The 2020 campaign tomorrow on collude to live will read fair and balanced as always. Well have your back, even on weekends. Here comes the five. Juan hello, everyone, im Juan Williams along with emily, dana, jesse watters, and dr. Greg gutfeld. The white house, washington, all of america, waiting on the Mueller Report. Anticipation growing as all signs point to the russia probe results being released very soon. Its not even out yet, but everybody thinks they have an opinion on what it all means for President Trump. There are indictments in this president s future. The idea that somehow Robert Mueller is harry potter and this
report is a wad that fixes everything, all we have to do is wait for mueller, is going to prove to be illadvised on the part of democrats. I think it would be more descriptive, more active, to quit calling it the cohen report when it comes out, but its more like a mueller dossier. We can put it next to the 2016 election, a little thing like barry bonds, will there be an the president would say it clear his helm. I think thats a safe, political expectation to make here. Juan here is the president on what he thinks the public will take it. I have a deputy to make a determination on my presidency . People will not stand for it. Now, for all of that, two years weve gone with this nonsense because there is no collusion with russia and theres no obstruction for theyll say, wait, there was no collusion,
that was a hoax, but he can tell that obstructed inviting the hoax. Juan thats just the beginning. Democrats launching their old trump related investigations. However, according to the daily beast, trumps lawyers but preparing to tell democrats to go blank themselves. Democrats will just be wasting everyones time. Jesse williams vehicle a continuation of the sandwich hug. They know it its just a continuation of the same nonsense. They ought to go to work, get infrastructure. Gov i get a lot of other things. Instead of wasting everybodys time. Dana the Spieler Report has been delivered, but t know any details yet, whether itll be a matter of hours, days, weeks, months, we just
dont know. Jessica moore are we . Jesse Colin Mueller took too long. Kind of like the guy at the barbecue, and he burns the meat. You say, i waited two years for this this is terrible i honestly dont think the rest of the country outside of the swamp and the partisans really care about the Mueller Report. They care about the brackets for the ncaa. They care about spring vacation. They care about whats on netflix. With that said, if there was real collusion, it would be linked by now. Thats for a fact for the report comes back into looks like the media is trying to set expectations for the democrats that have trump derangement syndrome, that there is no collusion, i dont know what they are going to do. Is there going to be soulsearching by the democrats in the media and say what have we done the last two years with this conspiracy . I dont think they will because the media is going to cover up their mistakes. The new conspiracy will be that whatever bar the new ag says or doesnt say, hes going to be hiding something. As you know, the rules say he doesnt have to disclose everything, so they are going to say there is collusion but barr wont tell us what it is and itll go on and on and on. Juan this is a fox news alert. Robert mueller has submitted his report to Attorney General william barr. The Special Counsel has been probing alleged russian interference in 2016 election for the past 21 months. The move theyll setting up a potential showdown over how much of it will be made public. Barr indicated hell send his own summary of the findings to Congress Rather than muellers actual report. While democrats have threatened to subpoena mueller to testify publicly about what he found. Muellers team has either indicted, convicted, or gotten guilty pleas from 34 people in
three companies, including six former trump advisors and or associates. Dana, we just dont know whos been indicted, who has been exonerated, but the president in talking with Maria Bartolotta this morning says people will not stand for it if it indicates that there is some wrongdoing because he continues to say it was a witch hunt. Dana i want to take a step back and say of course the media covers the angle that was their trump collusion, trump involvement, that has been with the media. Frankly weve been talking about it. Remember, the genesis of the report, it wasnt dealings on behalf of the trumps. It was about the russians and attempted influence and basically trying to disrupt our election. And we know from our Intelligence Agencies and the and the department of homeland securitys, those efforts by the russians continue to this day and we are heading into an important election. Setting aside how russia try to get involved with these people if there was involvement, et cetera, i think this report could be quite instructive about what we need to do to protect our elections going forward. Like how big that threat is. I think thats even more important than anything else. Because we, obviously our country is surviving. We arent in a confrontational crisis. Going forward, if people do not trust the outcome of an election, it all could fall apart. Juan thats a great point. Dana thank you. Juan john roberts with us now. Expecting shortly a statement from the president s lawyers, jay sekulow and Rudy Giuliani. Earlier this morning, the president said he had no idea, he was in the dark like the rest of us with the report might come out, but he was doing his best when leaving from maralago this morning to discredit the Mueller Investigation yet again and whatever the contents of the report might be, saying that there was no collusion and there
was a witch hunt. We do not know what the process is going to be, the Special Counsels office has delivered it as it has to by statute to the Attorney General. The Attorney General will now review with and decide what will be sent to congress, if anything will be sent to congress, what might be made public, if anything will be made public. Barr said during his Confirmation Hearings hell do his best to make as much of the report public is possibly could. Theres also a potential here for the white house to get involved. If there is no material in the report that is subject to Executive Privilege, the white house might not ask to see it. But if there is material contained in the report that is subject to Executive Privilege, thats the white House Counsel here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, they may put a request in the ripped Department Of Justice to review it to waive Executive Privilege of the items that might be included in an order to request
