Over the weekend, President Donald Trump declined to commit to making the findings of special prosecutor Robert Mueller's report public. Now, in the face of the president's ambivalence, House Democrats — and, increasingly, some Republicans — are considering legislation to guarantee that the public is able to see Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Juliette Kayyem, a national security expert on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School, a CNN analyst, and CEO of ZEMCAR, predicted that the report will be released — but it's possible the public won't be able to see all of it.
"There will probably be a good reason to have a semi-redacted report," Kayyem said.
"It's likely the Mueller report comes out and there's going to be two dozen pending cases in courtrooms. He's not going to threaten whatever sources and methods or whatever information he has," she added.
But Kayyem also said the public should be patient and not expect a report to be released in the near future.
"I don't know if we should believe that the Mueller report is coming any time soon," she said.
"He just indicted Roger Stone. We don't know if Roger Stone will be talking [and] if Roger Stone talks and is the connection between WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign, Mueller won't be done by then," Kayyem continued.
