This is why Congress and ultimately the public have to see the report. Congress needs to carry out its constitutional duties and the public is entitled to the facts if it could influence their vote at all. Settling for a memo from a political appointee with a somewhat problematic history on this specifically is not going to cut it and there is no way in hell the Rs would allow it were the situation reversed.
Yeah...Some say this is a political war wrt releasing this report. It's more of a pro-transparency movement. Personally, It's one thing to care about whether Trump is or is not liable to legal punishment in the long run for sleazy stuff he's done. I just think we have a right to
know about sleazy stuff he's done.
We should be able to see the tax returns. We should be able to know about the activities of the Trump Organization vis-a-vis foreign policy and lobbyists. We should be able to know what actually happened with the Trumps' various "charitable" organizations and financial ventures and how they intertwine with their political activities. We should be able to know whether Trump associates violated campaign finance rules. And we should be able to know the ways in which responsible governance, such as appointing qualified people to unfilled administration posts, has been abandoned in favor of backscratching and dealmaking for private gain.
This is about Trump being a known con artist and grifter long standing. And.. as most Republicans probably would have enthusiastically agreed back in the early 2000's when Trump self-identified as a Democrat. In his campaign he did a lot of posturing about "draining the swamp" in Washington. But two years in, the White House has become notoriously swampier, with a secretive and haphazard management style involving an endless string of shady cronies and underqualified "palace favorites" who get brought on board with laudatory tweets and subsequently leave in embarrassing disgrace and/or disdain.
If some people don't mind living with that kind of shamelessly banana-republic-lite setup, that's up to you. But they shouldn't pretend that anybody who wants it properly and thoroughly investigated is just being a partisan shit-stirrer.