On May 17, 2017, Robert Swan Mueller III was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing an investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related matters. Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019. This is the unedited redacted version of that report which was submitted to congress and the public on April 18, 2019.