During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” House Oversight Committee member Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that information about members of President Trump’s staff in the Mueller report shouldn’t be redacted.
Host Anderson Cooper asked, “There are four categories that Barr has said he will use in terms of what to redact, and one of them is about third parties, and it’s not clear exactly what he means by that. I mean, he said it doesn’t apply to the president. Do you think it possibly applies to members of the president’s staff?”
Khanna answered, “Well, it shouldn’t. And Barr has not been transparent in this whole process. I mean, ordinarily, an attorney general would sit down with Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and one of the Republicans in Congress and come to an agreement about what should be redacted and what shouldn’t be redacted, and he hasn’t followed any of that. And so, what we now need to do is see the report, see what the redactions are, see if they are fair, and then push to see more if he has not been transparent.”
Khanna later added that while every member of Congress should be able to see the report, they don’t need to, and Barr should at least share the report privately with the heads of crucial committees and key members of leadership.
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