attorney general s obligation is to give it to the hill. they ll receive it first. at some point i m sure it will be made public, but precisely what the logistical arrangements are for that, how long we ll have to wait i m not sure i can say. so 30 to 45 minutes from now. we are hearing more and more from democrats on the sunday shows today, pete, and pretty much in the interviews they ve done also on the campaign trail frand republic and from republicans they want to see the entire report. how much pressure is the justice department feeling right now to release this with as few redactions as possible? well, i would strike the right now out of that and go back to bill barr s confirmation hearing in january. he s well aware of the intent interest in this. he doesn t need representatives on the sunday shows de s tellin justice department there s a lot of interest in seeing this.
people. that transparency key. the speaker is saying i completely agree, do not think you can bury this report. do not think you can bury the evidence in secret by briefing eight people in congress and say we discharge our responsibility. that s not going to cut it. we want the full report. we deserve it, and we re going to keep the pressure on to say to him, we want transparency. joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent mike viqueira, former prosecutor doug burns and chief washington correspondent and from the justice department pete williams. pete, we ve waited with bated breath all day. what is the latest we no? reporter: no change here. we re still waiting with bated breath. is does seem fairly clear something will be delivered to congress today and sometime after that it will be made public, but i can t tell what you time that s going to happen,
i was that s t. i want to make sure viewers see it, not just you, doug. here s what he said. i m going to read it. i do not believe it exists here at all as we learned from the nixon tapes case executive privilege cannot be used to hide wrongdoing. in that case the supreme court 9-0 ordered that all the claims of executive privilege will be overridden. the president may try to assert it, try to hide things behind it, but i don t think that s right or will be successful. he states the legal standard correctly but makes a leap of faith factually. in other words, yeah, he s right. if this criminality, an exception to criminality there has to be criminality. a little of an open question. i understand where he s tumming from. basically if executive privilege is exerted it will end up in court. you ve heard leap pundits say that and somebody has to decide as they did in the nixon tapes case. pete williams, still with us? had to jump off.
efforts to influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. so the victory lap has begun. this is from lindsey graham, an ally of president trump s, who says this, i have just received top-line findings from attorney general barr. good day for the rule of law. great day for president trump and his team. no collusion, no obstruction. the cloud hanging over president trump has been removed by this report. bad day for those hoping the mueller investigation would take president trump down. he s, of course, the chair of the senate judiciary committee, katy. we are awaiting response from democrats now to your question, what happens next? what do we expect to hear from lawmakers on capitol hill? well, i think you might hear a battle over how much of this report gets released. now, this is going to be the big question mark. is president trump going to say, release the entire report? this report says, according to what we ve just heard from pete
made it to a.g. none whatsoever. hold on a second here. can you report that? okay. so a little update here. a justice department official says that 30 to 45 minutes from now. so by 4:00, or by quarter a 4:00, the material will be sent to the hill. so we re going get it here within 30 to 45 minutes. the hill is going get in 30 to 45 minutes and at some point after that it will be made public. so it s coming within the hour. so 30 to 45 minutes nap is breaking news. we now have a timeline when it will be delivered to congress. within this hour. pete williams, are we going to be waiting to get it from members of congress or will the attorney general be giving us our own version of this summary? those are details to be worked out. to be worked out. but i would say that the