Trump's former White House counsel Don McGahn may testify next week on the former president's attempts to intervene in the Russia investigation

• The former White House counsel Don McGahn is likely to testify before Congress next week.
• The testimony would touch on whether Donald Trump obstructed justice in the Russia investigation.
• Two years earlier, McGahn ignored an initial subpoena to testify on Trump.

The former White House counsel Don McGahn has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and is likely to do so next week, according to $4.

McGahn's testimony would take place in a closed-door session, The Times, said, citing two unnamed sources. It is likely to examine Trump's attempts to intervene in the $4.

The Times wrote that McGahn's testimony had been delayed while lawyers for House Democrats, the Department of Justice, and McGahn waited to see how the former president's camp would react. This is because McGahn's deal to testify hinged upon there being no active legal challenge to his participation.

According to The Times, Trump had initially said he would intervene, but a lawyer for the former president announced last week that he would not be challenging McGahn on testifying.

According to a May 12 $4, any testimony will be limited to "publicly available portions of the Mueller Report" and whether those portions "accurately reflected Mr. McGahn's statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and whether those statements were truthful."

McGahn was a key witness in the Russia investigation. $4 more than 160 times in the special counsel Robert Mueller's final 448-page report.

His expected testimony comes after a two-year fight to get McGahn in front of the House Judiciary Committee $4.

In 2019, McGahn managed to $4. At the time, the $4, and Trump directed McGahn not to show up at his hearing, arguing that administration officials had "absolute immunity."

$4. A transcript of the McGahn interview will be released after his testimony, $4.