the public by Attorney General William Barr.

On Friday morning, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said his committee has subpoenaed the US Justice Department to get the Mueller report in its entirety, and said the department must comply by May 1. Nadler was supposed to be among the select number of senior House and Senate Committee members who Barr promised would receive nearly full access to Mueller’s report, minus information from the grand jury. But Nadler said it hadn’t even been made available to him as of Thursday afternoon.

The most generous reading of Robert Mueller’s report, the one pushed by President Donald Trump’s own defenders, is, in fact, profoundly damning. Here’s how Attorney General William Barr explained the president’s actions:

The story the report tells is that a foreign government illegally interfered in America’s presidential election on Trump’s behalf, and rather than treating that incursion as an attack on America’s political institutions, Trump treated it transactionally, as a gift to him personally.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report is a copiously detailed chronicle of shady conduct from Donald Trump and his associates, from the campaign through to the White House.

Mueller makes clear that his investigation did not establish that there was a conspiracy between Trump associates and the Russian government to interfere with the election. And the special counsel doesn’t say one way or the other whether he thinks President Trump criminally obstructed justice while in office — though he makes clear he thinks the evidence of that is quite concerning.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on President Trump’s ties to Russia is out, after what felt like an eternity of waiting. Of course, the report is massive — 400 pages, roughly — and hard to get through quickly. So what do its findings ultimately mean for President Trump, his top aides, and all the other players in the long-running Russia saga?

Well, we here at Vox have been combing through the report to answer those questions. And there’s a lot in there, things that shed light on questions ranging from whether the president committed obstruction (quite possibly) to why Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting at Trump Tower wasn’t illegal (Junior is too ignorant, more or less) to whether the media bungled this entire story (no, surprisingly!).

Donald Trump lies all the time, and his administration officials often end up lying on this behalf.

We know this. We’ve known this since the day after his inauguration, when then-press secretary Sean Spicer gave an angry press conference insisting that Trump had record crowds to watch him get sworn in.