House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said the attorney general revealed to him the length of Mueller’s report — which Nadler described as “very substantial.” | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Congress Nadler ‘disturbed’ that Barr won’t commit to providing full Mueller report The House Judiciary chairman says the attorney general is likely to miss the April 2 deadline set by Democrats.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), said Wednesday that Attorney General William Barr would not commit to turning over special counsel Robert Mueller’s entire report on Russian links to the Trump campaign — and would almost certainly miss an April 2 deadline set by House Democrats.

“I’m very disturbed by that,” Nadler told reporters at the Capitol.


“He wouldn’t commit to that,” Nadler continued.

Nadler declined to say whether he intended to subpoena the Justice Department for the report, but said that he considered April 2 a “hard deadline” and that “we mean it.”

Nadler, who described his exchange with Barr in a 10-minute phone call Wednesday afternoon, said the attorney general revealed to him the length of Mueller’s report — which Nadler described as “very substantial.” But Nadler declined to disclose its length, saying he wasn’t explicitly authorized to disclose it. Pressed on whether he considered “very substantial” to be fewer than 1,000 pages, Nadler said, “I would think so.”

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Nadler also said that Barr intended to testify to the House Judiciary Committee “reasonably soon” and that the committee might want Mueller to testify after that.

“That’s a decision we’ll have to make when we know more,” he said.

Nadler also noted that he didn’t discuss with Barr whether Mueller’s report includes a counterintelligence component.

Democrats are demanding access to Mueller’s complete findings and underlying evidence, and they’ve bristled at Barr for providing a four-page summary, which Nadler called insufficient to capture Mueller’s 22 months of work. In his summary, Barr revealed that Mueller would not recommend any indictment of Americans for conspiring with Russians to interfere in the 2016 elections, and Barr also absolved Trump of a potential obstruction of justice charge, despite revealing that Mueller did not make a recommendation on the matter.