U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who received a report on Friday from Mueller, told lawmakers in a letter that he may be able to inform them of Mueller’s “principal conclusions as soon as this weekend.” Under Department of Justice regulations, Barr is empowered to decide how much to disclose publicly and he said in the letter that he is “committed to as much transparency as possible.” Barr arrived at the department building in Washington shortly before 10 a.m. (1400 GMT) on Saturday. Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee scheduled a 2 p.m. (1800 GMT) conference call to talk about next steps and messaging, congressional aides said. Trump, who is spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, has not commented to reporters or taken to Twitter, one of his favorite ways of communicating, on the completion of the investigation that has cast a shadow over the Republican’s two years in the White House.
