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If some of these conversations are embarrassing -- yes? >> look at the effort they made to give up all these documents. >> exactly. >> they said, we were very cooperative. the initial legal team came in and was very cooperative, wanted to gifr tve the special counsel office everything they asked for. the new legal team took a different position. i think well know very soon here. lets see what happens. >> michael, you still with us? >> reporter: im here. >> michael, what do you want revealed in t...

I prosecuted this list of people. here are all the indictments that i brought because there was enough evidence to prosecute them. i did not prosecute anybody else because there was not enough evidence to prosecute anybody else. he could have just done that, you know? one sentence and a list of all the indictments he filed, boom, done. a lot of people thought that is what mueller would do in terms of filing his final report. i mean, if he had done that, the bullet points briefing that bill barr ...

Patient. theyve paid for this investigation. they have a right to know the conclusions of it. >> are you willing to support holding the attorney general in contempt if he refuses to release all of that underlying information, those documents? >> im really hoping it will not get to that, victor. im hoping the attorney general will do what he said at his confirmation hearing, do everything he can to be transparent and that hell work with congress to make sure this is done quickly. i know members o...

Conclusions as soon as this weekend. so this is the attorney general telling us that he has muellers report and he is not handing the report over to congress, right? this letter from bill barr is not a cover letter with muellers findings attached, but he says he plans to give them, i guess, bullet points something this weekend? he says he will advise them, he will devise the chairs and the ranking members of the judiciary committees of the special counsels principal conclusions. i mean, i should...

House. thank you. ken delainan is, nbc news intelligence and national reporter. ken, with a good sunday morning to you, do we have any indications that the white house may claim executive privilege as they perhaps want to prevent, even delay the release of some of the findings from the mueller report? >> good morning, alex. not on this initial tranche of information that attorney general william before bars expected to transmit to congress as soon as today. theres been no indication that the whi...

Try to spare innocent people from getting smeared with uncorroborated allegations from the report. sandra: but as we know, there are calls, bipartisan calls, for the report to be released in its entirety. is that possible? >> not under department procedure, it shouldnt be. i mean, if the department declines to indict someone, the general -- you know, you either indict and go to trial or you shut up. thats generally the rule. you dont let the public now do -- i mean, if people take a step back, t...

Incapable of telling the truth for a long time. >> do you agree with that? did mueller let the president off the hook and is that a sense of frustration to you? >> he clearly did let him off the hook in the sense that he didnt attempt to compel testimony from the president. i think chairman schiff is right. its hard to understand why that didnt happen here. i have tremendous respect for mr. mueller. im anxious to see the report, anxious to see the conclusions he drew and judgments he made and wh...

Executive privilege cannot be used to shield wrong doing. >> how long will you give the justice department to turn it over? >> i cant give you a specific answer. >> days, weeks, months? >> it wont be months. >> okay. so you are likely to see the main conclusions of the mueller report as soon as today. will you accept them at face values? >> well see what barr characterizes as main conclusions of the mueller report. well accept them, subject to seeing the underlying data. we have to make judgment...

He can now say in the law i will give the top conclusions, i will give some analysis, but thats it. im not going to give you the evidence. or he could turn everything over. >> barr already had his own recommended or top conclusions. this attorney general is either going to shape his own or perhaps reshape what hes reading, you know, from mueller. whats our expectation? >> i mean, i dont think that bill barr is starting from scratch. i think that, you know, weve seen bob mueller be very kprens si...

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