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We've been asking the justice department what exactly he's been up to now that the investigation has been closed, for nearly two months, they haven't commented. but he will now have his chance to speak about whatever he wants. he's not taking any questions from reporters, but again, i am told his statement will be substantial. just to give you a little bit of behind-the-scenes color on how this all came together, my colleague jeremy diamond is told that the white house was given a heads up yesterday that mueller would be making a statement. and i'm told by a source familiar that the attorney g...

Those were about, but you can imagine that they might be trying to coordinate what their response might be. and as you pointed out, jake, the president has been saying this report was a complete exoneration of him, but at the same time, he has not let up on his attacks on the investigation itself. in fact, he has cheered this effort to investigate the investigators. so this is clearly a white house who is still on the defense about the content of the mueller report, even as they claim that it exonerates president trump. and the white house says they're going to wait until mueller completes his...

Have indicted the president of the united states if there were not an office of legal counsel opinion that said you cannot do that? and how did that play into your thinking and into your team's thinking. and i hope he elaborates a little bit on that. it's clear that he is a reluctant witness. he doesn't want to go before congress. it seems like he doesn't even want to go before congress behind closed doors. we will find that out. and so, i'm hoping that in this statement which laura jarrett says is substantial, that it is substantial and it does answer a question like that. >> absolutely. and ...

Because that's what the american people really don't understand, even though we've had the report for a month or so now. >> the trouble, of course, is since he is not taking questions, he can't be cross-examined. he could make a statement, characterize it any way he wants to, but you would want a reporter or a lawmaker in the room to say, wait a second, in your march 27th letter to the attorney general, you said his summary did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of your findings. why is that? did you have disagreements? how did you settle those disagreements behind closed doo...

Capitol hill. at least those who are in a position to before kind of, you know, dealing with this kind of thing. you know, we don't know yet and we're still doing reporting about whether or not the same goes for democrats who are in charge of the house of representatives, but when it comes to republicans, my understanding in talking to a key republican source is that did not happen, as it seems to have had with the trump white house. >> now, would hill need to be notified based on a special counsel law in advance if the special counsel was completing his work? >> that's a good question. the an...