with house democrats in their request for the unredacted full mueller report and the underlying investigative investigation, investigative materials from the investigation but only on the condition that that vote be postponed or dropped altogether. at this point in time, there s no clear idea whether or not that s going to happen. it s worth noting this was a strategy the justice department also tried to deploy before the house committee voted to hold the attorney general in contempt. it didn t work then. we ll have to see what happens now, but they have made clear they are trying to stop this from happening. just depends on whether democrats will go along with it. will this offer go anywhere, do you think or will the committee not settle for anything less than the full, unredacted mueller report? reporter: we re still waiting to hear back an official response from the committee, but based on what we ve seen over the course of the last couple of months, just the back and forth betw
. following breaking news including a new offer from the justice department from the house judiciary chairman to turn over a limited set of the mueller report documents, a limited report, a limited set of the mueller report documents if democrats drop efforts to hold the attorney general william barr in contempt. will this be enough for the house democrats? you know, wolf, i don t think so because they probably are going to get to a point where they ask the attorney general if you can now give us the unredacted report or less redacted report, why couldn t you give it to us before we voted to hold you in contempt in committee and scheduled this vote? but the issue to me is not going to be so much about this unredacted report and the underlying info, not because it s not important and not because democrats don t want to get their hands on it, but it should be clear to everyone now that this fight is playing out in terms of who testifies when in public and what information goes to the
house-controlled democrats. the house intelligence committee did actually reach an agreement on their subpoena related to underlying information in the mueller report earlier on. there s some kind of a paradigm with success here. based on what the request has been, based on how jerry nadler has been very stout throughout that he wants the full unredacted report and based on the fact house democrats are more uneasy than they ve ever been about what they ve gotten in return for that request from the white house, right now it appears unlikely that anything. this latest offer from the justice department comes as the white house continues to stone wall the judiciary committee s subpoena for documents from two key former white house officials. what will the democrats do in response to that? it s still an open question, but it s very likely or at least very possible that hope hicks, the former white house communications director, one of the closest aides to president trump during her tame