Good evening once again from our nbc headquarters, day 799 of the trumps administration. It may be proof that our attorney general has a working television and seen some of the coverage of the last words he spoke to an anxious american public. His fourpage letter orrin sunday which was after all all we had to go on. Today after sixday of nonstop coverage. The anger among democrats who are not allowed the see the report. The president declared himself exonerated. The attorney general corrects the record a little bit given the reaction of the last letter, he was not an exhaust recounting of the special investigation. Barr plans to release the Mueller Report by mid april if not sooner and he does not plan to give trump an advance copy for review. He says it is nearly 400 pages long and hes available to testify in congress about it in early may. The president was asked about it in florida today. I have great confidence in the attorney general, and thats what he likes to do i have nothing to hide. The response is a bit subdue than the message he sent out later. No matter what the radical left democrats get, no matter what they give them, it will never be enough. Just watch, they will harass and complain and resist, maybe we should take our victory and say no. We got a country to run. More on that later. The most notable part of barrs new letter of muellers findings involved what well not see. He writes that hes working with the special counsel. Robert mueller after his job is done is still redacting or admitting the following. Material compromising and intelligence sources and medals. Materials affecting ongoing investigations including those referred by mueller and other doj offices. Materials infringing on privacy and reputation of peripheral third parties. That could mean a whole lot of people. About that criminal procedure rule 6e. Here is how fox newss legal analyst explains its relevance to the content of muellers report. He says if there is information in there negative to a person who was not charged, that information can not be released. Thats what the democrats want. This is why i think adam schiff is right. There are materials out there points toward guilts but not enough of them to reach a level of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Rudy giuliani says he still wants the full report to come out adding this note. If we have a few nasty facts in there, i am ready to slam it down their throat. Barrs letter was sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee house and senate. The man running the house committee. Jerry nadler of new york responded in a statement that read in part, congress requires the full and complete Mueller Report without redactions as well as access to the under lining evidence by april 2nd, it is critical for attorney barr to come to congress to explain the rational behind his letter. House democrats are gearing up to accuse barr of the cover up if the findings he releases are not complete. One house staff member told the post, if he does not include the full summary or whatever he gives to congress, that amount to a cover up. We do not want anything in the words of the attorney generals. We want to see Robert Muellers words. Many hope muellers report will answer why trump was able to avoid an interview, a sitdown interview with the special counsel. He was allowed to submit written answers instead. Here is how his formal white house lawyer ty cobb responded when asked by Kristen Welker today. Why didnt the president ever sit for an interview with the special counsel. Other president s proceeded of written questions. None of them provided the degree of cooperation that this white house did. It was a great compromise to proceed by written questions. It prevented a 915 month court battle that would not have generated much information. There were concerns at some point that based on the negotiations that they had to get the scope to a reasonable point in order to be confidence so the president can answer the question factually. Our contributor, who happens to be former fbi assistant director for Counter Intelligence told Nicole Wallace this afternoon where he believes we may learn the real answer to that question. I think the answer is in the appendixes and here is why. From what i know how mueller works on these sensitive issues is hell remoralize it for the record. It is not likely it is in the body of the report. Lets with that bring in our leadoff panels on a friday night. Joyce vance, Brian Bennett for Time Magazine and jeremy bash, former chief counsel of the house intel committee. Jeremy, what was the headline of that letter today . Well, i think first of all, with respect to the materials thatll be withheld because it can compromise intelligence and sources and methods. The committee cant have access to that because anything in the possession of the Intelligence Community can go to the hill. Congress will see that, i dont know how much of that will be made public. The other headline brian was a notion that the attorney general is going to make a decision about protecting quote, peripheral third party. That can be anybody, don jr. Or jared or ivanka or other campaign staffs and other people in the trumps inner circle. It will be more prudent Public Interest will be better served if bill barr was not doing the