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Democrats on the campaign trail, and generally in the party, really trying to steer this and put the pressure on trump with regard to the election, whether he should be re-elect ed. >> you know mueller so well, given all the research you've do done. we've seen a lot of mueller's indictment how he crafted his report to take care. would he craft a report around exposing classified security information. around the threat of executive privilege being invoked. so that it could largely be made public? >> that's been part of this entire process, working through with the intelligence agencies, their e...

>> i'm jon scott and this is the "fox report" we're near the bottom of the hour, if you're just joining us, the attorney general now reviewing special counsel robert mueller on just concluded probe of russian election medaling and threatening subpoenas if report is not fully released let's bring in chris former senior investigatorrive counsel for house oversight committee and former new york state assistant attorney general. the question is how much can democrats compel from the special counsel, the attorney general has the right to obliterate, you know, some parts of this report. does he not?...

>> the democrats on the hill start overreaching and launching new investigations, if it seems like there's not a ton of there there. >> do you think impeachment is off the table? >> nancy pelosi took it so clearly took it off the table. she wanted to start this movement -- robert mueller didn't recommend indictments, or there isn't clear evidence, you know, new beyond connecting dots, new evidence that supports articles of impeachment. it's going to be very hard, pelosi has drawn a red line, she's saying, we need republicans to support impeachment before we really do anything. so -- >> and rep...

>> transparency, there's a duty and obligation to make sure and take whatever steps are necessary to make sure there is a full accounting of national security concerns here that are important. but also to -- scott makes an important point. part of the reason we need to know what's in this report is so we can make sure it doesn't happen again and certainly what we know thus far is that -- there's also still remember, there's a lot we don't know, if i were advising someone, i would remind them that, how you talk about this report, remember this report is just one piece of this larger -- we know ...

And when anyone thinks report about the report that's what they're thinking of. >> and i think your a hitting on something not talked about enough. the special counsel statute is completely different from the independent counsel and there's a distinctive difference. they let the independent counsel statute lapse for a reason, the starr report was salacious and had information there that didn't need to be and damaged people's lives. the special counsel statute is purposely, it's limiting. if you just look at what they require mueller to give, they call it a confidential report. so if you just t...