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The media whatever he shares with congress. what is the strategy there? >>. >> reporter: to get out a summary of the conclusions as quickly as possible, including the broad line strokes as well as declination decisions. in other words, why mueller decided not to prosecute some people. the strategy appears to be first to maybe get out ahead of any leaks and to protect the integrity of this investigation and this justice department. as you know, william barr is a newly installed attorney general a...

William bars office maybe today and tomorrow, he wants to get his principle conclusions to capitol hill this weekend. why is it important that his findings get out there as soon as sunday? >> he wants to make sure that now that the report is in his hands he gets as quickly as possible to members of congress. everyone wants to know whats in this report. and i think he knows the longer it takes to get there, the more questions, the more pressure that comes from the other side of pennsylvania avenu...

Elsewhere. victor, christi. >> the caliphate is gone, but the ideology is not. ben wedeman in eastern syria, thank you so much. right now, attorney general bill barr has the mueller report in front of him. he said he may handle over the principal conclusions to lawmakers today or tomorrow. a cnn source said house democrats are expected to have a conference call at 3:00 today. thats where chairs of the relevant committees are going to brief them on the report. >> heres the bottom line and the m...

Did yesterday when they released bill barrs letter to the congressional leadership over there? they simultaneously released it to you and the press. will they do the same as far as we know today? >> reporter: it is quite possible. it was within minutes that attorney general bill barr issued that letter to congress, then we got it publicly in the prints after. bill barr has been clear, he wants this process transparent as possible. it is possible that as soon as he issues conclusions in writing t...

Consult with mueller on. so that means that there is much more than just some tight conclusions, that there may be some very big information. we dont know of course whether this report says that the president is guilty but we cant indict him because of office of legal counsel policy. we know that its likely he did not ask for permission to indict because that would have no doubt been refused and so there would have been a disagreement that would have had to be reportable. but the report could al...

This president has willfully lied to the american people from the beginning and hes obstructed justice, i think that it would be -- its important that we make honesty and transparency and the integrity of the office and issue in this campaign. i think by that standard, trump doesnt measure up, and how he handles the release of this report will speak volumes as to whether or not hes someone who can be -- the public -- deserves the public trust, which i dont think he does. >> the president obstruc...

Because were already hearing from democrats in congress saying they need to release the entire report. >> theyre saying we dont just want the report, what mueller handed in today but look at the underlying documents. its true another conclusion could be reached by someone else by looking at those same documents. however, barr made clear in his letter today hes just going to provide as early as this weekend the principle conclusions. what does that mean? we know robert muellers mandate was to lin...

With -- but nothing they did was improper under doj rules or unethical. and i think mueller is a great public servant. ive never agreed with him about everything, but hes a man of integrity. and the irony is, this will end up helping the very man that attacked him relentlessly -- president trump. no one has ever accused mueller of being anything other than thorough. he said there is no crime connected with collusion. >> laura: it is kind of ironic, in the end, it looks like mueller, his conclusi...

General. >> now, the white house may be feeling confident about the report at this point but we have to remember that this investigation did uncover that there were 16 trump associates who had contact with russians that time and time again when they had these alarming contacts, things you might have reported to the fbi in a normal campaign, they decided to pursue the dirt that was being offered to them, to take the meeting, and over and over again they lied about these interactions. so this coul...

Special counsel sought to do that bill barr stopped mueller from doing. and thats fascinating. of course, everybody would like to hear that from robert mueller as well as from bill barr but at this point its only bill barr who is speaking on muellers behalf. robert mueller is still at this point publicly silent, as he has been from the very beginning, although well have more on that in a moment. here is more from the letter, though. "the special counsel has submitted to me today a quote confiden...