Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks to reporters outside the speaker's office on July 22, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"They are afraid of the embarrassment of what is contained within the report," Raskin told Fox News Digital on Monday evening.
Smith submitted his final report to the attorney general in January after Trump won re-election to the presidency in 2024. The DOJ released Volume I of Smith’s report earlier this year, which covers the investigation into whether Trump coordinated efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
According to that report, Volume II deals with whether Trump unlawfully retained classified information in the wake of his first term.
Lawmakers will likely probe Smith over the collection of lawmaker phone records as a part of his investigation into Trump. Smith allegedly used the FBI to collect thousands of phone records from lawmakers without their knowledge.
Raskin believes Republicans will likely use the closed-door hearing as a basis for prosecution against Smith.
"They should allow Jack Smith to testify in public. Every special counsel report has been released. And every special counsel or independent counsel has testified in public. So, yeah, they are trying to get him on the fast road to one of their ridiculous prosecutions," Raskin said.
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Todd Blanche, nominee for U.S. deputy attorney general, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, Feb. 12, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In response to claims of the investigation’s findings, Raskin said that’s a difficult determination to make.
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"Well, it's hard to, it’s hard to say why we need to know the things that we don't know," Raskin said.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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