BERMAN: All right. Sources tell CNN that the new Attorney General William Barr could announce as early as next week the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. The question is how much of the Mueller report will Congress and the American people get to see? Joining me now, Democratic Congressman Jim Himes. He's a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, it's coming. The question is, what's coming? What are your expectations here?</s>REP. JIM HIMES (D), CONNECTICUT: Yes, John, I have pretty clear expectations here. This Mueller report has been probably the most controversial thing the American public has had to consider for the last year. Of course, that's very much a deliberate strategy by the president and the president's supporters to throw mud on the FBI, on the Department of Justice, on Robert Mueller himself. And, of course, this has been enormously divisive for the country. So, you know, there are all sorts of considerations in an ordinary investigation about whether a report or statement at all is made if it might compromise people who haven't been charged. Obviously, we need to be protective of sources and methods and that sort of thing. But the answer here, John, is that this is such a momentous moment for the American public, that while there is a need to protect sources and methods, this needs to come out in a way that explains exactly what the special counsel has been doing, and exactly what the special counsel found. That is critical I think to the restoration of some sense of normal politics in this country.</s>BERMAN: You say it is essential to protect sources and methods. What about the protection of people who are not charged with crimes? Because declinations, declining to prosecute or charge here, that is one of the things that Robert Mueller will report to William Barr. END
Interview with Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut