Mueller report to be released within a week, Attorney General William Barr tells Congress

WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr told Congress on Tuesday that he plans to release special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the presidential election in the next week.

Justice Department lawyers and officials in Mueller's office are working to redact sensitive information in the lengthy document, a process that is going smoothly, Barr testified before the House Appropriations Committee.

"The process is going along very well," Barr said, "and my original timetable of being able to release this by mid-April stands. And so I think that from my standpoint, within a week