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What more are you learning? >> staffers are in the house and congressional committee. they are the first to get a copy of this summary of robert muellers conclusions. but already democrats are launching a preemptive attack of sorts against that move, saying thats certainly not going to be enough for them. they expect a fight to play out in the days and weeks ahead if they dont get what they want. all the underlying evidence supporting bob muellers conclusions, why he prosecuted some individuals,...

Why did he capitulate? because there wasnt the case there to pursue that. also, lets not forget the mandate. the mandate was about russian interference in the election and whether there were any connection between the president and president putin. what is this going to say about the president? >> and will this tell us the whys? we already know no indictments, no obstruction, no conspiracy to defraud the government. will these conclusions tell us why? is it because you just cant indict a sitting...

United states obstructed justice, you would put that in your report? >> of course and i did in connection with the lewinsky investigation and for various reasons indicated it was not appropriate under existing department of justice policy -- which i was not bound by, but i was under the statute to consider it. >> one last question, the democrats in congress are also saying they want to see all the underlying evidence that went on to support either the conclusions or even to support things that t...

Think she can do it. >> thank you. thanks very much. back here in washington the expectation that any time now the attorney general william barr will turn over those principal conclusions to some of the members of congress. all weekend barr and the deputy attorney general have been pouring over the contents of muellers findings to live up to barrs commitment to provide as mu much transparency as possible. both political parties backing into their sort of political corners preparing their message...

A big move for him and a big decision. if we do get some information, it could quell those questions on capitol hill, but we could also be setting up for a big political and legal battle. >> there were conclusions coming from bob mueller compiling the report, his conclusions, but it is at the discretion of the attorney general to say, let me craft my own. of course he has to read through the whole thing. we dont even know how many pages this report is, but were talking about two years. >> thats ...

Mueller was able to come to his conclusions about coordination and conspiracy without even interviewing them about that? >> well, they spoke probably to manafort. they spoke to gates. they may have spoken to other witnesses that were collateral to that meeting, whatever documentation of there was, they looked at and they made a determination that either jared kushner or don junior were targets and they werent going to inquire of them because of their target status or they felt there was not enou...

Individuals associated with the campaign of president donald trump. so they investigated that, and on the issue of coordination, he concluded, mueller, there certainly wasnt enough coordination to justify criminal charges. >> to justify criminal charges. so what im suggesting, there may be some gray space in between activity that is offers from a foreign power to assist a campaign. there is some space in between that, and what is criminal conspiracy. and i just think as a country, we need to thi...

Sources close to the attorney general tell fox news mr. barr wants to send muellers conclusions to the leadership on the house and senate judiciary committees sometime today. house speaker nancy pelosi says she and chuck schumer will insist on unclassified briefings, saying that congress needs to full report and the underlying documents so the congressional committee are able to continue their work. yesterday house democrats held a conference call on the mueller report. according to a person on ...

"politico".com. thank you for your time tonight. its an exciting night. thank you for helping us understand the extent of the reporting so far. much appreciated. joining us now a national security reporter for "the washington post." mr. barrett very nice to have you back with us tonight on what is a very exciting evening. i first want to ask, weve been on the air for about a half an hour here talking about what we think we know. let me ask if anything weve discussed thus far, that ive discussed ...

Investigation. they are sick of it millions of dollars have been spent. muellers team did a thorough job and talk to hundreds of people. wetmore possibly can be found? maybe they will agree it is a witchhunt if the democrats continue after the very professional special counsel made his conclusions. jon: jerry nadler is no fan of the president and he tweeted after the summary was released special counsel mueller worked 22 months to determine the extent to which president trump obstructed justice....