Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller sits with prosecutor Aaron Zebley as he testifies before a House Intelligence Committee hearing on the Office of Special Counsel's investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller told lawmakers on Wednesday his team decided not to exercise its subpoena powers against President Donald Trump because it wanted to expedite the end of the investigation and a subpoena could have led to a lengthy legal fight.
"We were almost towards the end of our investigation and we'd had little success pushing to get the interview of the president," Mueller told the U.S. House Intelligence Committee. "We decided that we did not want to exercise the subpoena powers because of the necessity of expediting the end of the investigation."
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