can begin because if the would us wants to redact too many things because they say it would violate executive privilege, then we re going to have potentially a looming fight with congress as they fight to get access to this and make it public. so, john, it feels like we re a little in the fourth inning of this instead of the end of the road. the fourth inning, but it is a major inning in this case, given we ve been waiting nearly two years for robert mueller to wrap up his work and that could happen as soon as today. thank you very much for that report. joining us now, former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst and i have a piece of memorabilia here. this is my first edition original copy of the ststarr report. this is not what we re getting today under any circumstances. i think you re right, john. so i think that, first of all, if we learn something today it s going to be that mueller has sent the report over to barr. that s where the real
when does barr actually get the information from mueller? when does barr have to provide a summary to congress? how does it kind of play out? it s all, anderson, speculation at this point. so we don t actually know that mueller has turned is going to turn in the final report. we don t know when that is. we do know the special counsel regulations required at some point. and yes, there are all sorts of stories, including first reported by your network that says that the report is coming maybe as early as next week. but this is all still at the level of it could change at any moment. the regulations and the law don t require the report at any time. let s say that mueller turns the report over to barr next week. barr is then going to conduct a review of that report, and i think there is nothing nefarious about an attorney general review of the report that could be classified sources and methods in there. there could be 6-e grand jury information there. other things they re going to wan
information from mueller? when does barr have to provide a summary to congress? how does it kind of play out? it s all, anderson, speculation at this point. so we don t actually know that mueller has turned is going to turn in the final report. we don t know when that is. we do know the special counsel regulations required at some point. and yes, there are all sorts of stories, including first reported by your network, that says the report is coming maybe as early as next week. but this is all still at the level of it could change at any moment. the regulations and the law don t require the report at any time. let s say that mueller turns the report over to barr next week. barr is then going to conduct a review of that report, and i think there s nothing nefarious about an attorney general review of the report. there could be classified sources and methods in there. there could be, you know, 6-e grand jury information in there. other things they re going to want to be very sensitiv
ultimately the american public. so they ll have that review, and then i think the regulations anticipate that barr should turn over or report that summarizes the conclusions of the investigation by mueller and one most importantly, any time that the attorney general either barr or whitaker or rosenstein as the acting attorney general overruled mueller on any of this requests, that has to be detailed in that report to congress. but your it sounds like you re saying barr would give the entire report that he got from mueller to congress, but that s not the case. it might not be the case. exactly. barr has the discretion to do that, i think, if he thought it was necessary, and the regulations touched on this public confidence in the administration of justice. that s the kind of overriding goal of the special counsel regulations. and so i do think when you re
so they ll have that review, and then i think the regulations anticipate that barr should turn over or report that summarizes the conclusions of the investigation by mueller and one most importantly, any time that the attorney general either barr or whitaker or rosenstein as the acting attorney general overruled mueller on any of this requests, that has to be detailed in that report to congress. but your it sounds like you re saying barr would give the entire report that he got from mueller to congress, but that s not the case. it might not be the case. exactly. barr has the discretion to do that, i think, if he thought it was necessary, and the regulations touched on this public confidence in the administration of justice. that s the kind of overriding goal of the special counsel regulations. and so i do think when you re