Sen. Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamSenate GOP aims to confirm Trump court pick by Oct. 29: report The Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set to ask SCOTUS to limit mail-in voting Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot MORE (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a resolute ally of President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE, said Wednesday that he discussed 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's report with the president and Trump told him to “just release it.”

Graham told CNN that the president was unlikely to invoke executive privilege to hide any of Mueller’s findings, which is an option Democrats have warned they would oppose.

After dinner with the Attorney General ⁦@LindseyGrahamSC⁩ says he thinks the Mueller report will be released sometime in April and says the President isn’t going to claim executive privilege over any of it. “He said just release it.” pic.twitter.com/xujhw89QN5 — Kate Bolduan (@KateBolduan) March 27, 2019

Graham also said Wednesday he expects Congress will be able to see Mueller’s final report in April.

Graham told the Associated Press that Attorney General William Barr Bill BarrProsecutor says no charges in Michigan toilet voting display Judge rules Snowden to give up millions from book, speeches The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Washington on edge amid SCOTUS vacancy MORE said the report could be released next month and that he would be willing to testify in front of Graham’s panel.

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Barr’s timeline matches up with comments from several Justice Department officials who said Mueller’s final conclusions could be sent to Congress within “weeks, not months.”

House Democrats, however, have expressed impatience with the delay, calling on a swifter turnaround from Barr. Six House committee chairs sent a letter to the attorney general Monday demanding he provide Congress with Mueller’s full report and underlying evidence of his findings by Tuesday.

“Your four-page summary of the Special Counsel’s review is not sufficient for Congress, as a coequal branch of government, to perform this critical work. The release of the full report and the underlying evidence and documents is urgently needed by our committees to perform their duties under the Constitution,” they wrote.

Graham said Barr is working through the report to ensure that any grand jury material and classified information would not be made available.

Mueller in his report concluded that there was no collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, according to a summary Barr provided to Congress on Sunday. Though Mueller did not exonerate the president over allegations of obstruction of justice and declined to weigh in on whether charges should be applied, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod RosensteinDOJ kept investigators from completing probe of Trump ties to Russia: report Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report FBI officials hid copies of Russia probe documents fearing Trump interference: book MORE said no charges would be brought against Trump after reviewing Mueller’s underlying evidence. Democrats have called for that evidence to be released along with the full report.