MSNBC anchor Yasmin Vossoughian on Tuesday compared actor Jussie Smollett's charges being dropped to 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 conclusion that there was not enough evidence to charge 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 with committing a crime in his years-long Russia investigation.

“It seems like a lot of people are being exonerated and a lot of records not being shared with the public. Just saying," Vossoughian said, after discussing the Smollett case on air.

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Her comments came after news that Smollett had been cleared of all 16 felony charges against him, which included disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false report after he informed Chicago police he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in January.

The anchor brought in MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos to discuss why the charges had been dropped to ask why the public record on Smollett was being wiped clean.

“The actual case investigative file may live on in paper form somewhere in the catacombs of the district attorney’s office or the police department," Cevallos said. "But yes, in terms of publicly available information, at least for the short term, that’s all that will be available to us: It is the story that Jussie Smollett tells us.”

Trump touted the news shortly afterward, claiming the summary was a "complete and total exoneration" of him.

Democrats have been urging Barr to release the full Mueller report since he presented the four-page summary on Sunday.

A new Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday shows 84 percent of those polled want the Mueller report to be made public. That sentiment is shared by 75 percent of Republicans.

Smollett originally claimed that on Jan. 29 that he was attacked at 2 a.m. in subzero weather on a street near his apartment in Chicago. Smollett said the attackers yelled "This is MAGA country!" while pouring a chemical on Smollett and attempting to tie a rope around his neck.

He was indicted six weeks later on March 8 on 16 felony counts by a Cook County grand jury after police said he lied about the attack.