Further charges right here in the United States. Now, tonight, on the beat we have special coverage of all and a former roger stone associate. But, first, i bring you the facts tonight. Tonights indictment not aimed at say a lawyer who did work for Trump Associates like some past indictments. Not aimed at unknown political operatives like george papadopoul papadopoulos. No, tonight, the who is quite clear and disturbing. Mueller aiming squarely at top Russian Military intelligence officers. The white is a conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election. The charges are conspiracy to commit an offense against the u. S. , Identity Theft and Money Laundering among others. That means that right now we know more about bob muellers strategy for pressing this case Going Forward than ever before. The political world talks a lot about collusion, as weve reported, though, the key word tonight is conspiracy. Mueller stating the object of this conspiracy was to hack u. S. Campaign officials, steal do
Second, the Mueller Report does not exonerate trump of obstruction of justice. That remains an open issue. We know that tonight because of what barr himself writes. That the report left unresolved concerning whether the president s action and intent could be viewed as obstruction. Barr notes that mueller also does not exonerate him. So thats pretty important. But barrs letter today tries to go farther and declare donald trump who appointed barr did not obstruct justice. Quote, Rod Rosenstein and i have concluded the evidence is not sufficient to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice defense offense. Thats very important in what you see there. And we have a special tonight going to tell you everything you need to know about what is real and what we know from a probe thats now concluded and what may be less than real. Because you will notice in any past probe of any president here say clinton or nixon, these kind of findings about obstruction were always referred to