That i would be very happy. Absolutely. Lets not forget i know we have said it. But this investigation is over. The president never sat down for an interview with Robert Mueller. Thats huge. That was always the big question and something the lawyers never wanted to happen. They were able to prevent that and a subpoena fight. Robb eert mueller never put in request that was rejected. Thats very significant. Stay with me. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. Very Important News here in washington. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We want to update our viewers here in the United States and around the world on all of the dramatic developments unfolding right now. Pamela brown, tell our viewers what we know right now. Theres really significant historic information coming from the Justice Department. This is a momentum occasion, wolf. This nearly twoyear investigation by Special Counsel
Robert Mueller has now ended. The Attorney General has notified congress that it
All eyes will be on that department of Justice Press conference and the one and only Robert Mueller will be speaking. That wraps it up for me in this exciting news hour. I am now turning over to my friend, Chris Jansing who picks up coverage. 10 00 on the east coast im Chris Jansing in for hallie jackson. What a huge breaking news story were following for you at the top of the hour. Robert mueller the Special Counsel in charge of the investigation is coming out at the department of justice. He is scheduled to make a statement on his investigation at the top of the next hour. His first Public Comments on the probe since he started as Special Counsel more than two years ago. A full team of reporters and experts who have been following this investigation throughout. Let me start with ken delaney in
our washington bureau. Ken, this is someone throughout the investigation did a remarkable job of keeping things under wrap and stopping any leaks from coming out. We have not seen him. He is so
i don t think there s anybody who would say he did well. this is one of the worst performances in the history of our country. all right. joining us now to talk about all of this we have maggie haberman from the new york times and jeffrey toobin former federal prosecutor. great to have both of you here. let s talk about the top line conclusions that robert mueller testified to yesterday. they were in the report, but he put a finer point on them yesterday. here they are. president trump welcomed russian interference and lied about it. generally president trump s written answers to robert mueller were untruthful. that was new, jeffrey. trump encouraged wikileaks as we know and robert mueller found that problematic to say the least as he said. trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice. robert mueller fears that accepting foreign help in campaigns is now our new normal. and robert mueller himself was not seeking the job as the fbi
need to go home and if that hurts their election, my question is does this change and whether or not democrats can keep the ball rolling over a six-week recess expected to begin beginning next week. john and alisyn? lauren, thank you very much for setting us up with all of that. we have alley hoanix, john avlon, cnn political analyst and tanu. great to have you all here on this special edition of new day. let s look at what we learned from robert mueller. let s look at the top line conclusions we learned from robert mueller. number one, president trump welcomed russian interference and lied about it. two, generally mr. trump s written answers were untruthful. three, mr. trump encouraged
i think it will be very powerful to hear it come from mr. mueller himself. julian? well, congressman, in 98 when we were effectively defending president clinton, it was easier to play defense than it was for the republicans to play offense when public opinion shifted against impeachment as it had done here. seems like the republican playbook is careful to stick with the bottom line conclusions of mueller, which is there is no underlying criminal conspiracy and that he will continue to remain noncommittal on the question of obstruction as i think he probably has to. it seems to me the game you have to play is to get him to commit to the idea that i wasn t really making a final judgment on some of these legal questions. i was deferring it to congress and then you kind of have to get into what are going to be some very graphic details. it s true there wasn t evidence of conspiracy but that doesn t mean there was evidence of collusi collusion. there are dozens and dozens of