DPCC Co-Chair Jeffries: House Democrats Will Fight to Protect the Mueller Report from Republican Interference

November 8, 2018
Press Release

The American People Should See the Report

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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), appeared on Hardballwith Chris Matthews on MSNBC to discuss how House Democrats will protect Mueller's report and will serve as a check and balance on Donald Trump. Below are excerpts from the interview. Click here to watch the video.

"The American people are beginning to stop him, and I think that's one of the things that happened last night in giving us control of the House of Representatives. And, if his ultimate objective is to try to prevent Mueller's investigative report from becoming public, he obviously fails to understand that on January 3rd, when we take control of the House of Representatives, we will have oversight and subpoena power and will not allow him to bury any report and/or hide the facts from the American people."

"It's not clear that he's concluded in terms of indictments moving forward. There was definitely a pause as a result of the window inside of the election and we are now outside of that window. And I think that that investigation will continue and we are likely see some more people held accountable. The law does provide that ultimately he does have to issue a report only to the Department of Justice, not to the American people, because the independent counsel has expired. That's why it was so important for us to take back control of the House of Representatives on the oversight responsibility, because we can prevent them from burying that report."

"Well, we are not going to go down that road right now. We have to allow the process to play itself out. But, I think the good men and women of the Department of Justice and the FBI won't allow the type of shenanigans that he may try to undertake to go forward without it being exposed and now they have an empowered House of Representatives."

"It is their boss. But, they also know that we have a constitutional responsibility to be a check and balance on an out of control Executive and the cover-up caucus that had been in charge of the House of Representatives for the last two years is no longer in the majority."