do or something that mueller was otherwise going to pursue, barr was going to block him. at least as far as this letter goes from the attorney general bill barr tonight, barr says he never exercised that power. he s notifying congress formally. there s never anything the special counsel sought to do that bill barr stopped mueller from doing. and that s fascinating. of course everybody would like to hear that from robert mueller as well as from bill barr but at this point it s only bill barr who is speaking on mueller s behalf. robert mueller is still at this point publicly silent as he has been from the very beginning. although we ll have more on that in a moment. here s more from the letter, though, quote the special counsel has submitted to me today a quote, confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions he has reached as required by the regulations. quote, i am reviewing the report and anticipate that i may be in a position to advise you of the special couns
volunteered a big long sharply worded memorandum to the trump white house that criticized the special counsel, because of the circumstances under which bill barr was brought on. his predecessor jeff sessions was fired as attorney general. the president said openly because sessions recused himself from overseeing the mueller investigation. well, here comes bill barr who has volunteered to the white house when he was in private practice, hey, i ve got tons of criticism of the special counsel, i think he s doing tons of things wrong. then bill barr gets nominated and confirmed as a.g. there s been worries and speculation that the reason bill barr got that job, the reason he was seen as a suitable replacement for jeff sessions and therefore what might be expected of bill barr in that job is that once he got confirmed as attorney general, he d stick his foot out and trip the special counsel, right? he would use his power as attorney general to block mueller from something that mueller was o
counsel s office will not make anymore indictments, that i think is being greeted in some quarters as a sign that there will be no more indictments period, that anybody who hasn t been who hasn t been charged yet in any relation to this investigation or anything that has derived from it is home free. we ve seen actually at least one person tonight who had been offered a plea agreement at some point who jerome cor see who seemed to potentially have an indictment on the way, this shows that he s been vindicated. it s won. it s all over. i wonder if you think that the fact that more indictments aren t coming from the special counsel s office necessarily means that other indictments might not be coming from other u.s. attorneys. i think it is way too early for mr. corsi and others to be dancing in the end zone, rachel. here s why, it seems to me that a lot of these cases whether it s corsi or carter page,
made public, and if we need to do so by redacting information, then we do that. if we can declassify information in the interests of transparency and not sacrifice sources and methods, then we can do that too. what are you going to do if barr says no? if william barr says this report has been submitted to me, i have the one copy of this report, i believe that the principal conclusions should be briefed and as far as i m concerned the principal conclusions are these are the people that have been indicted and other than that there s no justice department responsibility to pass anything else on, i don t care about public clamor, i don t care about statements about what i must do from anybody. i m just going o to sit on all the rest of it. presumably subpoenaing the report, subpoenaing mr. mueller himself, subpoenaing other people involved in the investigation, ultimately those subpoenas get enforced through the justice department, don t they? i mean, if william barr decided that he was
otherwise going to pursue, barr was going to block him. at least as far as this letter goes from the attorney general bill barr tonight, barr says he never exercised that power. he s notifying congress formally. there s never anything the special counsel sought to do that bill barr stopped mueller from doing. and that s fascinating. of course everybody would like to hear that from robert mueller as well as from bill barr but at this point it s only bill barr who is speaking on mueller s behalf. robert mueller is still at this point publicly silent as he has been from the very beginning. although we ll have more on that in a moment. here s more from the letter, though, quote the special counsel has submitted to me today a quote, confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions he has reached as required by the regulations. quote, i am reviewing the report and anticipate that i may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel s principal