redaction. He was hand picked by President Trump. Joyce vance, i know the phrase in our language that it is mueller memoralizing. Imagine how many attachments and appendixes this case has. A big part of the news today was not very sexy but it was finding out how many pages were involved in muellers report, learning it was almost 400 pages and that did not completes the exhibit that they were in addition to that. When the fbi does these investigations, they write down a report of the interview for every witness they talk to it is called an fbi 302. It is a complete restoration of the conversation. That could be thousands upon thousands of pages of additional evidence. We dont know if thatll be transferred to congress as part of the Mueller Report, it will be critical for congress to have access to all of that raw data to aid their investigation to permit them to engage them to oversight. Brian bennett, is this not risky by House Democrats to put their foot down and insist on april second. Does a. G. Have the ability to call them together and look you dont want me to do this. There are names in here and it is not ready. Let me go through the process and well talk about it then . Well, the attorney general, william barr, has shown himself to be this big umbrella over donald trump. Hes plan to take his time and looking at the report and make redactions. Hes going to be under tremendous measure to lead us into the report as much as possible in the hands of congress. Well have to see how that plays out. Jerry nadler said i want to see the report on tuesday and he should come and testify immediately about this. Barr is saying i need to do responsible job to address all these concerns and the report is handled in an appropriate way. Another thing that hell be redacting or looking at redacting is information that deals with cases that are ongoing. He does handle over the report who had a lot of redactions, it could be assumptions of a lot of cases overlap with the muellers case. Joyce, as we can really envision when well get our handson what ever it is left on the 400 pages. Do you anticipate the president and his lawyers again Rudy Giuliani as tonight we say let it out and lets release the report. Do you think it will be brave as the day approaches . I think it is unlikely that theyll continue to put up the brave front. The president never hesitated to shift courses midstream when he thinks it to his advantage. As his date goes larger, the idea, don mcgahn interview that you reference or bob muellers conversation of hope hicks that all of that material or most of it is going to go on the hill or maybe have public release. Thats going to increasingly weigh on the president. Well see if hell perhaps try to exert executive privilege down the road. Jeremy, no one stands up and interrupts and factchecks, when he said he did it last night and completely exonerated, there was no one there to object. Does this letter today change anything about the parameters surrounding Donald Trumps contention . Yeah, i think this is the president s essential problem here. He had his best headlines and the entire episode already passed from last sunday. It is only going to go down here from here as we and the public learn more of the facts of whats in the report. The report was not a binary question who shot j. R. , was it person x or person y . This is a report about a body of information and evidence, mueller will show a lot of trouble and conduct and suspicious conduct and a lot of conducts that we may think it is for giving us the j. R. Reference. Do the days get worse from here on out and for the president as this gets more real, maybe it is a much more flimsy thing that he says hes been totally exonerated. Overtime more and more details are going to come out about whats in the report. That will means more and more focus and attention and narrative about what connections between russia and the Trump Campaign. A lot of that is in the Public Domain but the next several weeks causes a moment for it to be judged backup and rehash. It is not good for the president. There is a demand for information that mueller found out to go under the Public Domain, why . We have an election coming up in 2020. Voters need to know what their sitting president did during his campaign and fill in the details and the gaps between the information that has already come out during the mueller indictment. Can i close with you joyce, is Robert Mueller going to let bad things happen to his work product . Is there private of authorship . He does have a seat at the table during the editing and redaction process. Hes likely to be called before congress as well. Mueller has a very simple job here. It is a prosecutors job. It is not a political job. Hes not a historian or a savior. His job is to make the investigation. The Decision Maker here, he needs the think of his legacy and the American People. Legacy and about the American People is william barr who was hired after submitting this 19page memo to the president that really preanswered questions the president wanted answered about obstruction of justice in a way the president wanted to see the answers. Now we are about to find out, is barr the president s lawyer or the peoples lawyer . He is supposed to be the peoples lawyer. We seem to say this every friday. What a