Rep. Jerrold Nadler hinted on Wednesday that he won’t immediately issue a subpoena to force Attorney General William Barr to release the full Mueller report.

In his opening statements at a hearing to discuss the subpoenas, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee noted that he’s asked Barr “to work with us” but that “he has so far refused.”

“I will give him time to change his mind,” Nadler said. “If we cannot reach an accommodation, we will have no choice but to issue subpoenas for these materials. And if the department still refuses, then it should be up to a judge — not the president and not his political appointee — to decide whether or not it is appropriate for the committee to review the complete record.”

Nadler’s remarks came ahead of the committee’s anticipated vote to authorize the subpoena demanding that Barr release special counsel Robert Mueller’s full, unredacted 400-page report.

Barr has said he plans to publicly release the report with redactions later this month.

“This committee has a job to do,” Nadler said. “That job requires us to evaluate the evidence for ourselves — not the attorney general’s summary, not a substantially redacted synopsis, but the full report and the underlying evidence.”

The vote has been vehemently opposed by GOP Rep. Doug Collins, who said authorizing the subpoena would mean asking the attorney general to “break his regulations, to break the law.”