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Written form. we know that he wrote two letters to bill barr. when you look at what were going to hear this morning, do you expect in any way those disagreements and those unusual r letters, including this statement mueller saying to barr at the time a private letter that barr summary didnt capture the context, nature and substance of muellers work and conclusions. do you see that as a jumping off point for todays remarks at 11:00? >> that i dont know. i mean, we have reported just recently that...

Guardian, alleged there an indictment, draft indictment for charges of obstruction against president trump, sitting on robert muellers desk. this is not true and will be denied but that is not what robert mueller is addressing today. what he is going to address, we have no information on that now. but youre absolutely right, just the idea of robert mueller after two years of silence and sitting in the shadows and conducting this investigation into secret appearing before the cameras and hearing ...

Possible he could be addressing this ongoing negotiation that he is having with democrats about whether he should appear publicly or as he prefers, should give most of his testimony behind closed doors. one thing i can tell you that this is not about, chris, is that report yesterday about michael wolffs book alleging that there was a draft indictment of donald trump for obstruction of justice. something that robert muellers team denied the moment that story appeared. he will not be addressing th...

Do not exist. that is a pretty blatant, but a pretty categorical denial by peter karr. it a rare statement as you suggested. we receive very few on the record statements during the course of robert muellers investigation and fairly definitive. it also just doesnt make a lot of sense. mueller was clear in his report that the idea of indicting the president was just not something they went down that path. they did not go down the path of figuring out whether they could or should because this offic...

Was in the meeting at trump tower. hes not going to be indicted. jared kushner. hes not going to be indicted. >> its a really, really good thing not to be indicted. thats true. and you know, theres been all sorts of accusations swirling around donald trump junior and jared kushner and the conservative writer even presented with a draft indictment and they have now backed away. its also a tribute to rob rosenstein that they let him do what he had to do. on the other hand, i do think its important...

For himself. the ball is in his court now. but i do think they moved the goal post a little bit but i dont think anybody is going to pay attention to that this weekend. >> you said this before. this is a good night certainly for the president and his family, you know, for don junior was in the meeting at trump tower. hes not going to be indicted. jared kushner. hes not going to be indicted. >> its a really, really good thing not to be indicted. thats true. and you know, theres been all sorts of ...

For instance, why wasnt don junior interviewed? we need an answer to that. adam schiff said he believes he percenta perjured himself in front of his committee. we need to know the answer bob mueller gave a draft indictment. we need to know the answer. why is that? we need to know about all of these declanation decisions made. for everybody else, and for the basic obstruction question, we are going to need to hear from bob mueller and hear the whole report. people say he doesnt have to give the r...

Towerrussians, they can breathe easily? >> exactly. its very important to be fair here. a lot of people have said the democratic equivalent of lock her up. they have been saying, lock up donald trump junior, lock up jared kushner. jerome corsi had a draft indictment presented to him, the conservative writer. we now know that robert mueller is not indicting these people. i think its just -- its the only fair thing to do is to point out that that is a very significant development and it is very go...

This is really good news for a lot of people around donald trump. donald trump junior, jared kushner, jerome corsi, the writer who had a draft indictment presented to him by muellers office and they decided not to go forward with this. lets be fair here. there has been a lot of suspicion around certain people. a lot of negative things have been said. mueller has said, i am not proceeding. there is no better news to receive than you are not being indicted by the united states government. >> you o...

Muellers investigation has strayed a lot as well, a lot of what michael cohen is charged with has nothing to do with his initial charge. do you think he strayed too far, quickly? >> i dont know that hes actually strayed in fact i would object to your premise. we had add-ons and it may very well be that what we dont know david schweikert is had he had additional things added to his plate because hes an officer of the justice department. i had things added to my plate and the same may be true with...