Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

The Fight for the Mueller Report Could Get Ugly Fast

Trump himself could be the tiebreaker in the brewing battle between Bill Barr and Jerry Nadler.

April 3, 2019 at 4:58 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

This may become a battleground.
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Get out your popcorn. Or settle in for a long, drawn-out legal battle.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee gave Representative Jerrold Nadler some muscle Wednesday in the ongoing tug of war over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report. Nadler now has the power, if he chooses, to subpoena the Justice Department and require it to turn over a 400-page report detailing what Mueller discovered when he investigated President Donald Trump and his team’s intersection with Russia during and after the 2016 presidential campaign.