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He and a small handful of aides are looking through that. its not being circulated around the entire department. doj officials want to make sure there isnt classified information before releasing it to the congress or releasing it to the public. special counsel mueller has been deliberate since he took over the investigation almost two years ago to keep this thing from leaking to the public. many would say hes done a good job because we still dont know exactly whats in the report but that hasnt ...

>> reporter: the president back at mar-a-lago after he spent the morning and part of the afternoon golfing at the trump international hotel. he has aides with him there including ro earth lighthizer. lighthizer will be leaving for beijing next week. the president will be huddling with lighthizer to develop a final strategy before they head off for what the president hopes will be the beginning of a process which will bring xi-jinping to mar-a-lago to sign the final trade deal between the united ...

Was on going. so yes, there could be very small things but i think the most important point is this investigation began as a counter intelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. it went to look at the question of whether people were acting as agents of a foreign power. that information needs to be made public and if we need to do declassified information in the interest of transparency and not sacrifice methods, we should do that, too. >> what are you going to do if barr says no? if...

And pore specttierspectives. they want full far range criminal investigations, very narrow, very focused. theyre meant to be opaque except when you get to court? hopefully, they dont have to get to court. theyre speaking to public opinion and whims as well. nothing that they can sell more than a talking point in 2020. the word impeachment, none of the democratic leaders want to utter yet. they want something indisputable. they are looking at corruption of justice, mishandling of your office, tha...

And answer -- >> you know who said nasty things about mueller the last two years, the president of the united states, tweeting about a hoax, a witch hunt and all of that kind of stuff, just hired a bunch of democrats to be his prosecutors. >> he had concerns about him, no question about it. >> congressman chris stewart, thanks for coming in. appreciate it very much. chris stewart of utah. up next, the attorney general is over at the justice department now. he could share robert muellers princi...

Collision evidence is a good thing and we should be happy if there is a clear report. and it should extend to both sides of the aisle. >> there is you know, there are no further indictments coming. we do know that. but we dont know much else about what is in this report. are you going to be -- you said the whole thing should be made public. but when the primary conclusions, these you know, first conclusions are released tomorrow, how much longer is it going to take until you get what you want? t...

Get the information and documents that are necessary to do our oversight work. >> a couple more questions? >> i just want to know, do you plan to call robert mueller before your committee? theres been a lot of questions whether he would testify, whether hed need to testify, but is there any plan in place to potentially call him to come and answer some questions? >> well, as you know that decision will be ult amtalimate the chairman of the committee. i will argue vociferously we need to do that. ...

Because this concept of what are the principle conclusions, thats not a legal definition. thats up to him. >> do you see him doing that? >> i think it will be a little bit watered down and also of course theres a lot of counter intelligence issues still going on so he could easily say i cant really talk about it. >> thats the big thing here. the white house wants to see this before it goes anywhere else. the president hasnt said anything yet but we know for the past two weeks hes been quizzing h...

Six in about two years. other presidents have had that in a second term and barack obama went eight years and none of his advisors. and around 5:00 p.m. that bob muraler was going to finningiis entire probe without incident. >> aside from talking about principal conclusions, he says this. this is sort of directed bay the regulations at isue. he says the special counsel regulations -- the attorney general concluded a action was unwarranted that it should not be pursued. there were no such instanc...

Actions with his advisers as president. this is central to the obstruction of justice. if the white house is going to assert executive privilege about any of his communications as president, well, thats really going to be the fight over what the mueller report found on the issue of obstruction of justice, which we know has been a major part of the mueller investigation. thats one thing im looking forward to, not only in the summary but in the future. >> where do you think -- how long is it going...