what we ll be talking about whenever this does land. sandra: juan, newt gingrich used strong words on fox news.com why the case it should be made public. make the mueller report public, here is why. treating the elected president of the united states as though they were a murderous organized crime family and why it should be made public. american people should be able to see how long they ve been willing to levy the power of the government to torment people in a political investigation writes newt gingrich. i think that the bottom line is i agree with newt gingrich you have to make this document public. where i disagree. i don t think anybody has been tormented or unfairly subjected to the power of government. clearly by the way you have republicans here not only jim comey, not only jeff sessions, but guess who, robert mueller,
correspondent. juan williams, fox news political analyst and ab stoddard, associate and editor at real clear politics. let s start with the mueller report. the first thing the president said when he walked out and talked to cameras for a bit before heading to mar-a-lago, he doesn t know when we ll see it. when it is coming out. nobody knows when we ll see it or what will be in it. people have been sharp critics of the president seem to lay the ground work for there not being a lot in the report. james comey writing an op-ed saying i don t know whether there is evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice and i don t care. i don t care. he is the guy who started this whole thing. he said under oath of congress he had a friend leak. we ve been investigating whether or not there is collusion with russia for two years and james comey is saying he doesn t know if it is there. nobody knows what s in the
whether the report exonerates the president, imply indicates the president or somewhere in between the american people deserve transparency. jon: the f.b.i. director who the president fired raised eyebrows with this editorial in the new york times. the headline is what i want from the mueller report. i m rooting for a demonstration to the world that the united states justice system works. he goes on to write i hope mr. trump is not impeached and removed from office before the end of his term. i don t mean congress shouldn t move ahead with the process of impeachment, if congress thinks the provable facts are there. i hope it doesn t because if mr. trump were removed from office by congress a significant portion of this country would see it as a coup and drive those people farther from the common center of life deeply fracturing our country. the majority of house democrats belief talk of
at the justice department yesterday. attorney general william barr, rod rosenstein, former acting attorney general whitaker for a presentation to jeff sessions. the report was not delivered yesterday. those close to the process suggested it was unlikely given the timing of this public event. next steps as you mentioned are guided by federal regulations known at 28cfr600 that state the mueller report is confidential to the attorney general and must outline prosecutions and where no criminal action is taken. listen to this exchange from barr s confirmation hearings where he commits to transparency but appears to stop short of releasing the full mueller findings. will you provide mueller s report to congress, not your rewrite or a summary? the regs do say that mueller is supposed to do a summary
jon: breaking news just in to america s newsroom. the trump administration will slap new sanctions to target iran s nuclear program. 31 nuclear scientists and others will be hit with these new sanctions. secretary of state mike pompeo saying we will be relentless in denying iran the ability to engage in weapons of mass destruction proliferation. president trump: the way they ve treated me, and we have found many crimes on the other side. these are stone cold crimes what they ve done between the deletion of 33,000 emails and many, many other things. if somebody they all say flynn. i don t know anything about what he said. the f.b.i. said he didn t lie. mueller said he did lie. so what s that all about?