year its been this week. Much obliged to the three of you for starting us off. Our next guest had a front row seat to one of the big confrontations on capitol hill this week. President trump warns he is not playing games and threatens to close down the southern border. We will have two of the best journalists tell us what they are hearing about this political strategy post mueller as the 11th hour is just Getting Started on a spring time friday night. Less, less, but im relentless too. Mbc doesnt take a day off, and neither will i. And i treat my mbc with everyday verzenio the only one of its kind that can be taken every day. In fact, verzenio is a cdk4 6 inhibitor for postmenopausal women with hr , her2 Metastatic Breast Cancer, approved, with hormonal therapy, as an everyday treatment for a relentless disease. 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They straight up called for his resignation. He said he would not resign and lays out a deeply troubling pattern of conduct from trump and Trump Associates related to russia in the 2016 campaign. Just tonight schiff tshirts are for sale on the official Trump Campaign website, depicting him with clown features. He was sitting in the hearing room and he was there to testify about Vladimir Putins influence in our world and our elections. You can use your five minutes to speak. You attacked me in your opening statement. I have not had an opportunity to speak. No one over here thinks that. You cannot speak for us. You are not recognized. Ambassador, you are recognized. That man is with us now. Former u. S. Ambassador to russia. Im happy you can smile now. Tell us why you were there, ambassador and what it was like to be there. That was quite an introduction after all of that arguing, he pivoted to me to end it all. I was there to testify about putins use of money and the olegarches and intelligence. That was our assignment. I got a detailed letter from the intelligence staff asking us to address the certain questions. Thats what i was there to do. The republican devin nunez who had before the democrats won the house and the chairman of the committee, opened up an interrogation of you. He asked you questions about carter page and fusion gps and the steele dossier. What was he getting at . You are working for the other team . I guess so, brian. I testified many, many times over decades in the u. S. Congress. I never have been interrogated like that. The insinuation was that i committed some wrongdoing. Of course i had nothing to do with all those people. Although i did say when he asked me if i had met ambassador kislyak, i said yes because i dealt with him on diplomatic issues and he was my counterpart. That was odd. I surely a member of congress would have known that. Its easy to google and find images, but he wanted to link me to the conspiracy that they are trying to connect dots to of somehow corruption around the steele dossier and the fisa process that led to carter page. I dont know. It was a very bizarre experience to be interrogated that way. Because of your unique portfolio and lifes work, you bring a unique view as we discussed with you in realtime for the better part of two years. What do you, mike mcfaul, want to see what aspects of the Mueller Report are you waiting to thumb to and read . So i want to remind your viewers, brian, that if you go back and look at two indictments of the russians, both the gru and the Russian Military intelligence and the research agency, the group that was putting propaganda and falsely appearing as americans on websites and even in person, we learned an incredible amount about the russian operation to influence voters in 2016. Those werent the only two things that russians did. I suspect mr. Mueller now is the most expert person in the world on what russia tried to do in terms of influencing voters in 2016. I hope he documented it all in that report so that we can diagnose what happened with respect to the russians so that we can then move to the printive phase and make sure it never happens again, especially in 2020. Do you look at him as the guy who maybe has the standing and moral authority to calm the waters and his word can be the closest thing we have in this debate to gospel . I hope so. I hope the report will be as detailed as i would expect it to be. I used to work with bob mueller in the government. Hes a very thorough guy. The main thing i hope and i said this at the hearing yesterday. I am so tired of americans polarizing what should be National Security issues. I used to work for the National Security council. Not the democratic security council. There is no such thing as democratic or republican security. Other policy issues there are. There are winners and losers and you can support that, but when we are attacking, they are not attacking one or the other. Our nation is attacked. I hope the report will get us back together to deal with the prescriptions. We have done next to nothing to prevent a similar attack from happening in 2020 and remember its not just the russians. Everyone is watching putins playbook. We have to come together as americans to protect our national interest. Ambassador, thank you as always. Sure. Coming up tonight, how the Trump Campaign plans to use the Mueller Report to win a second term. Term all of the current and former offi