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Are. >> reporter: and just moments ago, vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo boarded their plane to turkey. they are headed there on a mission to stop the violence in northern syria, but some of their job today was made a lot more difficult by president trump's words, which echoed turkey's president erdogan and we're also learning about a letter that president trump sent to erdogan urging him to stop the violence. he says this in the letter, don't be a tough guy, don't be a fool. he says history will look upon you favorably if you get this done in the right and humane w...

Investigation, did you think that this was way a single attempt by the russians to get involved in our election or did you find evidence to suggest 24r5e8 try to do this again. >> it wasn't a single attempt. they're doing it as we sit here and they expect to do it during the next campaign. give us the intelligence reasoning why again as i've mentioned tonight, bob mueller can sit there and actually make a foward-looking statement, an estimate or prognostication here in the intelligence ekz which i know you know he would never do during the obstruction hearing, he would never say someone lied t...

Being brought up or indicted. well, that's a possibility too. maybe it's a counterintelligence component where we don't want to talk about that, but that could be turned over to the southern district of new york for even worse punishment like money laundering or something along those lines. we just don't know. >> now, ken, the other thing that a lot of people are concerned about is that mueller never questioned the president. there was written questions given, they were answered in written answers. there were rumors that may ask for more. how do you read into the fact that there was not more r...

Pages plus -- and it gave conclusive comey-like narratives so mueller has to figure out who is he? is he jaworski or starr? he's around different statute but that will be informative of us. so that's 55 pages or 450 pages michael, staying with you, depending on what bill barr wants to do hypothetical he get this is monday and there's a real thirst by we the people of the united states to understand what this has been about, how quickly do you think he can turn something around for the public? >> it depends on how much classified information is in that report. if he writes a report that's -- co...

The attorney general as i understand the rules would report to congress about the conclusion of the investigation and there may be discretion about what the attorney general can put in that report. >> so you would make a report to congress? >> yes. >> based on the report you've received? >> yes. >> here is the law regarding special counsel investigations. barr only has to tell congress the investigation is complete and whether mueller was blocked on acting in efforts in his investigation and as you just heard mr. barr said he's more inclined to issue his own report on the mueller probe not the...