What Are Politicians Saying About the Mueller Report? What Do You Have to Say?

Politicians and pundits from across the political spectrum are reacting to special counsel Robert Muller's report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

First read what Mueller had to say in on our live coverage.

The White House

• President Donald Trump opened the day tweeting out a series of "no collusion" videos and images:

• Trump's legal team is calling the report "a total victory for the president," according a statement they released Thursday.

"After a 17-month investigation, testimony from some 500 witnesses, the issuance of 2,800 subpoenas, the execution of nearly 500 search warrants, early morning raids, the examination of more than 1.4 million pages of documents, and the unprecedented cooperation of the President, it is clear there was no criminal wrongdoing."

Democrats

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued a joint statement following the release of the report, in which they castigate Attorney General William Barr.

• Some are saying the redacted report isn't enough. Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, the Democratic Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, will be issuing a subpoena for the full, unredacted Mueller report.

• Some Democrats are calling on Barr to resign.

Republicans

• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) praised the “sterling reputations” of Attorney General William Barr, Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, and special counsel Robert Mueller.

"You could not have asked for more objective individuals to be involved in this process, that we’ve all heard about on a virtual daily basis for two long years. I don’t want you to buy any notions that somehow these people are political hacks. They’ve never run for anything, they have sterling reputations."

• "Democrats want to keep searching for imaginary evidence that supports their claims, but it is simply not there," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said in a statement.

• The House's No. 2 Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), added that Democrats "ought to apologize to the American people."
• Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), a Trump ally on Capitol Hill, said Mueller's findings should put the nail in the coffin of any Congressional investigations.

“Prosecutors have one job, and that’s to prosecute and indict...And if Bob Mueller in two-and-a-half years of investigation — which includes both the FBI and special prosecutor’s time — doesn’t bring charges, I don’t know how much longer we need to be talking about collusion and obstruction.”

What do you say?

Now that you know what they're saying, what do you have to say? Take action and say it to your reps, then share your thoughts below.

—Josh Herman

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