Investigation. And the fact that barr has been really the only voice speaking out on this has fed that perception. So with mueller now finally adding his voice, that will hurt the president s ability to continue this line of total exoneration, jim. Especially when its not true. Doesnt match the facts. Sarah westwood, thanks very much. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Top of the hour here. I am jim sciutto in new york. Our breaking news, a bombshell in the making. Robert mueller, the Special Counsel, who has not said a word in public since he took over the Russia Investigation two years ago this very month, is set to make a Public Statement, his first Public Statement one hour from now. This comes amid weeks of negotiations with the House Judiciary Committee over whether and how he will answer questions on the hill about the report that he submitted in march and will he take questions, will he take them in public . A lot of open questions there about the testimony. But no question n
There was substantial evidence of criminal intent by the president , in his view. Were going to see bob mueller walk out and were going to be watching for is he alone, is mr. Barr behind him or in the room, what are the first words that bob mueller wants to publicly utter . A man who is reticent, sometimes to a fault his supporters say. He clearly has something to say. Does he in any way elude to or cite what we know to be major disagreements with mr. Barr about what mueller found in his investigation and about evidence about sitting the president. Here we have for the first time publicly in more than two years Robert Mueller. Thank you for being here. Two years ago the Acting Attorney General asked me to sv as Special Counsel. And he created the special
counsels office. The appointed directed the office to investigate russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated
him. the the new york times said th report in question according to people familiar with the matter is a document of more than 100 pages that was compiled by a trump communications aid, who is often described as among of the true believers that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread fraud. so this had is the document he wants to put out. here s his former attorney, and then i want to get your thoughts on that. there s a good chance whatever document he produces ends up as evidence against him. it could end up as the basis for an obstruction count against the author because it s likely to be fiction and solely for the purpose of contaminating the jury pool. what do you think about that? ty kolb is a really good lawyer. i believe it when he says that could become evidence in the
the washington post. devin corcoran was forced to testify last month before federal grand jury is recuse himself from the mar-a-lag documents case and from the new york times, reports for people wit knowledge of the matter. the witnesses are bein questions about whether trum had a classified mob after h left office to at least on former advisor, a journalist o political donor. nbc news has not yet independently confirmed th report, but joining me now i the former u.s. attorney to th western district of virginia and former lead investigator for the house january si investigation committee. welcome back to the, broadcast tim obviously we are not privy to the details of the gran jury hearing but i m curious your sense of how far along yo think the mar-a-lago investigators all right now, and what you think might b happening behind the scenes? i think they re far along these reports that you jus
car did tell her to get out of their city, but other than tha law but as lawrence o donnell wa telling you with more media than there wer actual protesters, certainly - this was the wide view outside the courthouse this morning. the crowd that was there numbered in the hundreds including tons of journalist interests, according to ne york and we see station, citin early police estimates, th report that the pro trump crow outnumbered the anti trump crowd a little bit you can see one trump supporte there waving a flag. it might be hard to spot but there are at least a few maga hats you can see here there are, give or take. it is easier to see th television nukes crews in th foreground that it is to see anybody else also outside the courthouse, people were gathered in suppor of the indictment tonight.