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South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he has no plans to call Mueller to testify before the upper chamber's judiciary committee, which he chairs.

While travelling on official business in Rwanda, he told The State newspaper that he was "not interested" in hearing from Mueller.

Democrats, who control the House of Representatives but not the Senate, have already requested that Mueller testifies to them directly "as soon as possible".

The report states that Trump decided to fire FBI Director James Comey days after Comey declined to answer whether the president was under investigation during a congressional hearing.

Trump reportedly blamed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for Comey's response, saying: "This is terrible, Jeff. It's all because you recused...You left me on an island. I can't do anything."

The report said Trump insisted that the public termination letter sent to Comey note that Comey told Trump he was not under investigation.

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The White House insisted Comey was fired based on independent recommendations from the Attorney General and his deputy, but the report said Trump had decided to fire him before he ever heard from the Department of Justice.

Comey told the Mueller team that during a January 2017 dinner with Trump, the president had "repeatedly brought up Comey's future, asking whether he wanted to stay on as FBI director" - comments Comey interpreted as "an effort to create a patronage relationship by having Comey ask for his job".

"I need loyalty, I expect loyalty," Trump said, according to Comey's account.

In Trump's written answers to the special counsel, he says he was honest when he told reporters during his campaign that he did not have ongoing projects in Russia.

He said in 2015 his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen "suggested to me the possibility" of a Trump-branded building in Moscow.

The president said they had several conversations about it, but "they were brief and they were not memorable", and never contained any discussion about travel to Russia.

"I was not enthused about the proposal," he said.

He added that he had signed a "non-binding letter of intent" but took no other meaningful action to secure a deal in Russia.

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Read more about the Trump Tower meeting here:

Four questions about Trump's tower in Moscow that never was

The report's redactions have been colour-coded based on the reason why they have been removed from the public view:

• "Harm to Ongoing Matter" is in white
• "Grand Jury" is in Red
• "Investigative Technique" is in yellow
• "Personal Privacy" is in green

When Trump learned in the summer of 2017 that journalists were asking questions about a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower - between campaign officials and a Russian lawyer - he ordered his team not to disclose the emails that set up the meeting.

Trump suggested "that the emails would not leak and that the number of lawyers with access to them should be limited", the report says.

Before the emails became public - which showed the Russian lawyer had offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton - Trump "edited a press statement for Trump Jr by deleting a line that acknowledged" those details.

Instead, Trump Jr's statement initially claimed the meeting had been about adoptions. In a second statement, he acknowledged the offer but described it as routine "opposition research".

The report notes that when reporters asked about the president's involvement in the drafting of the statement, Trump's personal lawyer "repeatedly denied the president had played any role".

The report states that Trump called then White House counsel Don McGahn and directed him to "have the Special Counsel removed".

"In interviews with this Office, McGahn recalled that the President called him at home twice and on both occasions directed him to call [Deputy Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein and say that Mueller had conflicts that precluded him from serving as Special Counsel."

The report adds: "When the President called McGahn a second time to follow up on the order to call the Department of Justice, McGahn recalled that the President was more direct, saying something like, 'Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can't be the Special Counsel,' recalled the President telling him 'Mueller has to go' and 'Call me back when you do it.'

"McGahn understood the President to be saying that the Special Counsel had to be removed by Rosenstein.

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He then said he left Trump with the impression that he would call Rosenstein in an effort to "just get off the phone".

McGahn also told the special counsel he felt "trapped because he did not plan to follow the President's directive" but did not know what he would say the next time he called.

He decided he would "resign rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre".

Mueller also questioned Trump about why he remarked, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing" at a rally in July 2016.

What did Trump say in his written response? He made the comment "in jest and sarcastically, as was apparent to any objective observer".

"I do not recall having any discussion about the substance of the statement in advance of the press conference.

"I do not recall being told during the campaign of any efforts by Russia to infiltrate or hack the computer systems or email accounts of Hillary Clinton or her campaign prior to them becoming the subject of media reporting and I have no recollection of any particular conversation in that regard."

