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States, if mueller finds information out that says this, absolutely the attorney general, here barr, has the discretion to turn the report over the congress. indeed, he has to. the overall intent of the regulations thats said time and time again is public confidence in the administration of justice. and any sort of suppressed report of presidential wrong doing will flunk that test. >> let me read part two. its barr to congress. it says this, the attorney general will notify the chairman and rank...

Look at michael flynn. he had already told people in the administration he was going to talk to the russians in the transition period. >> and he apparently told andy mccabe he knew they were listening. >> he reads a story in "the washington post" saying hes under investigation for the logan act and tells something allegedly untrue to vice president pence and lies to the government about it. why? its a big mystery why some of the people did lie. but yes, we should absolutely be concerned. >> i wa...

Lastly, i think the mueller report will end with unfinished business. campaign violations, opposition research that stone and others got from the foreign governments. there will be a lot to look into. i couldnt agree more with heather. this will be a bar set where people will compare conduct in the future with what happened. >> andrea, i think the real question is going to be how serious is obstruction of justice to members of congress. thats what i think well find out. >> and perjury. these are...

Pike -- people like michael flynn, paul manafort. his campaign manager. michael cohen, his personal lawyer. so if this is a witch hunt, muellers found a coven at this point. there are smaller ones, like jerome corsi. he expects to be indicted. and bigger fish, as well. both on the indictment front and then you have questions about whats the report going to say? and the like. >> and i want to get to that. sol, rudy giuliani said he hasnt heard from the special counsels office in about a month sin...

And lonnie chen of stanford university. welcome to "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. well take a look today at what to expect when youre expecting -- the mueller report. from the moment he was appointed special counsel two years ago, washington has existed in a kind of a political limbo. the white house has been working overtime to discredit the investigation why while democrats are dreaming of a waterga...

Russia did? and finally, the biggest question of all, was there quote, collusion, a conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. >> there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. there was no anything. so thats the nice part. there was no phone calls. >> reporter: the presidents lawyer has been less definitive. >> i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. >> yes, you have. >> i have not. i said the president of the united states. >> joini...

Discession as to how much hes going to reveal. hes already said im going to reveal as much as i can. one of the interesting questions is, how will mueller present his report to barr. mueller, in my opinion, will do a very thorough report. he can do it in a way if he wants to that makes it easier for barr to release it to the public. >> will we see bob mueller testify in front of congress? >> its certainly possible. i think there will be pressures against that because of privilege and so on. and ...

And makes landfall on fifth avenue, damaging only his business empire. and the model that republicans are hoping for. the dud of a storm. leaving democrats wet and embarrassed. no matter what we know that the report will not be turned over to william barr this week as many had expected. when the report is made available in some form to the public, the question is how many of our unanswered questions will finally be answered. >> what do you expect? >> i guess, from what i understand, that will be...

Domestic policy united statess at stanford university. heather mcghee from demos. and andrea mitchell and republican strategist al cardenas in his last sunday of bachelorhood. yes, i said that out loud. >> congratulations. >> well, i want to start with the mueller report here. not a lot of news in here, but i have to read the government literally threw the book at manafort. his deceit, a fundamental component of crimes of conviction and relevant conduct extended to tax preparers, bookkeepers. ba...

Have seen it already or will it be the grand finale? >> no, it could be coming. someone else might do it. mueller might do the setup piece for it. but look. we already have some of that information. mueller has indicted roger stone for conspiring with wikileaks. which is a russian front. he indicted papadopoulos for lying about meeting with russian agents before the e-mail scandal became known in april 2016. were starting to already see the outlines of a mueller report that does look like he is ...