People who are absolutely going to be named in this report, and guess what, you were right. They didnt get a headsup. They didnt get a chance to read this report. So far, at least as far as we found, its just one person, and thats the president of the United States. So that blows out of the water the argument of why he said he gave them a heads up, and even more gives even more suspicion to the reality that they wanted to allow the president s team to really work on this rebuttal report and get them ready politically. John, its 11 00 a. M. Here now on the east coast. Were told that the document is being made available to the chairman of the Ranking Member of the house and Senate Judiciary committee. They and their staff will begin to go through it, but its 400 pages. That takes a while. So well see reactions coming out within minutes of them getting it. We were covering the white house back in the starr report day when we were reading it live on cable television, not recommending we go
Room. This is cnn breaking news. As george h. W. Bush is laid to rest here in texas, President Trump is taking a cue from bush 41 to fill a very critical opening his cabinet. Sources now tell cnn that bushs former attorney general william barr is emerging as a leading candidate to lead the Justice Department once again, potentially replacing Jeff Sessions and inheriting oversight of the russia investigation. The president weighing his options right now at a very sensitive moment in Robert Muellers probe. The special counsel is poised to reveal new information tomorrow involving two central figures, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, and tonight mr. Trump and his legal team, they are bracing for impact. This hour ill speak with congressman eric swalwell. He is a democrat who serves on the intelligence and judiciary committee. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, after a lot of speculation about
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One, bill barrs boss as the 11th hour gets under way on a consequential tuesday night. Good evening once again from our nbc headquarters. Day 831. This pertains to bill barr. In plain english, it sure seemed to a lot of people these past few weeks that trumps new attorney general may have shaded the truth of the Mueller Report from the getgo, may have cherry picked the facts in it. He certainly tailored his words to please his boss and gives Donald Trump Air cover, plenty of it to say as trump did loudly and proudly and incorrectly that he totally had been vindicated, no conclusion and no obstruction. Tonight we learned Robert Mueller had some of those concerns as well. Both major newspapers relentlessly covering the story are on the board tonight with different versions of the same big story. Mueller was bothered by what he saw and heard. Enough to write a letter to barr objecting to how his 22month worth of work was being portrayed. The two men spoke on the phone and the attorney gen
Jr. , Paul Manafort and a pack of russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton at a meeting everyone then proceeded to mislead the public ability. So with all that in mind, axios asked a very reasonable question, one that should not be necessary to ask, but seems to be given the times, would he do it again . Heres what he said about that and about 2016. The email that i got in my iphone at the time basically said show up at 4 00. I didnt scroll down. I never would have thought about that. It had russia in the message. Literally get thousands of emails a day. It said show up at 4 00. Would you do it again . The reality is we were not given anything that was salacious. Now, he could have answered, no, i would report it. But he didnt and its staggering that he didnt given what the Mueller Investigation concluded. Heres what mr. Mueller said last wednesday. I will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictment that there were multiple systematic efforts to interfere in our elec