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We will continue to negotiate with the department of justice and the white house, but at some point, if they dont provide us the information that the american people and congress say that we need, then were going to have to go to subpoenas. >> democratic congressman ted lieu, member of the house judiciary committee, as washington anticipates the findings of the mueller report. nbc news has learned the attorney general could be releasing the principal conclusions late this afternoon. lets bring...

They are now drawing these virtal battvirt virtual battle lines to get the documents and findings that went into the writing of the mueller report. tell us about that. >> we have gone from springboarding off what is each in this report to a fight about actually getting it on capitol hill. nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, held a conference call yesterday with more than 120 members of her caucus and her instruction to them was, look. we are about to fight to get the full mueller report and ...

Talking about this report and the democratic reaction to it. >> lets see what the report has to say, if they are so confidence that the report is going to exonerate them, they should fight to make that report public but i suspect that wefi those words of transparency to prove hollow. >> adam schiff is saying okay, fine, if you guys say the report axo axexonerates trump then why wou they not want to release it. >> jim jordan is ridiculous. >> chairman schiff is exactly right. you hear from democr...

Report, will those chairs and ranking members of the judiciary committees then tell the public what bill barr has told them? and what counts as muellers principal conclusions anyway? how much detail is that? i mean, how much is the attorney general going to tell those two house members and two senators as soon as this weekend? we do not know. not yet. but then heres the last substantive part of the letter -- and i think its probably the most important part of the letter while also being the most...

That letter on friday, that he is committed to providing as much information as possible about the conclusions of the most highly anticipated federal investigation in recent memory. if all goes according to plan, members of congress will receive this summary from barr late this afternoon, and the justice department will also make it public. alex wrrks. >> all right, pete. thank you for that. also new today, the democrats are making a formal request for muellers evidence to be preserved. leadin...

Weekend. will the summary of principal conclusions require the attorney general to consult with the white house counsels office? is there any material that could be subject to executive privilege? the white house counsel say they dont expect to see the summary before its transmitted to the congressional tonight hes. and will the outside counsel write a rebuttal report. rudy giuliani and jay sekulow say that depend on what is in the report. the president and his outside counsel are taking comfort...

This investigation more than hes been shaped by anything during his presidency. the other thing i would like to say, with his references to nixon. donald trump always believed that richard nixon didnt foyt hard enough. that he should have been more difficult. that he should have resisted even more firmly. so i think the chances for him to resist attempts for the background information, perhaps for the whole report to be released is great. while we dont know a lot of muellers conclusions, he ha...

And release here. >> right. sandra: so, again, what is that process like? if you can just kind of give us some sort of color as to whats happening inside the doj right now. >> well, i suspect one of the reasons youd talk to the special counsel is to find out what evidence is supporting certain conclusions you make and whether or not theres any problem with releasing that evidence. if some witnesses are reluctant to come forward and have certain agreements of confidentiality, some you may have on...

Again. but how are his allies responding? joining me now for an exclusive interview, texas republican senator ted cruz, a member of the senate judiciary committee who actually worked at one time for robert mueller at the justice department. thank you so much for joining me this morning. first question is, do you think the public should see the full mueller report? >> absolutely. i think the report needs to be made public and released to the congress, and it needs to be released to the american p...

As for robert mueller he went to church this morning with his wife just steps from the white house. hes having a leisurely sunday morning outside the white house. look, we talked about this yesterday, this is going to be the beginning of the battle. theyre going to release the conclusions which could be more than were expecting. its not going to go as far as law makers want to see. there was a bipartisan vote where they wanted to see the whole report. thats not going to happen today, but we coul...