Well. Jon meacham, always such a pleasure to have him as part of our broadcast, especially on a consequential friday night. That is our broadcast indeed for this friday and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Have a good weekend. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. A couple of hours ago, maybe even less than that, i was standing knee deep in a trout stream in tennessee. But now its mueller time and so im in a studio in the great state of tennessee. The trout are basically just as safe as they were when i was flailing away at them ineffectually this afternoon. But now it is listen, its this is history. This is a reason to stop fishing and go to work. Our job tonight as a country sort of or at least what
everybody in the country is going to be doing tonight is trying to figure out what it means that the report of special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally been submitted. Weve heard it said so many times that it was imminent, that it was done, maybe it
filings, stuff is still happening. even if the mueller team doesn t indict and prosecute anyone else, i m still quite certain, like i said earlier that others should not be celebrating just yet. chuck, let me ask you about something i mean, we know what was in the order creating this special counsel. or appointing the special counsel. we know some of what was in a subsequent scoping memo that laid out what he was authorized to investigate. but big portions of that were redacted. what would have to transpire or what would have to be cleared up for us to ever be able to see behind those redactions. now that the special counsel s investigation is done. would you expect that we ll get to know the full terms of exactly what he was scoped to look into. i imagine we will one day.
we know that the president, for instance, was identified in public court filings as having directed illegal campaign finance payments. we know other people were involved in that. we know that cohen and flynn and gates and others continue to cooperate. we see large amounts of redacted portions in recent public court filings, stuff is still happening. even if the mueller team doesn t indict and prosecute anyone else, i m still quite certain, like i said earlier that others should not be celebrating just yet. chuck, let me ask you about something that was raised earlier this hour. josh gerstein raised a good point, when we re talking about what mueller was asked to look into, we know what was in the order creating this special counsel. or appointing the special counsel. we know some of what was in a subsequent sort of scoping memo that laid out what he was authorized to investigate.
rather narrow. i disagree with the congressman in one respect. he was asked to look he mueller was asked to look at russian interference in the 2016 election. nobody asked mueller to rummage through trump s attic. and so we know the southern district of new york investigation continues. we know that the president, for instance, was identified in public court filings as having directed illegal campaign finance payments. we know other people were involved in that. we know that cohen and flynn and gates and others continue to cooperate. we see large amounts of redacted portions in recent public court filings. stuff is still happening. even if the mueller team doesn t indict and prosecute anyone else, i m still quite certain, like i said earlier, that others should not be celebrating just yet. chuck, let me ask you about something that was raised earlier this hour. josh gerstein raised a really good point, which is when we re talking about what exactly
investigation continues. we know that the president, for instance, was identified in public court filings as having directed illegal campaign finance payments. we know other people were involved in that. we know that cohen and flynn and gates and others continue to cooperate. we see large amounts of redacted portions in recent public court filings. stuff is still happening. even if the mueller team doesn t indict and prosecute anyone else, i m still quite certain, like i said earlier, that others should not be celebrating just yet. chuck, let me ask you about something that was raised earlier this hour. josh gerstein raised a really good point, which is when we re talking about what exactly mueller was asked to look into, i mean, we know what was in the order creating this special counsel. we know or appointing the special counsel. we know some of what was in a