Some of the redactions were made by Barr's team, he said, because the facts would interfere with ongoing criminal prosecutions.

One of those cases involves longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone, who is due to go on trial in November on charges of lying to Congress about his contacts with Wikileaks during the Trump campaign.

Passages labelled "harm to ongoing matter" have been blacked out, leading to some Twitter jokes.

The report says that the Mueller team considered issuing a subpoena for the president but ultimately decided against it.

"Recognising that the President would not be interviewed voluntarily, we considered whether to issue a subpoena for his testimony. We viewed the written answers to be inadequate," the report states.

"But at that point, our investigation had made significant progress and produced substantial evidence for our report. We thus weighed the costs of potentially lengthy constitutional litigation with resulting delay in finishing our investigation, against the anticipated benefits.

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Former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who were both fired by Trump and have since emerged as critics, are both declining to comment on the report.

The report contains the president's written answers to questions from the Mueller team. When asked about the June meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and a Russian lawyer, Trump answered:

"I have no recollection of learning at the time that Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort or Jared Kushner were considering participating in a meeting in June 2016 concerning potentially negative information about Hillary Clinton."

"Nor do I recall learning during the campaign that the June 9 2016 meeting had taken place, that the referenced emails existed, or that Donald J Trump Jr had other communications with Emin Aglarov or Robert Goldstone between June 3 2016 and June 9 2016."

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The obstruction inquiry section of the report concludes by saying: "The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment."

"At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment.

"Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

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The president's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen has claimed Trump directed him to lie to Congress.

But the Mueller report states: "With regard to Cohen’s false statements to Congress, while there is evidence, described below, that the President knew Cohen provided false testimony to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow Project, the evidence available to us does not establish that the President directed or aided Cohen’s false testimony.”

Trump's legal team released the following statement.

"The results of the investigation are a total victory for the President. The report underscores what we have argued from the very beginning - there was no collusion - there was no obstruction. After a 17-month investigation, testimony from some 500 witnesses, the issuance of 2,800 subpoenas, the execution of nearly 500 search warrants, early morning raids, the examination of more than 1.4 million pages of documents, and the unprecedented cooperation of the President, it is clear there was no criminal wrongdoing. Nothing withheld; nothing concealed; nothing deleted; nothing destroyed;and nothing bleached."

The agency's website has crashed as people try to download a copy of the report.

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According to the report, these are the issues examined by the special counsel as a part of the obstruction investigation:

• The Trump campaign's response to reports about Russian support for Trump
• Conduct involving FBI director James Comey and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn
• President's reaction to continuing Russia investigation
• President's termination of Director Comey
• Appointment of a Special Counsel and efforts to remove him
• Efforts to curtail Special Counsel's investigation
• Efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence
• Efforts to have the Attorney General take control of the investigation
• Efforts to have White House counsel McGahn deny that the president had ordered him to have the special counsel removed
• Conduct involving ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, ex-campaign chair Paul Manafort and ex-personal lawyer Michael Cohen
• Overarching factual issues

According to the report, when former Attorney General Jeff Sessions informed Trump that a special counsel had been appointed, he slumped back in his chair and said "Oh my god. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency."

He used an expletive twice, according to the report, which was released moments ago.

"You were supposed to protect me", Trump said.

The report added that the language he used may have varied slightly.

"Everyone tells me if you get one of these independent counsels, it ruins your presidency. It takes years and years and I won’t be able to do anything. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me."

Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell says he's looking forward to "carefully reviewing the report".

“I’m grateful for the Attorney General’s diligent work to release as much of the Special Counsel’s report as possible to Congress and to the American people. The nation is fortunate to have an experienced leader like Bill Barr in place to ensure maximum possible transparency while carefully protecting classified material and legally restricted grand jury information," his statement says.

"While the investigation identified numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign, the evidence was not sufficient to support criminal charges," the report states.

"Among other things, the evidence was not sufficient to charge any Campaign official as an unregistered agent of the Russian government or other Russian principal."