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January, the government shutdown delayed a lot of this. that's one reason why these schedules are sort of colliding. >> what do we know as of now of what we'll end up seeing with the mueller investigation, democrats delayed the william barr's confirmation because they are worried of what they'll see from robert mueller's report and how much of that william barr will submit to congress. >> it is possible there will be some sort of legal battle after mueller gives that report to general bill barr. the report that bill barr then decides to provide to congress, he says he wants to provide somethin...

Final report. rosenstein would like to stay as long as he can to help mueller with that, but that's largely going to be up to bill barr, if he's confirmed as attorney general. but putting it all together, what you have is the final stages of the mueller work, perhaps ending by late february, and then the work on preparing a report which will take several weeks. undoubtedly, grand jury material in it. classified material. it will have to be redacted, and the new attorney general, if it's barr, is going to have to decide how much of that to share with congress and the public. congress will undou...

Bannon, mr. bannon's state of mind when it comes to this president? obviously they've had a major conflict, a major falling out since he left the white house, particularly i in the last couple of weeks. is that what's motivating his strategy here? do we know anything in terms of having a source who is familiar with his thinking? do we know what he might tell mueller? >> what i've been told is that the question eof the indication of the executive privilege is not something where bannon has been able to make decisions for himself. it's up to the white house whether or not to invoke privilege. so...

So essentially, the standoff that we with saw today, even though it was between bannon himself and members and staffers of the intelligence committee, in reality was between the white house and members of the intelligence committee. perhaps a little overdramatic to say that bannon is a pawn in this situation. but he is not a character whose -- who is acting. he see not making the decisions about what he can and can't tell people. and that's why this executive privilege question which again is something the white house invokes is such an important one. one person i spoke with pointed out to me ...

Existence of any communication between the president that i consider to be confidential. >> so senator, you were saying before we played that, there's a bit of a line here. there are communications and exchange that's someone could have with the president that he is protected by executive privilege. there are questions that should and could be answered. what are the questions? what are the key questions that fall on that side of it? >> the simpler thing on the executive privilege question he is that there is no executive privilege as to any question. it doesn't just lie out there. it has to be...