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Some results of it, that would have been sort of the top-line findings, the conclusions, by 5:00 this afternoon, but now we are told thats not going to happen, and well likely see it sometime tomorrow at the very earliest. a white house source told me yesterday it would probably not be until sometime late sunday, now it appears overly ambitious, this idea that we would have gotten something out today. the president having a leisurely saturday, just got back to mara lag go. he certainly is taking...

May have to review any materials before they are released in case they have to claim executive privilege, or maybe theres a request to waive executive privilege, or maybe they ask for some redactions. now, democrats at the same time are asking for the entire report to be released, but that would include a lot of sensitive materials, so that is a wrestling match that could go on for weeks, if not months. of course, there are other investigations going on as well at the southern district of new yo...

Lease. --. lease. >> reporter: its being described as an emergency caucus conference call. speaker of the house nancy pelosi sent democratic lawmakers an e-mail about this call where she explained this. we are insisting that any briefings to any committees be unclassified so that members can speak freely about every aspect of the report and not be confined to what doj chooses to release publicly. even if doj chooses not to prosecute additional individuals, the underlying findings must be prov...

Document dump from muellers office, and i think possibly attorney general barr will resist some of that. i can see the white house and donald trump telling the justice department to resist that subpoena at which point we are headed into the courts. paul: kim, will there ever be an accounting for the steele dossier and how much it came about and how much it was relied upon by the fbi and the courts? >> we can have some hope that those inspector general reports, the one that is being done, in fact...

Kind of get this settled. so, i mean, some of these things are not an easy decision. and the other thing is if he decides to send, say, only summary conclusions and not the whole report, then i guess theyll, they have the right to subpoena the report and everything? if. >> well, you know, theres a middle ground, right? you could observe the right rules and policies and redact portions but not give just a summary report. so there can still be a pretty fulsome document that goes over. but youre ri...

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Wound up dutying 34 people -- indicting 34 people including 6 trump campaign officials. >> reporter: but because zero trump campaign officials have been or will be dutied by the special counsel for colluding with the kremlin to throw an election, republicans now want to make sure the record is straight on that stat. >> i think there were some people over there that wanted this outcome, that wanted a bad outcome, and didnt get it. whos going to be held accountable. how many tens of millions of ta...

The clapper report, which is the collection of the intelligence services report on what was going on in the election at that time. that report was primarily about concerns over russian meddling in election processes here and in europe. but at some point that concern about russian meddling or morphed into making donald trump himself the target of the medias investigation. how did that happen. paul: what im going to be looking for, bill, is whether mueller has a narrative that connects a lot of th...

Fact. >> what is he thinking about when he makes these decisions about what should be redacted? i guess one thing is this point about you cant, youre not supposed to smear anybody with innuendo or information if you havent indicted them. thats one thing hes got to think about. >> right. thats a doj policy side type thing. thats not written in the statute. but you think about ray donovan, secretary of labor, back in the reagan years, it actually doesnt get in a report, it got tried and acquitted ...

With wikileaks on the leaks of the documents. if there are no indictments, it means mueller has not uncoveredded any criminal activity for any of these people. and just think about in the alternative, what if he had indicted donald jr -- >> right. paul: that would have been a typhoon. >> federal prosecutors speak with indictments, right. >> and how mr. mueller has spoken in the past is through the his filings in other indictments. so its a big deal. if you go back to the original part of this, y...