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Says that he is reviewing the report and suggested he will provide principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. joining me now is democratic congressman ted lieu, and he serves on the house judiciary committee. congressman, we appreciate your time. thank you so much. you and to see the full mueller report or any or all of the information that was used to craft the report? >> thank you, don, for your question. let me first say that americans should be proud of this day. despite numerous attempt...

Reasons. then, a final category that i think is really important, information about ongoing investigations. we know there are ongoing investigations, including by federal prosecutors in manhattan in the southern district of new york. so, we dont want to make that public, either, because it can undermine or upset those investigative efforts. by the way, as i was yammering away, david, one other category, executive privilege. information the president claims is executive privilege. these are all i...

Premature? i mean theres a ways to go yet. >> well, look, on the mueller investigation itself, its over. we know that. we will get the major -- well get all the conclusions delivered tonight. well see that. so well know. but even if this report doesnt offer anything new will, look, its not good for the trump administration. theres been 34 guilty pleas or indictments, seven of which are advisers to the president of the united states. six of those people have pled guilty and most of the conviction...

Transparency. a number of the house -- made that clear, believes that the precedent is on side, believe that public opinion is on their side. nancy pelosi sent a her to their colleagues earlier, making the state that conclusions summarized by bill barr would not be sufficient to her caucus. she want the attorney generals offered to provide the committee with a summary of the reports conclusion is insufficient. congress requires the full report and the underlying documents to the committees can p...

There will be no in-person briefing and these conclusions could actually be submitted to them by the attorney general via e-mail. so thats all percolating now. we dont have any exact idea on the timing here, but we do know that as part of this review, the attorney general is reviewing this confidential report. we know that hes consulting with the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, as well as special counsel mueller. heres what he wrote to congress yesterday. he said i intend to consult wit...

Barr decides he doesnt want to do that and decides in his judgement for whatever reason or however he reads the law, the regulations or thinks is relevant justice department president for some unprecedented thing like this, if he decides no ill brief the principal conclusions which is who got indicted and beyond that none of this should be shared with congress and you have to trust us thats this -- that this is fine, if he decides that people calling for it to be released doesnt persuade him, ar...

General barr releases his conclusions about the report and not necessarily the detail. the problem is when they do memos concerning the reasons why they are declining to prosecute someone they put in a lot of information which may just be rumor libellous. >> you made the point that the president will say how many millions of dollars this cost. the american people paid for it. dont they deserve, if they want, to and certainly surveys and polls have shown that the american public wants this releas...

Sure that process is completed and transparently shown to the american public. we have a right to know what this president and his campaign and his advisers did in terms of the 2016 election and what involvement russia had. we have a right to know. >> those around the president told cnn that phrases like we won, or the fat lady has sung, we dont have the details. even those principal conclusions yet. do you expect thats a little premature? >> oh, its devastatingly disappointing. imagine what thi...

Saying, yes, no collusion, witch hunt and so on. and in the last few days hes been talking about and almost promising transparency to the american people. so i think if he does not follow through on that youre going to hear a lot of people democrats, and perhaps even some republicans saying what is the white house hiding, and thats something the white house and the presidents team is going to have to deal with. whether theyre happy for that tonight that is looming question. >> the house judiciar...

Keep in mind, you remember when the original request was made, that was from jerry nadler, he requested information from over 80 people in trumps orbit. certainly significant that now jared kushner has agreed to comply, related to time on the campaign, time in the white house during the transition. potentially a huge amount of information from jared kushner. again, it all underscores while we talk about the mueller report and what it could say or could not say, capitol hill has their own investi...