Well. Jon meacham, always such a pleasure to have him as part of our broadcast, especially on a consequential friday night. That is our broadcast indeed for this friday and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Have a good weekend. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. A couple of hours ago, maybe even less than that, i was standing knee deep in a trout stream in tennessee. But now its mueller time and so im in a studio in the great state of tennessee. The trout are basically just as safe as they were when i was flailing away at them ineffectually this afternoon. But now it is listen, its this is history. This is a reason to stop fishing and go to work. Our job tonight as a country sort of or at least what
everybody in the country is going to be doing tonight is trying to figure out what it means that the report of special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally been submitted. Weve heard it said so many times that it was imminent, that it was done, maybe it
when. but after two years of almost entirely just questions about what mueller is doing, some answers will start to emerge now. we get actually quite a bit from the letter that attorney general bill barr did send to the chairs of those committees, to democratic congressman jerry nadler in the house and republican senator lindsey graham in the senate, those are the two judiciary chairs. the letter was addressed to the ranking members, to doug collins, the top republican and dianne feinstein, who s the top democrat on the committee in the senate. it s addressed to those four people. the letter is just one page. and it does actually give us kind of a lot. here s how it starts. dear chairman graham, chairman nadler, ranking member feinstein and ranking member collins, i write to notify you pursuant to the special counsel regulation that s special counsel robert s. mueller iii has concluded his investigation of russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters. under the speci