The general public should be able to read all of what Special Counsel Robert Mueller reported to the Department of Justice about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Gov. Charlie Baker said on Monday.
"Like everybody else, I think that report ought to become a public document. And then it's incumbent on Congress to act on the findings of the report when they become available," the governor told reporters.
After about two years of investigating, Mueller delivered his report on Russian meddling to the Justice Department on Friday. On Sunday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr summarized for Congressional leaders and the public that report, indicating that Mueller did not find evidence of collusion or cooperation between Trump or his team and Russia.
Baker, a Republican who did not support Trump, said he is "loathe to comment about a four-page letter that supposedly wraps up a two-year investigation," referring to Barr's summary.
"What I really want to see is the report, just like most other people, I think, in America at this point in time," he said, adding that he will "reserve judgment or comment on most of this until I actually have a chance to see it."
Many Democrats have called for Barr to make public the entirety of Mueller's report, and the attorney general said his goal is to release as much of the report as he can. Baker on Monday added a Republican voice to those calls.
"The Ken Starr report was released and I'm pretty sure several of the other independent counsel reports have been released as well," he said. "Some of the stuff gets redacted if it's related to grand jury testimony and that kind of stuff, which I get, but I think like most people I would hope and anticipate the whole thing will get out because it should."
