Congress Nunes: 'I want everything that Mueller did made public'

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes called Friday for full transparency from special counsel Robert Mueller if his final report on Russian election interference is made public, demanding that any release include every piece of evidence that Mueller used to compile the report.

The California Republican, in an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference alongside Tom Fitton, president of the right-wing activist group Judicial Watch, prefaced his proposal by saying he doesn’t believe “Mueller has any report to put out that would be worthwhile, with anything new.”


But, the California Republican said, “If he does put out a report, you're gonna see people claiming, 'Oh we have to have this public, it's got to be made public.' That's fine. But I want everything that Mueller did made public. I want email, I want everybody that they wiretapped, every warrant that they got, every single thing that Mueller used needs to be made public for all of America to see."

He contextualized his argument by saying that he didn’t necessarily disagree with Fitton, who had just told the audience that “this Justice Department has no business writing reports on the president’s conduct as president.”

Fitton claimed without evidence that Mueller’s investigators are “anti-Trumpers,” saying they don’t need to be writing “another shady dossier.”

The release of Mueller’s final report on his nearly two-year investigation has been the subject of intense speculation in recent weeks.

Some media outlets reported that Attorney General William Barr would announce the conclusion of the special counsel's investigation as early as this week, and that Barr could send a summary report to Congress soon thereafter.

The conclusion of the investigation will likely spark a clash in Congress, where many Democrats are calling for the full report to be made public, and the Justice Department, where Barr has been noncommittal about doing so. Democrats warned they could subpoena Mueller or for the report itself.

While Nunes on Friday said he wanted all of Mueller’s evidence disclosed, he seemed to acknowledge that the Justice Department probably wouldn't do so willingly, based on its reluctance to meet Nunes' previous demands to declassify certain documents in the probe.

“I think the White House is going to ultimately have to get involved in declassifying all documents,” he said.

Nunes oversaw the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation as chairman in the last Congress, an investigation that fell apart amid partisan bickering on the committee.

He has frequently taken up Trump's mantle on the committee, arguing that the federal Russia investigation has been tainted by anti-Trump bias within the Justice Department and calling for the declassification of documents pertaining to the surveillance of Trump campaign aides.