but first, molly henneberg live outside the justice department. molly, what are we looking for in this report? reporter: hi, ed. in general, we re looking for the main conclusions regarding collusion with russia and obstruction of justice. also we re looking at what does it mean for president trump. in addition, we re looking at is this the it? meaning is what we get today all we re going to get from the report, or will there be more? attorney general william barr arrived this morning, and he s been here with his assistant attorney general rod rosenstein, they were here yesterday and they re here today. democrats want to know why, how robert mueller reached his conclusions including why no more indictments. we have to see the report. the entire country, the public needs to see the entire report so we can see what the special prosecutor says about these questions. reporter: and not just the report, nadler says. democrats say they also want to see the supporting evidence and inform
that s okay. dear chairman graham, nadler, ranking member feinstein and ranking member collins. as a supplement to the notification provided on friday, march the 22nd, i am writing to advise you of principal conclusions and to inform you about the status of my initial review of the report he has prepared. the next section is titled the special counsel s report are. on friday the special counsel submitted to me a, quote, confidential report explaining the prosecution or declamation decisions he has reached. this report is entitled report on the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, unquote. although my review is ongoing, i believe that it is in the public interest to describe the report and to summarize the principal conclusions reached by special counsel and the results of his investigation. the report explains that the special counsel and his staff thoroughly investigated allegations that members of the presidential campaign of donald j. trump an
especially in iowa, the reporting there is they don t bring this up very often. they want to focus on something else. so how are they able to do both? well, i think you do have unanimous opinion pretty much here in washington, the president, chuck schumer, 420 members of the house all think it should be made public. i think the democrats think there s more in there, so you have this unique moment in time. but so much of what happens in washington actually is not being played out in some of these early primary states, and i think that s why you see the schism about what you re reporting about in iowa and other places. they don t pay attention to the ongoing drip, drip, drip that we all do because we live it and breathe it inside the beltway. dana: take a listen to this, this is senator kirsten gillibrand. she was in new york at a very iconic location making a big announcement. watch this. the mueller report must be if made public. [cheers and applause]
very clear that in the absence of very compelling evidence that there isn t going to be an impeachment. but one of the reasons why it s so important that this underlying evidence be shared with congress is that so so we don t have to reinvent the wheel, we don t have to go through all the same interviews as bob mueller. reporter: and it s clear some leading democrats are considering calling both attorney general william barr and robert mueller up here to testify. the american people deserve to know whether donald trump is either, a, a legitimate president; b, a russian asset; c, the functional equivalent of an organized crime boss; or, d, just a useful idiot who happens to have been victimized by the greatest collection of coincidences in the history of the republic. reporter: democrats do not sound inclined to wrap this up with this mueller report. dana: but, of course, the president has his supporters. what are they saying? reporter: no question about it. democrats may live t
report. that was nonbinding, but that effort did stall in the senate leaving big questions about how much underlying information the public will actually see. barr has said he ll release as much as he can by law, and no surprise, deep partisan differences today on what the next steps should be. at the end of the day, if this report comes back as it seems to be coming back, that there was no collusion on the president or the part of the campaign, then that is the part we need to take and move from here. the job of congress is much broader than the job of a special counsel. the special counsel was looking and only look for crimes. we have to protect the rule of law. we have to look for abuses of power, we have to hook for obstructions of justice, we have to look for corruption and the exercise of power which may not be crimes. ed: chairman nadler also said it s the, quote, equivalent of a cover-up if the justice department does not release that underlying information from mueller s r