hand delivered to him from the special counsel's office, sometime early afternoon before 4:00, and then at 4:30 his chief of staff called over -- actually, his -- the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein called mueller, thanked him for his service, and then barr's chief of staff called him at flood at the white house to go ahead and give the white house a heads up. that was something we were wondering about, they had a half hour notice before the public to know what was in this letter. the letter was read to the white house, they knew what to expect. then we all start to get into our positions, and at 5:00, the justice department and their congressional liaison's office went out and dispersed a team on the hill, so the appropriate committees all got this letter handed to them at the exact same time. at that point we ran out, we had this letter, we reported it, and as of 7:00 p.m. tonight, the attorney general was just finishing up his day and