Oldfashioned way with decades of stood just public service. A prosecutor who is so respected, when he walked out to that lectern one week ago today and announced he didnt want to speak about his probe after that. Many responded deferentially, like, well, i guess thats it. He doesnt want to speak again and hes bob mueller. Isnt he usually right . That was how a lot of people reacted including some very important people in congress. But that understandable reaction is not any kind of legal rule. It is more like a feeling. You might say you understand that feeling. He works hard. Maybe he knows best. I want to be clear about the facts that explain some of what im about to tell you. Legally, this is not up to mueller or barr or certainly donald trump. Congress decides who is subpoenaed and the few in congress who make that decision. The speaker and a very small number of relevant shares. Tonight, they seem to be coming around to the public position that they will make mueller testify regar
Political capital, in his words, everyone dies. Adding he does not regret taking the job. In many ways id rather be back to my old life, but i think that i love the department of justice, i love the fbi, i think its important that he would not, in this period of intense partisan feeling, destroy our institutions. I think one of the ironies today is that people are saying that its President Trump that is shredding our institutions. I really see no evidence of that. From my perspective, the idea of resisting a democratically elected president , and basically throwing everything at him, and you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president , thats where the shredding of our normts and our institutions is occurring. Really . Stop and think about what he said for a second. And how appropriate it is that the man who decided unilaterally what Robert Mueller would not, that there wasnt enough evidence to say that the president had committed a crime, also se
Congress demanding that attorney general barr deliver them the report by this tuesday but while that will not happen, the attorney general told them in a letter that they wont have to wait much more longer than that. In a letter to senator Lindsey Graham and congressman jerry nadler this afternoon, attorney general william barr said that he hopes to be able to release the Mueller Report by midapril, if not sooner. At maralago, President Trump said hes putting his full faith and trust in barr to release everything hes able. I have great confidence in the attorney general. If thats what he likes to do, i have nothing to hide. This was a hoax, this was a witch hunt. In a surprise move, barr said hes been given full autonomy by the president writing, although the president would have the right to assert privilege over certain parts of the report, he has stated publicly that he intends to defer to me, accordingly there are no plans to submit the report to the white house for a privilege rev
The special counsel requested that barr release the introductions and executive summaries that they prepared from his 448page report and even suggested some redactions to make that possible. Senior Justice Department officials were reportedly shocked by muellers letter. A day after the letter was spent, barr and mueller spoke by phone for about 15 minutes, according to Law Enforcement officials. In that call, mueller said he was concerned that News Coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the offices work, according to Justice Department officials. Mueller reportedly did not claim barrs letter was inaccurate, but the summary letter was being misinterpreted. Quote, throughout the conversation, muellers main worry was that the public was not getting an accurate understanding of the obstruction investigation, officials said. Im joined now by a reporter on this story for the Washington Post tonight and who helped write an introduct
Concerns about that, serious enough to write his old friend the attorney general. Cnns pamela brown has the details. Explain what weve learned about the letter. Reporter we are learning tonight, anderson, that special Counsel Robert Mueller sent a secret letter to the attorney general in late march, in the wake of that fourpage letter that the attorney general had sent to congress about the special counsels investigation. As you pointed out, bill barr, the attorney general, provided the principal conclusion saying that the special counsel did not find collusion and that it couldnt reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice and then went on to say there wasnt sufficient evidence to show obstruction of justice. That conclusion reached by barr. Now were learning mueller sent this letter to the attorney general expressing dissatisfaction that that fourpage letter from bill barr did not accurately capture the nuance in the more than 400page Mueller Report that we have now seen in the reda