Former special counsel Jack Smith has once again penned a letter to Congress, expressing his desire to testify out in the open in defense of his prosecutions of President Donald Trump , but there appears to be an unknown element: whether or how much he can say about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation, given U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's heretofore refusal to release the report to the public.

The letter, submitted Thursday to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, suggested Smith is willing to correct "many mischaracterizations" about his Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago probes of Trump in a public forum at "open hearings."

In a recent interview , Smith said it was "absolutely ludicrous" that the

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