Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department in May 2017 to take over the Russia probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The former FBI director concluded his work in March this year by submitting a 448-page, confidential report to Attorney General William Barr, a Trump political appointee sworn in about a month earlier.
The public version of the report stated that there was no evidence that Trump's campaign conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 election but didn't conclude if the president had obstructed justice.
Instead, Mueller recounted multiple episodes involving Trump and discussed potential legal theories for connecting these actions to elements of an obstruction offense.
It was Barr and his then deputy, Rod Rosenstein, who named Mueller as special counsel, that concluded that prosecutors did not have "sufficient" evidence to support a charge in the obstruction case, a decision that has drawn scrutiny from Democrats, who have called for more investigations and Mueller's congressional appearances.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said that investigations by his party, which controls the House, will continue. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that his panel will file lawsuits this week to obtain more information about Mueller's report.
However, reactions from the Republicans were sharply different.
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