the arguments for why the report comes out soon is basically as follows. right now there are multiple different nodes of investigation. it s not just mueller. it s the southern district, u.s. attorney s office. it s congress, various committees, also state attorneys general. so mueller doesn t necessarily need to carry all of these prosecutions and investigations through the way he did 19 months ago. that s the argument for why he could file a final report and step aside and turn it over. on the other hand, we keep learning that there are new crimes that are allegedly committed by trump and the coterie of people around him. and even when the crimes are discovered like with manafort and they plead guilty to them they then lie during the plea. so, you know, that s stretched things out and also expanded the scope of the investigation as well. if the policy rules if the rules the rules that you wrote that bob mueller is operating under, if they don t mandate a public report, help
don t go anywhere. there is a lot of news breaking tonight. first and foremost, as we ve been discussing the justice department now openly discussing when bob mueller s investigation will end. i could tell tu will go beyond next week according to bill barr. and the nation is very interested in how mueller will ultimately end the probe and what any report he writes will say. the rules of course do not require an automatic public report. the attorney general will decide what to release from whatever mueller found. and bill barr did talk of transparency at his confirmation. tonight if mueller hands the doj a report we want to probe what would it look like? how has he written reports before? or tackled times where maybe people did bad things that might not be chargeable crimes. our special report tonight right now looks at the clues of how mueller may end this. a road map that comes from, yes, a report that bob mueller broet wrote in 2015 in a different role as a private,
share the formally finding with the nfl before completing the report because of his pledge of independence. how do you apply that to what bill barr may or may not know. i m not sure bill barr knows everything yet. i think the question of of who the client is. in this case the client is the department of justice. and the client is bill barr as attorney general. and the question will be, how much wider does bob mueller feel his responsibility is? in the nfl case he stuck primarily to his legal bereave here and focused with laser like attention on the main question. here on the question of collusion, believe me if i were donald trump and i actually had the patience to read this thing, i i would be concerned if if there is the slightest scintilla of evidence that there was collusion either in the president s either by the president himself or his
case, he was asked to do two things. he was asked to see what the league office knew about the video, if they had seen the video or not. but he was also asked if he what else the league knew about. and it was using that second question that he answered that he got into wider issues about the league. who his client is is an interesting question. there it was the nfl. and it was basically the owners of the nfl trying to decide whether to fire roger goodell or not. and mueller, if there was a shred of evidence that goodell had known about the video or the headquarters office would have known about the vifd goodell would have been gone. that s fascinating on a night when bill barr is signaling mueller won t finish next week. take that for what you will. during this we see mueller in meetings but would fwhot, quote,
did you at all think about the new york strip? that would have been a bad idea. you are right the rib eye the most favorable. back machined with more mtb deet. the beat with ari melber. where is the beef? the beef is on sunday. there you go. see you then chuck. tonight we report live on a mueller friday. and this is a big one. bob mueller is filing his final move against paul manafort tonight, making the case for a long jail sentence as news breaks that separately new york the prosecutors may diet manafort within weeks on charges that donald trump cannot pardon. all that plus the late news right now about the mueller report itself. let me show you the scene here. it seems quiet at the justice department. but the doj is doing something that is not quiet at all, something it almost never does. tonight the justice department is now talking about when bob mueller will finish his russia probe. in fact, today s late afternoon