Sen. Marco Rubio Marco Antonio RubioOvernight Defense: Pentagon redirects pandemic funding to defense contractors | US planning for full Afghanistan withdrawal by May | Anti-Trump GOP group puts ads in military papers Democrats step up hardball tactics as Supreme Court fight heats up Press: Notorious RBG vs Notorious GOP MORE (R-Fla.) said Sunday that he wants to see 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 full report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including information on the basis for the probe.

"I want to see all of it. What was the underlying criminal predicate for the entire investigation? Let’s see the FISA applications," Rubio said on NBC's "Meet the Press," referencing surveillance applications that have been a subject of scrutiny among Republican lawmakers.

"Let’s see all of that," he added. "Let’s put all of that out there as well so we can pass judgment about how the investigation was conducted or at least the predicate for the investigation was conducted during the Obama years."

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Marco Rubio says he would like to see the Special Counsel's report in full, including the parts of the report that pre-date the Trump Administration #MTP #IfItsSunday@marcorubio: "Absolutely, I want to see all of it" pic.twitter.com/KknmzENMZB — Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) March 24, 2019

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The special counsel submitted his final report to Attorney General William Barr on Friday evening, signaling the end of the nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Barr is expected to brief Congress on the report’s main findings in the coming days and could do so as early as Sunday. The attorney general has previously committed to releasing as much of the report as possible under the law, but Democrats and some Republicans have been insistent that the full document be made public.

Rubio said Sunday that he believes the report will ultimately become public, with some baseline caveats.

"I would suspect that at the end of the day they are going to release the report," he said. "They’re going to redact intelligence information or classified information, and they’re not going to put things in there about people that is damaging to people that they chose not to prosecute.

"But that’s not unique to the president, that is the way the Justice Department handles every case," he added.

Some Democrats have expressed concerns that the White House might attempt to assert executive privilege to block certain parts of Mueller's report from going public.

Rubio said some issues, like information that could reference internal administration deliberations, are valid to protect, but that he "would certainly ask the president to lean toward transparency."