Easi easily. I completely agree on the delassification like that. The sources and that set a new precedent. It will be different for the investigation, turning over materials to congress. You turned over thousands of pages, in the middle of the investigation, now that it is closed you cant tell me you have any reason to hang on to that similar information. So good news and bad news for you. Were not going anywhere. Thats the bad news, the good news is it is your table now. Well, is that what happens . 30 seconds, now im supposed to throw mtp daily. All right, so this is what
they call weird vamping in this business. A better handover in person. We should be doing it more often. We were told that at 5 00 if something was going to happen that right now, and this is what it says in the relevant regulation that if if is happening right now it is happening right now. There is a report of a brief notification with a outline of the reasons for him turning in the actions. So right now supposedly if it is happening, someone is briefing jerry nadler and Lindsey Graham with some form what could they be telling them . They could be telling them the investigation is finished, he is not bringing any further indictments, and what will they say about the other things about the president are we convinced there is no more indictments . No, but i would think if he
is turning in the report today it means that is the end of his work. It doesnt mean there is no indictments coming from other offices. There bha pieces of the nafgs are handed off. I think it means the Special Council riddle many this, there is a sealed indictment of assange. We have been just told that Attorney General Barr has the report. There it is, chuck . I saw a flash of light. You did . I got a wave. This is monumental. Robert mueller was appointed Special Council i think nine days after donald trump fired jim comey, 22 months ago, they had a goal of finishing before the two year mark, they met their goal, they have been trying to wrap, i think, for about a week. Folks are leaving, a few of the prosecutors have new jobs teaching and doing other things, their work is done. The Mueller Probe is officially
over, that report has been handed to the Attorney General, bill barr, former National Security official telling me he becomes the most important person in the country. And well be talking about bill barr as much as bob mueller. He completed another tour of duty. It is time to go home. Im sure they consult with the Attorney General. There are loose threads, things to finish. Im sure he will be asked to testify, but the pressure and the attention now switches to the Attorney General and what he does with this thing. Why dont we play what the Attorney General said at his confirmation hearing. Lets play that sound. Im told we dont have that yet. Our Control Rooms are still trying to figure it out, but he did okay, let me say the republican and congress will be informed of the specialCouncils Office. Barr says consistent with regulations and the law, yes. He says the special Council Report is a report by the Attorney General. He believes he will take this into his own hands, does that mean he writes his own version of this report . Is that how he could be reading that . I think which he do it one of two ways. And that could mean taking it and redacting classified information, it could be going to congress, it could mean taking out any jury information. It could also mean that he writes his second report all on his own. If i were him i think i wouldnt want to take on that new pressure to make this decision after bob mueller conducted a twoyear long investigation, someone, the American Public ought to have trust in, i want
the American Public to look at what his conclusions were, not my version of his conclusions. Chuck did a great job talking about the Changing Of The Guards, and now Attorney General Barr is really the most po important person in the world right now. But there is something else. Something else that we need to flag which is in a really something important happened in november that will play into this which is the Changing Of The Guards and the democratic house. Now the house has a big role to play as well. Making sure this report bec thi. What is the difference between declassification and redactions . My understanding of a Process Level is that once this step had been taken, once the report was transferred from muellers super
vision to barr that process begins, but they have not read through report. So that process is under way and it would be my guess no decision has been made about whether or not to follow redactions. Bob mueller could have been asked to produce an unclassified version of the report at the same time he produced a classified version. That happens as well. He was involved in the declassified version. I think what youre looking at it something that doesnt happen. And that is a way to slow on it. You have to be very careful. I will not put it through a
declassification process. It is an agreement for the staff that the White House Council reserves the right to exert Executive Privilege later. Lose interviews, i dont want them released to the public, that is a real test for bill barr. Will he fight the president in it is a big test. It was a changing of the guard. They spent 30 hours that we know of with Robert Mueller, they have a team now with more aggressive ideology. I hear that Jewelry Ainsley is ready at the Justice Department. You were told when you can go to
lunch or not. Robert mueller has concluded his information. At this moment the Justice Department is Alerting Congress that the investigation is over. Once william barr gets a chance to review the report, he will then submit that to congress and well be expecting that as soon as this weekend. Again, Robert Mueller concluded his investigation into ed mdlin election. We will give those conclusions to congress as soon as this weekend. Is there any reason to believe this means for sure there are no sealed indictments that get unsealed today . Anything like that or is that stuff we dont yet know . That is something that we dont yet know. Anything under seal we would not know about. We dont even know the
conclusion yet. We just know it is over and he brought this here. If there is other prosecutions they have to be spun out to different u. S. Attorneys offices. Robert mueller and his position of Special Council is over. The investigation has ended. So, chuck rosenberg, does that tell you anything about what you think is in this report, which does mean donald trump junior, for instance, should be like phew, dodged a bullet . I dont think he should exhale deeply yet. I always believed the Southern District of new york have a lot more running room than mueller did. It was a really important one, dont get me wrong, but it was much more narrow. In terms of what Southern District of new york could be looking at that includes the inaugural committee, the trump foundation, individual instances of financial fraud, plus the
campaign finance violations. I dont know if exhale deeply just yet. Nicole, do you think that democrats can sit and say the sdny or congress i dont think democrats are in the box. I think republicans have been check mated. I think they will have to look at a report from mueller that they had to claim when it was bill clinton that it was Obstruction Of Justice. Theyre older than dirt so they were all there with more hair. I think republicans are the ones in a box today. They will have to decide in the coming days and weeks if they give a you know what about corruption havent they already made that decision . None of us have read the report, we dont know what
