As Robert Mueller writes his report, a potential battle brews over obstruction of justice

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"Whenever Mueller's investigation concludes, the moment is expected to mark the beginning of a new political and legal fight over the probe's findings"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/10/politics/robert-mueller-trump-obstruction-battle/index.html

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A fight over who will see Mueller's report

Meanwhile, as clues mount that Mueller is ending his multi-year investigation in the coming weeks, new political and legal fights are emerging over who will actually be able to read his findings.

It's a battle the White House and Congress are already preparing for to determine if any of the report Mueller produces goes to Congress or any part of it becomes public.

President Donald Trump wouldn't indicate Thursday whether he wants Mueller's final report to be made public, saying to reporters, "We'll have to see."

But behind the scenes at the White House, an intense effort is underway to keep a lot of what Mueller submits private. The new White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, has been beefing up his staff to deal with this fight, hiring 17 new lawyers including three deputy counsels, a senior administration official said. More could be hired.

Mueller's investigators have been reviewing more than a million pages of documents that the President and the White House legal team voluntarily turned over without waiving privilege.

Trump's legal team and Cipollone believe that a large portion of the information in Mueller's investigation should be protected by executive privilege. The Trump lawyers envision a heavily redacted version of the report to perhaps become public.