read the actions and itll be up again to william barr and his team to make those reductions or to decide if the redactions will be read to congress and the public. Its also possible because dont forget that this is all within the same branch of government. The office of the Special Counsel is appointed by the Department Of Justice, which is part of the administration. So this is all under article 2 of the constitution. It would be under the president s purview and his authorization to request to sng. Im told thats the least likely scenario. For now, this is in the hands of the Attorney General and well see what william barr decides to do with it. The president said this morning that he has full faith in the Attorney General and that he believes he will make the right decision on what to do next. Juan . Juan john roberts at the white house. John, thank you very much. To recap those of you just joining come of Robert Muellerthe board report has been submitted to the Department Of Justice. We are joined by Catherine Herridge in our washington bureau. Im going to head down to the Justice Department, but weve got some information, the ticktock of events over the last hour. We have confirmed a letter was sent to the chairman and Ranking Members of the senate and house Judiciary Committees notifying them to the Special CounselRobert Mueller investigation was completed. Let me just read from that text, says Special CounselRobert Mueller the third has concluded in the investigation of russian interference. Delma. Attorney general william barr says, he may be in a position to advise you, the committee, of the Special Counsels printable conclusions as soon this weekend. This is the first time that weve indication that the Attorney General may be able to move very quickly in terms of releasing some information and the findings to congress with
what weve seen in the letters so far a timetable for a public release. This will process theyll make this whole process will be governed by something called 2600 cfr, its very explicit that the notifications to congress of the findings, its a little more vague, on whether thats a summary from the Attorney General or he can include some of the raw data, if you will come up from the Mueller Report. The other thing thats often neglected in this discussion which is stipulated in the regulations is that there is a requirement by the Justice Department to notify congress of any actions that Special CounselRobert Mueller wanted to take but was blocked from taking by the Attorney General or in the Acting Attorney General. Thats the other thing to really watch. Again, to recap, things have moved very quickly in the last hour. My contact said they were notified of a short notice
meeting on capitol hill, republicans and democrats, on the house Judiciary Committee, that it would involve the Justice Department, and that we have confirmation of a letter to the Ranking Members and chairman of those committees that the Mueller Report is now complete, juan. Emily i have a question. It might be a timing thing. When you said that the Attorney General said as soon as this weekend really something, a couple of weeks ago there were rumors that this report had been delivered to the Attorney General. Do you think it is possible that that is true, the Attorney General has had this report and that is why they are making this is not been late on a friday night and they think they can turn on something and he was just receiving it that he could turn something around that quickly by sunday . Dana if you look at the regulations, its very specific about what has to be provided to congress. It has to provide a catalog and, if you will of the prosecutions that were brought and also what
they called declinations. These are decisions not to proceed with criminal prosecutions because they feel like they dont have sufficient evidence to do so. That is not a lengthy document that goes into the underlying evidence. The reason i mention that it is the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein was very clear in a letter to senator grassley, the former head of the Senate Judiciary committee, when he said in effect that he didnt want to repeat the same mistakes that were made in 2016, that its not the departments position to release information that is damaging to individuals who are never prosecuted for any crimes in the future. That was in reference, and its cited in the letter, to the former fbi director james comey and his decision to publicly discuss the findings in the clinton email case, but to recommend against criminal prosecutions. So the long action, to your concise question, is that when you look at the regulations, its entirely possible to
deliver bare bones of whats required in a very short time frame. The unknown and all of this is whether the Attorney General william barr will in fact go further because he has some discretion to provide Additional Information and that do so and t the heart, if you will, or the main element of his testimony during the Confirmation Hearings, that he pledged to that to the extent he was able to come up dana. Juan we want to now go to shannon bream. Our Supreme Court reporter. Shannon, we are very interested in the future legal fight facing the president. No matter what happens with this report, you know there are other things that are bubbling out there that could be very problematic for the president on a legal field. You think about the cases that are pending in the Southern District of new york. The investigations going on there. There are all kinds of things at the state level in new york that have come with respect to the Trump Organization and foundation and other things that the Attorney General has said they are looking into. Regardless whether this concludes the Rush Of Collusion part of the investigation, there are many other things the white house is still going to have to manage on the legal front. One thing to watch for here, its possible as parts of the findings of the Special Counsel eventually are meted out first to top level congressional level leaders and dont forget the Attorney General here, barr says he wants to get as much of it to the public as he can responsively do with any kind of classified information, its possible that he at may some point can subpoena the Special Counsel or the report itself to have them come before them. So there is still a lot of potential legal pitfalls here for the administration, but the president if he feels vindicated and cleared by this report will have plenty to celebrate on that front. It just means there are other issues they are still going to have to Pay Attention to aside from this report. Juan dana, you want to
jump back in . Dana we know several people have been leading the Mueller Investigation to go back to their jobs. We know there is a possibility and this is what you mean, maybe there will be no more indictments from mueller, but other investigations that are underway and it could continue . About whats going on, the federal and the state level based out of new york, there are plenty of things going on thats where we saw these cases Michael Michael with Michael Cohen going on, charities, different things, the Trump Organization. A lot of things were spun off to some of these other places. Some of them were originated themselves and he in anyways. But there is a lot. Dana i think Catherine Herridge has some more. I want to tell you the department has communicated to the congressional committees
that have direct oversight. Just a few minutes ago, we talked about how the Attorney General had told them and im reading here, he may also be in a position to advise you, the committee, of a Special Counsels principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. Remember, we talked about whether there would be more information for the coming . I have part of that answer. The letter continues from Attorney General william barr, separately, i intend to consult with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and Special Counsel mueller to determine what other information from the report can be released to congress and the public consistent with the law, including the Special Counsel regulations and the departments longstanding practices and policies. Let me just read Between The Lines here for you. Whats been too indicated to congress is that the Attorney General can tell them as soon as his weekend the kind kind of barebones bottomline findings i