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For now, this is all that congress is going to get. the attorney general saying its going to take a while to see how much more i can give you. >> pete williams, reporting for us. reading directly from the summary that was sent to lawmakers on capitol hill. jerry nadler called it a brief summary and that it was, and he laid out the headlines. julia ainsley is with us. one thing i still have a question on, julia. we joined pete slightly late. whether mueller found any evidence of conspiracy. >> gl...

Justice department official that there will be no more indictments be threw is still a lot that the not known. this is where the battle will shift to capitol hill and we are expecting there to be a lot of negotiations and discussion, because we heard that there is a lot-of-bipartisan calls for transparency here. thats where the question will remain. >> and questions about whether mueller will be called to testify to congress and ag bar every as well? >> thats right. i think we can see the congre...

And why mueller may not have been able to convict on that? >> it definitely means mueller may not have been able to convict. what that means -- actually, if the hill calls him to testify, now the issue is does don junior have fifth amendment privilege and would he have to testify in front of congress? there were other people involved in that meeting as well. we dont know, also, whether mueller referred that to the u.s. attorneys office in d.c. for any perjury action against don junior. we dont k...

Alleged to be involved are actual crimes for which michael cohen has been found guilty. that said, there are concerns about what donald trump is doing as president or under what influence he may be as president. adam schiff seems to be indicating theyre more interested in that. >> yeah. so i think schiff is on to something really important as the nation awaits the mueller report. it is important for everyone to know muellers mandate is a criminal mandate and sometimes a counter intelligence mand...

As president or under what influence he may be as president. adam schiff seems to be indicating theyre more interested in that. >> yeah. so i think schiff is on to something really important as the nation awaits the mueller report. it is important for everyone to know muellers mandate is a criminal mandate and sometimes a counter intelligence mandate, but it is not going to get into all the stuff about whether mueller -- whether trump lied about the russians, for example, in 2016 when he said he...

Court -- >> thats the audience of one. judge ellis said you should apologize. so after the last sentencing, trump came out and echoed the words of manaforts lawyer. >> theres absolutely no evidence that paul manafort was involved with any collusion with any government official from russia. >> his lawyer went out of the way to say no collusion with russia. >> so that wasnt about collusion at all. it was about bank and tax fraud. yet, the quakts this alleged russian agent with material to muellers...

National security threat. thats what we need to keep our eye on. not just the bar of criminal behavior. it may not be the driving determining thing that you it could be. >> we dont know difinitively. ill tell you that. but there seem to be fewer road blocks in the way of mueller issuing a report. there will be status reports soon. cooperators, the roger stone trial will go forward. you have the manafort sentencing tomorrow. it seems to me things are getting tied up and maybe this is a moment for...

The ruling comes early tomorrow and she has complete discretion over whether it will run on top of or concurrent with the 47 months manafort received last week from virginia based federal judge. it shocked everyone with its leniency. ellis had been critical of the special counsel. during the trial, he even questioned whether muellers team overstepped its authority saying you dont really care about manaforts bank fraud. you care about what information mr. manafort can give that you would reflect ...

Tonight a warning. if the bob mueller report is not made public, the house could go and do it all over again. heres the house intelligence chairman adam schiff. >> if the department opts to document a new policy,ment son to put forward a double standard and deprive the congress of this evidence, it will mean that the congress will have to re-create everything the mueller investigation did. >> "outfront" now, from rhode island who sits on the senate judiciary committee. its been 18 months. i dont...

Attorney general. >> thank you all very much. president trump going on offense as new york investigators target one of the only bank thats would do business with him. a bank that could be central to his political future. plus, a top democrat with this warning. if muellers report is not made public -- >> congress will have to re-create everything the mueller investigation did. >> and he once said this about impeaching bill clinton. >> bits determining whether he is fit to lead the country and tha...