Well. Jon meacham, always such a pleasure to have him as part of our broadcast, especially on a consequential friday night. That is our broadcast indeed for this friday and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Have a good weekend. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. A couple of hours ago, maybe even less than that, i was standing knee deep in a trout stream in tennessee. But now its mueller time and so im in a studio in the great state of tennessee. The trout are basically just as safe as they were when i was flailing away at them ineffectually this afternoon. But now it is listen, its this is history. This is a reason to stop fishing and go to work. Our job tonight as a country sort of or at least what
everybody in the country is going to be doing tonight is trying to figure out what it means that the report of special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally been submitted. Weve heard it said so many times that it was imminent, that it was done, maybe it
mes messenger of some kind, she brought in fact, two letters to the committee in two separate manila envelopes. that was just before 5:00 eastern time. our assumption is that there were two envelopes in two separate letters because that was one letter for the democratic chairman of the committee and one for the republican ranking member of the committee. the chairman of the judiciary committee jerry nadler was at his new york office. he was not in d.c. the committee staff quickly made a digital copy and got the letter to him that way. we know those details thanks to a judiciary committee spokesperson laying out that process. we know that is how the house judiciary committee was notified this evening that special counsel robert mueller had completed his investigation. we are assuming that a similar process or at least a process with the same effect also unfolded at the senate judiciary committee around the same time
at 4:30 p.m. eastern time the staff of the house judiciary committee got a call somebody would be bringing a letter from the attorney general. i m sure they all immediately guessed what that letter was. a justice department staffer or messenger of some kind, all we know she was wearing a north face jacket, she brought, in fact, two letters to the committee in two separate manila envelopes because that was one letter for the democratic chairman and republican ranking member of the committee. the chairman of the judiciary committee was at his new york office, not in d.c. so the committee staff quickly made a digital copy and got the letter to him that way. we know those details thanks to a judiciary committee
fact, two letters to the committee in two separate manila env envelopes because that was one letter for the democratic chairman and republican ranking member of the committee. the chairman of the judiciary committee was at his new york office, not in d.c. so the committee staff quickly made a digital copy and got the letter to him that way. we know those details thanks to a judiciary committee spokesperson laying out that process. we know that is how the house judiciary committee was notified special counsel robert mueller completed his investigation. we are assuming that a similar process or at least a process with the same effect also unfolded at the senate judiciary committee around the same time today but we don t have the same readout about that process. so we know the logistics of how we got the notification that it
separate envelopes because that was one letter for the democratic chairman of the committee and one for the republican ranking member of the committee. the chairman of the judiciary committee, democratic congressman jerry nadler, was at his new york office. he was not in d.c. so the committee staff quickly made a digital copy and got the letter to him that way. we know those details thanks to a judiciary committee spokesperson laying out that process. we know that is how the house judiciary committee was notified this evening that special counsel robert mueller had completed his investigation. we are assuming that a similar process or at least a process with the same effect also unfolded at the senate judiciary committee around the same time today but we don t have the same kind of readout about that process. so we know the logistics of how we got the notification that it ended and obviously, right now we have mostly just a ton of questions as to what mueller s report says, how complet