Republican Rep. Will Hurd William Ballard HurdHillicon Valley: Oracle confirms deal with TikTok to be 'trusted technology provider' | QAnon spreads across globe, shadowing COVID-19 | VA hit by data breach impacting 46,000 veterans House approves bill to secure internet-connected federal devices against cyber threats House Democrats' campaign arm reserves .6M in ads in competitive districts MORE (Texas) on Friday said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE should testify before Congress on the findings of his investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference.

Hurd, in an appearance on CNN, said Mueller testifying could “settle things.”

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“We’re talking about a report, one dude’s opinion of a report written by another dude. Let's have that dude that wrote the report come to Congress and talk about that and people get to ask him questions,” Hurd said. “And then, again, we should be talking about this disinformation strategy and how to deal with it in the future.”

“You may be the first person who's ever called Robert Mueller a dude,” Berman said.

“No disrespect to the attorney general or Bob Mueller,” Hurd responded.

Republican Rep. Will Hurd says special counsel Robert Mueller should testify before Congress: “Let's have that dude that wrote the report come to Congress and talk about that” pic.twitter.com/7hdRJNVOEc — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 10, 2019

Hurd’s comments come as President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE has given various answers when asked whether Mueller should testify; most recently, he said it was up to Attorney General William Barr Bill BarrHarris faces pivotal moment with Supreme Court battle Hillicon Valley: DOJ proposes tech liability shield reform to Congress | Treasury sanctions individuals, groups tied to Russian malign influence activities | House Republican introduces bill to set standards for self-driving cars McCarthy threatens motion to oust Pelosi if she moves forward with impeachment MORE to decide.

Some other House Republicans, including Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), have previously called on Mueller to testify “immediately.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, initially indicated that he wouldn’t ask Mueller to testify, saying that the matter was “over.”

But he later sent a letter to Mueller asking if he would like to testify about any “misrepresentation” about a phone call he had with Barr after the four-page memo was released.

CNN host John Berman pressed Hurd about a subpoena issued to the Justice Department by the House Intelligence Committee this week for all counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials related to the Mueller report and whether he thinks the agency should be held in contempt if it fails to comply.

“The contempt question, I think, we’re ways away from that,” Hurd said. “I think that this is a good sign that there’s bipartisan support on trying to get to uncover this information and why is this important.”

“Part of this is to get a better understanding of what the Russians were trying to do in our elections so that we can prepare for it in the future,” Hurd said, so “that we can make sure that our intelligence services are doing what they need in order to collect information to prevent this from happening in the future.”

Updated at 9:35 a.m.