Don McGahn to Testify Under Oath About Whether Trump Tried to Fire Mueller
Former White House counsel Don McGahn has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about his role in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and subsequent report, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
Under the agreement, the panel will interview McGahn behind closed doors “as soon as possible,” rather than holding a public hearing. The interview will be transcribed and the transcript will be made public after McGahn’s attorneys, House counsel, and the Justice Department are given the opportunity to review it for accuracy.
The scope of the interview will be limited to “information attributed to Mr. McGahn in the publicly available portions of the Mueller Report,” any events that the report indicates involved McGahn, and whether McGahn’s statements to Mueller were truthful and accurately reflected in the report. McGahn is permitted to decline to answer questions deemed outside the agreed upon scope and the DOJ may instruct him not to answer certain questions, however, he will not be permitted to invoke executive privilege.
Given the agreed upon restrictions and parameters of the session, it appears that the committee is more concerned with confirming particular portions of the Mueller Report rather than seeking new information, specifically, whether Trump instructed McGahn to fire Mueller in an effort to end the investigation into Russian election meddling.
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