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Really ready for that. theres nothing else to do but wait a little bit. >> along those lines, we were going to put this up on the screen. we were showing you earlier "the washington post," "the new york times" there both out with some new reporting tonight related to this, the fallout from this. this from devlin barrett, one of the reporters, a national security reporters with "the washington post." we quoted from his story earlier. this is how he summarized his story. for those trying to parse ...

Meetings with william barr, saying that he wont mess with the mueller investigation, but if democrats want to check that themselves, the democrats are not being allowed to meet with barr themselves because of the shutdown. this news has just crossed in the past few minutes. joining us now is devlin barrett, national security reporter for "the washington post" who broke this story. mr. barrett, its nice to have you with us tonight. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> so that str...

Intention of creating a smooth transition once barr is confirmed, assuming hes confirmed as the attorney general. sort of the unknown factor in all this, though, is no one is really quite certain when a final mueller report is going to surface, and if that were to surface around this time, i think, frankly, that could change rosensteins calculation. and, frankly, it could change barrs calculation, because, frankly, one of the things we know is that barr wants his own people there and that would ...

Meet with them due to the ongoing government shutdown. so republican senators are making promises based on their meetings with william barr, saying that he wont mess with the mueller investigation, but if democrats want to check that themselves, the democrats are not being allowed to meet with barr themselves because of the shutdown. this news has just crossed in the past few minutes. joining us now is devlin barrett, national security reporter for "the washington post" who broke this story. mr....

>> well, look, i think whats been described to us certainly is that rosenstein has the intention of creating a smooth transition once barr is confirmed, assuming hes confirmed as the attorney general. sort of the unknown factor in all this, though, is no one is really quite certain when a final mueller report is going to surface, and if that were to surface around this time, i think, frankly, that could change rosensteins calculation. and, frankly, it could change barrs calculation, because, fra...

Overcharged the inaugural committee for events at trump properties in order to funnel more money into the family business. so how was your week? joining us now to help make sense of this whirlwind week in mueller investigation is devlin barrett, a reporter with the washington post who focuses on national security and law enforcement. mr. barrett, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> sure, thank you. >> so how unusual is it, just as a matter of reportage, for a defendant, who is already ad...

And normally what would happen in a case involving prosecutors, in a case involving a complex investigation, you would not sentence those cooperators until after they had provided the full service, meaning after they had testified at trial against someone else. and so for a lot of lawyers, theyre scratching their heads about that a little bit. some lawyers believe thats an indication that mueller is actually a couple months away from issuing a final report, and that these cooperators are probabl...

Just dont know yet how to respond to the special counsels allegation that manafort violated his plea agreement by lying and committing additional crimes. the presidents lawyer was sentenced to three years in prison, partly for crimes he says were directed by the president to commit. we learned of the media company that worked with the presidents lawyer in committing those crimes as a nonprosecution agreement with federal prosecutors. we learned that the presidents inaugural committee is under cr...

More money into the family business. so how was your week? joining us now to help make sense of this whirlwind week in mueller investigation is devlin barrett, a reporter for "the washington post" who focuses on national security and law enforcement. mr. barrett, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> sure, thank you. >> so how unusual is it, just as a matter of reportage, for a defendant, who is already admitted to lying to the fbi to respond to being told, well, we dont want to put you in...

After they had provided the full service, meaning after they had testified at trial against someone else. and so for a lot of lawyers, theyre scratching their heads about that a little bit. some lawyers believe thats an indication that mueller is actually a couple months away from issuing a final report, and that these cooperators are probably never going to appear at a trial. other lawyers, frankly look at this same fact pattern and say well, mueller may be rolling the dice a little bit here, b...