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One important dynamic that changed, today at the hill we had a new poll for the first time the majority of americans support investigating the fbi conduct in the start of the russia investigation. that is a sea change in public sentiment, the american public is on to the skwam that was going on here. >> sean: its lease sign of the great investigative work you, sarah, gregg, im going to forget, jeannine, ill miss 100 names. youve been on this for over two-plus years. because of the important inve...

Have placed has given them an excuse to not argue for impeachment. on the campaign trail theyve said wait until mueller released his report and then well decide. thats going to open up this huge debate among democrats, depending on whats in the report and how strong it is, how that changes and how nancy pelosi, who has been on the record saying, no, the ballot box is where we need to focus this, not impeaching him in congress. if theres damaging bombshells in there, how does she remaneuver into ...

Scrutiny. ongoing investigations, several begun with information handed off by the special counsels office include whether there was any illegal foerreign financingf the trump inaugural committee, whether the trump administration committed tax fraud. youve done a ton of reporting on this, the spin-offs. roughly a dozen we know. which means theres also stuff we dont know. as the white house is happy to close this chapter, mueller is over, but -- >> yeah, and the president and his allies have like...

Something they can use to their advantage if theres nothing, you know, extraordinary in it. and i think they believe by the fact there are no further indictments that they can -- they are safe on that ground. but they are going to use this to try to force democrats off message from all these other issues and on to this issue of impeachment and the mueller report and so on and so forth. it will be an odd dynamic. maybe a reverse dynamic from what weve seen. >> interesting to see by days end we sh...

The report. while we do know mueller has handed off a lot of clues to other prosecutors were not certain of the true extent of it. not certain how many avenues of investigation remain open and their potential threat to the president, even as the special counsels service comes to a close. appreciate you all getting up early on a sunday morning. well goet to the politics late. lets go through what we know and dont know starting with, where are they. they hoped to give us a summary yesterday. any i...

>> what does that mean? >> bill barr knew when he was nominated to this position and when he was sworn into this position that the decisions he was going to make this weekend and in the coming days were the most important decisions that he would ever make. this is his second tour as attorney general. he didnt have to take this job. he didnt have to come in and take this difficult job a second time. he did it, and he knew this was the point. so i tend to think that friday when they determined tha...

Reviewing the report filed friday by special counsel robert mueller. theyll be back at it today with the goal of sharing a summary of the major findings by days end. house democrats say a summary isnt good enough and are threatening a subpoena fight if attorney general barr is not willing to share the report in full and soon. ag barr just five weeks into his second stint at attorney general who announced friday that after nearly two years on the job, 675 days, the special counsel has submitted t...

Now word there will be no more indictments from muellers office is enough for some trump allies to claim victory. >> if theres no collusion that was found, then it strongly vindicates president trump, but it raises those serious questions about who is going to be held accountable at the fbi, the bad actors that had a political agenda which goes against everything law enforcement is supposed to be about. >> im going to be a broken record. congressman scalise has no idea whats in the mueller repor...

And to also say, wait a second, its okay for you to not say anything because we just dont know whats in this report. so far theyve been successful but, i mean, its sunday. well see what happens. >> in his political branding from the beginning has been no collusion and its all about mueller. all about what he calls the witch hunt. hes still a little anxious. one chapter is closing. he knows about all the congressional investigations and theyll try to go after muellers work product. he knows about...

Wrote as his top line conclusions and then determining what version of that, how they want to edit it to prepare to release it to the public. while rod rosenstein has been overseeing this probe for a very long time, bill barr has only been there for a couple of weeks. so he is sort of diving in on this full on and its, again, we all wish we got it yesterday, but it is an ambitious timeline still to aim for the end of the day today. >> from the original rosenstein memo, parts of it redacted. we d...