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states, if mueller finds information out that says this, absolutely the attorney general, here barr, has the discretion to turn the report over the congress. indeed, he has to. the overall intent of the regulations that s said time and time again is public confidence in the administration of justice. and any sort of suppressed report of presidential wrong doing will flunk that test. let me read part two. it s barr to congress. it says this, the attorney general will notify the chairman and ranking minority member of the judiciary committees of each house of congress with an explanation upon conclusion of the special counsel s investigation. an explanation. that could be anything. how do you think bill barr will interpret that? it s an interesting conflict potentially between the plain language of the regulations and the intent of the framer here. who sees a little more in it maybe than the plain language. i think barr has great
look at michael flynn. he had already told people in the administration he was going to talk to the russians in the transition period. and he apparently told andy mccabe he knew they were listening. he reads a story in the washington post saying he s under investigation for the logan act and tells something allegedly untrue to vice president pence and lies to the government about it. why? it s a big mystery why some of the people did lie. but yes, we should absolutely be concerned. i want to talk about the report. neal, you wrote the regulations about these reports. mueller s report to barr. here s what it says in the regulation. at the conclusion of the special counsel s work, he or she shad provide the attorney general with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions by the special counsel. confidential report, no one is going to see it. so what was the intent? it was that it would be law enforcement sensitive material in there. in general, you
lastly, i think the mueller report will end with unfinished business. campaign violations, opposition research that stone and others got from the foreign governments. there will be a lot to look into. i couldn t agree more with heather. this will be a bar set where people will compare conduct in the future with what happened. andrea, i think the real question is going to be how serious is obstruction of justice to members of congress. that s what i think we ll find out. and perjury. these are not process infractions. this goes to the heart of the criminal justice system. i agree with heather. we have let people normalize really criminal behavior and bad behavior and abnormal behavior through tweets. through branding, basically. these are experts on branding. as neal katyal said, if this is a witch hunt, they ve found a coven so far. 37 indictments as he just said here on the program. this cannot be let to stand.
pike people like michael flynn, paul manafort. his campaign manager. michael cohen, his personal lawyer. so if this is a witch hunt, mueller s found a coven at this point. there are smaller ones, like jerome corsi. he expects to be indicted. and bigger fish, as well. both on the indictment front and then you have questions about what s the report going to say? and the like. and i want to get to that. sol, rudy giuliani said he hasn t heard from the special counsel s office in about a month since they turned in the answers to the questions. the lack of communication, should that make the president nervous? i don t think it should make him nervous. but in answer to one of your questions to neal, i think that it s difficult for me to imagine that let s take donald trump jr. if mueller was going to indict donald trump jr., it s difficult for me to imagine that he would