informs there, if it details witness tampering, the lies were not about venezuela, canada, the u. K. , north korea, there may be some coming about north korea, they were about russia. I think we dismiss the findings at our own peril. I think it will be about rorwher or not republicans still care about Obstruction Of Justice and whether or not we see everything that mueller found. Let me check in with jeff bent bennett. The white house is ready with their statements and lawyers, how are they feeling. What do they know or dont know . How soon will they share report with the white house. When the Special Council did investigate that, they will be out with a statement. They have not recieved that statement yet, they travelled to
florida with the white house counsel, and Sarah Sanders who as i understand it was not expected to travel to florida this weekend. We also have not heard from the outside league team. Rudy giuliani was talks to some reporters, and we have seen President Trump himself really escalate this No Collusion Mantra he has been sticking to for weeks. He personally and professionally attacked Robert Mueller, he tried to paint him as the leader of the soft coup trashing the millions of votes that trump got. And he say its will be hard to oust me because were doing such a great job. I can tell you that the reporter there is in florida have been
told to stick around until 7 30. Another indication that we could hear from the president about this later. The president at this point probably wants to speak. Ken, i want to remind people of muellers track record here. These are the guilty pleas, the indictment, stone, 25 different members of russia negligence and russian officials. This was not a if this was a witch hunt, it is the most successful in American History. He caught a lot of witches, chuck if is a remarkable record. More than we could have anticipated. Not only the vast expanse of charges against russians and laying out, but indictments of
people very close to the president. The campaign chairman, his personal lawyer fwhb that respect it has been a very significant investigation that will go down in history. At the same time many people will be surprised that no one no member of the Trump Campaign has been charged with conspireing with that russian interference record. We have to wait to see what the report says about all of these suspicious contacts about the russia russians, if he was warned, what he did with the warnings, how he behaved and how Robert Mueller evaluates that. That is a missing piece here. The table has changed a bit. Nicole is still here. We have sahill kapur, dan, make sense of this day now. We invoked your name earlier. We were joking about the waiting for the mueller game, and you
get to say today or tomorrow, today is today. Today is the day, we have waiting for today in a long time and were still in the dark and that i think is the sub fans of where we are at this minute. We will continue to wounder what is in that until the att he wil with the report that he has been handed. And as nicole is saying, there are things we dont know, what conclusions he may draw on aspects of this investigation. The president has been insistent there was no collusion. And yet the biggest question is still unanswered and thats what we wait for. Lets take a big picture look at this. Think about if we didnt know anything about any of this. And it all came out at the end. Everything that we witnessed in
public. Calling for the hacking of Hillary Clinton, going to the meetings with sergei kislyak. Here is what will happen, even if there is a fight and we dont get access to this report for a long time, the committee has 50 of the individuals that agree to provide information. That is what our Congress Wants. Democrats are gearing up. They want to make sure the full report and the underlying materials are released publicly or to members of congress. I asked about what is next, they said transparency, transparency, theyre worried the president or
staff may try to meddle and choose who sees what. Lets go to Julie Ainsley now, go ahead and read it thats right, the highlights here, we have a lot of the whole thing, okay, this goes to the ranking members of the Judiciary Wh Committee from house and senate, i write to notify you that pursuant to the statute that robert s. Mueller iii has concluded his investigation in the 2016 election investigation and related matters. The Special Councils regulation says i provide a description of instances, if anyway, in which the Attorney General concluded that a propose thd actiesed actSpecial Council that it was so inappropriate or unwarranted that it should not be pursued. There was no such instances during the Special Councils investigation. Let me pause you there. That reminds people, that means he did not ask for an indictment or subpoena and get it denied by any Attorney General. Thats right, that there was no overt on instruction or interference. Acting is important because Rod Rosenstein most of this. This is a key paragraph here. Ly go to this, the Special Council submitted to me today a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions, he has reached required by the statute, im
reviewing the report, im reviewing the report and anticipate that i may be in a position to advise you of the Special Councils principal conclusions, principal conclusions, as soon as this weekend. Very soon, were already in friday afternoon. I have one more expertise pieced do it, separately i intend to consult with the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller to determine what can be released to congress and the public into he will consult with rosenstein and mueller for what they can release to the public. It will be consistent can the special Council Regulations and
the long Standing Practices and policies. You can read there, will they give us information about people they dont prosecute. It is like in the Hillary Clinton case. I will keep you informed as to the status of my review. And he concludes and says i have so determinedly disclose this later to the public after delivering it to you. Very nice, julie. This weekend do you think he will tell us the big conclusions this weekend . So they have been preparing for this. In Hindsight Everything is clearer. So Rod Rosensteins replacement was set up a long time ago. He stayed put to help with this moment, his office has been
overseaing the Mueller Probe, they have interacted for as long as the probe has been under way into there is some institutional its not like barr showed up and he was handed this, Rod Rosenstein is there, they have been dealing with the hill on all of those attacks for many months. Let me bring in Pete Williams here, given the fact that the Attorney General promised something as soon as this weekend, does it also indicate that mueller himself has been working with them with pieces of the report sooner than we thought . Likely briefing them, and remember he knows what they have been up to. But what the Congress Wants to know and the public wants to know is not what they will talk about this weekend. He will tell them who mueller prosecuted. Who mueller prosecuted and declined to prosecute, that we dont know and how much of that will be made public. I dont know how much of it i can tell you and i dont know when can tell you that. Officially we thought there might be a date certain. There is not there is just a commitment this weekend to tell them the very bare bones thing that says all the Special Council because when he prepares his report is say here are the people i prosecuted, here is the people i didnt and why. So the meat of report is not coming this weekend. Whats your sense of the white house getting a heads up and what did they get a heads up
on . We know we can talk about what was talked about and what wasnt. The president can demand anything in the Executive Branch. Well i would thans normally by telling you what practice as been in the past and what precedent is. There really is not one in is the First Special council to stick with the rules after it was written. The First Special council made ev