Rep. Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffPelosi, Democrats unveil bills to rein in alleged White House abuses of power Chris Matthews ripped for complimenting Trump's 'true presidential behavior' on Ginsburg Trump casts doubt on Ginsburg statement, wonders if it was written by Schiff, Pelosi or Schumer MORE (D-Calif.), the likely incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says Democrats will subpoena 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 if President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE tries to invoke executive privilege to keep it secret.

“I'm prepared to make sure we do everything possible so that the public has the advantage of as much of the information as it can,” Schiff said on CNN's “State of the Union.”

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Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for the president and a leading spokesman for his legal team, in September predicted that Trump may object to Mueller’s report being released to the public, arguing it could violate executive privilege.

Schiff on Sunday said parts of the report may have to be held back, but argued that the public deserves to have access to it.

“We ought to make sure this report is public. Now, there may be parts of the report that have to be redacted because they involve classified information or they involve grand jury material,” he said.

Schiff argued that the Justice Department has set an important precedent by making public findings from its investigation into Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of State.

“For the last two years, I have been warning the Justice Department, as they have been turning over tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of pages of investigative files in the Clinton email investigation, that whatever precedent they were going to set, they were going to have to live by,” he said.

“When the Mueller investigation is over, they're not going to be in a position to say, 'we're not going to provide information to Congress about this investigation,' ” he said.

Schiff said the Justice Department has already decided “the precedent they’re going to live by” and added “this case is just too important to keep from the American people.”

Any effort to keep Mueller’s report secret would also spur opposition from Senate Republicans, who have argued for months that the special counsel should be able to complete his work.

Sen. John Kennedy John Neely KennedyMORE (La.), a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, earlier this year called for the report’s findings to be communicated to the American public.

“I want him to report to the American people, give them the facts. The American people are smart enough to figure it out,” Kennedy said on “Fox News Sunday” this summer.