President Donald Trump is pledging to make public foreign surveillance warrants associated with the probe into possible links between his election campaign and the Kremlin, asserting that the FBI officials behind the inquiry "committed treason."

"I do, I have plans to declassify and release. I have plans to absolutely release," Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night.

The comments came during the president's first interview since Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Mueller and a team of federal prosecutors, working largely in secret for nearly two years, concluded that while Russia's government had sought to disrupt the election, they "did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," according to a four-page summary of the report by Attorney General William Barr.

Barr defined coordination as an "agreement – tacit or express – between the Trump campaign and the Russian government on election interference."

Trump and his allies in Congress have trumpeted the findings, with the president telling reporters Friday that the report amounted to "complete and total exoneration." The president doubled down on the comments Wednesday, telling Hannity that the Mueller investigation amounted to "an attempted takeover of our government, of our country, an illegal takeover."

Trump throughout the investigation had called it a "witch hunt" and a "hoax," and he and Republican lawmakers during the investigation had sought to focus attention instead on what they alleged were abuses of foreign surveillance practices.

The FBI in July 2018 released the FISA warrant for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Contrary to what Republican lawmakers had claimed, the redacted document indicated that the FBI had informed the judge who approved the warrant that some of the information that agents relied on had come from an unverified dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, as well as from other sources, and that those who produced the document had an interest in discrediting Trump.

Barr was not expected to meet an April 2 deadline from House Democrats to share the full report with lawmakers. He has declined to commit to release the full report, despite support from the White House to do so, as well as public calls from Democrats and some Republicans, and a large majority of Americans.

Though Mueller's investigation has concluded, other investigations – either sparked by or started in parallel with the Mueller probe – are expected to continue in U.S. attorneys' offices, state prosecutors' offices and in Congress.

