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
campaign finance violations. we don t know that that s all trump has been implicated in there as well. we re going to have to see how that plays out, i agree with ben that we do not know whether other offices, possibly the southern district of new york, and possibly other u.s. attorney s offices will be taking over other aspects of the previous mueller probe. glenn, i ve been wanting to talk to you about the what we now can officially call the mueller report, it is in it exists, since you ve worked with robert mueller, and what i saw that passage in the attorney general s letter, where he s basically saying, this report is not just a one or two page list of who we decided to charge and who we decline to charge. this report is big enough and has a sweep and scope that s big
list, a list of people we decided to indict. list of people we decided not to indict. it really could just be as simple as that, a list, not even including sentences. what the attorney general s letter seems to suggest is that this is a report that is substantial enough that is fullsome enough, that there could be decisions that have to be made about what parts of it to release and what parts of it not to release. and the fact that he s saying that he wants to consult and making it public, that he wants to consult with robert mueller, that would strike me as one of the more encouraging notes of people who want full disclosure are finding in that letter. i agree. and there is precedent for this, of course, leon jaworski, the special prosecutor during water gate in the interest of public disclosure and transparency released the entire final report of the watergate prosecution. there was a previous appointment of a special counsel in the waco
approach to disclosure so far, that what you re seeing in this letter is this about as positive a letter as you can read from the attorney general today? positive in terms of indicating the eventual full disclosure of the mueller report? yes, at this juncture, i m sure some people are clamoring saying, why don t we have the report right now. there are any number of very legitimate reasons why the attorney general should take a little time, review the report, make sure there isn t some classified source that would be burned if this material came out or something, i m sure that mueller has already done a large part of that, but still i think it s perfectly appropriate for the attorney general to do that. if there s ever hiding from the american people on the report on the evidence underlying the report, then i think all americans should stand up and protest in the loudest possible terms. we re going to take a break here, it is a well deserved break for our guests who have
public all of the reports conclusions, the mueller report, even if some of the evidence supporting those conclusions can t be made public? you know, that s certainly my goal and intent. it s hard for me to conceive of a conclusion that would run afoul of the reges as currently written, but that s certainly my intent. senator coons a lot of observers were uncomfortable with the tentative nature of the attorney general nominee s answers about that, but his letter today seems as though certainly what he s saying in the letter, is that his ambition on this is full disclosure and that the public interest is definitely something that he believes is absolutely already