indictments get filed under seal. when they re ready to be unsealed, they are. i took it to mean not only will the special counsel not be bringing any new indictments, but there aren t any remaining under seal that will be made public in the coming days. that doesn t mean there won t be other charges from other department of justice agencies. i think we re at the end. there was an unusual number, high number of indictments that are under seal right there in the d.c. area. yamiche, the president has repeatedly claimed there was no collusion. some critics of the probe complain that mueller in concluding the investigation proves it. where are we right now? the president has been waiting for two years to have an idea of what robert mueller found in his report. now he s a little bit closer to actually finding that. people i ve been talking to in the trump circle and who have been talking to the president says he s glad this is finally
end these legal questions around him. if anything, i think the southern district investigations are his greater problem. it seems to more directly touch his business, his associates and potentially trump himself. that doesn t mean there won t be something in the mueller report that won t be damaging to him. we just don t know. that s more of a political question probably for congress. but this is a president i think who is having to come to grips with the fact that the next two years of his presidency are going to continue to look probably even worse in terms of these legal questions than the first two. think about all the different crimes michael cohen alleged the president engaged in. bank fraud, insurance fraud, tax fraud, campaign finance violations and charity self-dealing. there are a number of areas where democrats can pull on those strings and decide how much they want to investigate. even after robert mueller wrapped up his report and says whether or not there was russia col
own open testimony that s public. one of the questions we know will be asked is why he lied in the past about his about the trump moscow project. about trying to build a trump tower or hotel in moscow. and, of course, the big question there would be was he directed by the president? just because we don t expect the report here this week doesn t mean there won t still be russia-related news, and one thing i think we could read into is we re being told not to expect it this week, but it s known here, a degree of timing. it s not something coming six months from now. they re preparing for it here. they seem to have some idea of the time line, more than we have at this point. we just know it s not in the next five days. all eyes are going to be on capitol hill on wednesday. that is for sure, because that testimony could be significant. geoff bennett, julia ainsley, thank you to both of you for your great reporting. and with me now, kim, former assistant u.s. attorney and former associa
there s enough information in the public record about trump s efforts at witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, that mueller could easily write a report that goes right to congress and that kind of clicks off the buttons about high crimes and misdemeanors standard for impeachment. he doesn t think a sitting president can be indicted under those doj policy guidelines, but that doesn t mean there won t be in this report considerable evidence of criminality by the president of the united states. paul butler, thank you. mimi rocah, thank you as well. mr. rucker, thank you. some breaking news on this thursday. facing a felony, empire star jussie smollett in custody facing charges after prosecutors say he made the whole thing up. in the last hour, the chicago police department delivering a scathing statement. we are live in chicago with the latest as the actor prepares for court roughly three hours from
number two on a ticket. who do we know about those reports? craig, one thing i think people should know about biden s political operation is that his inner circle is as small as his outer circle is big. there are a lot of people who might say they re affiliated with him. i ve gotten flat denials that they ve been approached. i should mention from my time covering congress when beto o rourke was in congress and my time covering the vice president, there is a friendship there. they worked together when rourke was one of the few democrats in congress supporting the trans-pacific partnership. not yet, but that doesn t mean it s not something we might hear about if and when the vice president enters the race. how likely is it that you think he runs, mike? the vice president is telling people 80%, 90% he s likely to run. if we learned anything about the vice president to getting to