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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement Sunday that the findings meant the \"case is closed\" on the matters investigated by Mueller, a conclusion rejected by Democrats.

“This is just the beginning,” Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., a member of the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, told ABC News Sunday afternoon. \"It’s case closed criminally but not case closed as to whether the president committed a high crime or misdemeanor.\"

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, a Trump ally and member of the House Judiciary Committee, argued that Democrats’ focus on the Russia probe would hurt their standing with the public.

“We will be able to show that this batch of Democrats that had been telling lies about the president for 22 months, cannot be trusted,” he said, previewing Republicans’ message ahead of the 2020 presidential election. “They can't be trusted on healthcare, on infrastructure, on education, because they came here to Washington insisting that there was this Russia collusion. They've spent all their time on that narrative, it's proven to be false.

“And I think the American people see who's fighting for them in this president, and who's just trying to create a distraction that ultimately was disproven.”

Nadler and five House Democratic chairs asked the Justice Department for the full Mueller report by next week, and for the underlying evidence to be transmitted to Congress beginning on, April 2. The House Judiciary Committee has also asked Barr to appear before the panel to testify, according to Judiciary Committee members, who met privately on Monday evening with the committee's special oversight counsels to plot out the path forward.

In a statement with Schiff and House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, he said it was \"unacceptable that, after Special Counsel Mueller spent 22 months meticulously uncovering this evidence, Attorney General Barr made a decision not to charge the President in under 48 hours,\" and did so without interviewing Trump.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, who also said he wanted Barr to testify, stood by the attorney general’s conclusions on Monday, and said he wanted his committee to investigate the handling of the Russia counterintelligence investigation.

The attorney general is also expected to appear before the House Appropriations Committee for a budget hearing on April 9, according to a committee aide, giving Democrats another opportunity to question him about the Mueller investigation.

ABC's John Parkinson contributed to this report.

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