dispersed a team on both sides to make sure that the letter that i m holding here now mine s a little weathered from being outside, that was put down in front of the four committees at the exact same time at 5:00. at that point we got the word of the justice department, ran to the camera, and now we all have this letter, and we re waiting for the next step, which is what are those principal conclusions. let s talk about the next step. what are the guidance here? here s what we know. the regulations state mueller would put forward a confidential report on who he charge and who he didn t. that is the exact reference barr makes in this letter, basically saying that as soon as this weekend potentially, he could transmit to come those principal conclusions. that could be something as short and as unsatisfying as the list of indictments we already know
a team to the democrat and republican side of beth the house and senate judiciaries to make sure that letter i m holding here now. mine s a little weathered from being outside. that was put down in front of the committees, all four senate, republican, democrat, and house. we got word of the justice department, ran to the camera and now we all have this letter and we re waiting for the next step, which is what are those principal conclusions? what is the guidance here in terms of what the regulations say and what can we expect based on what barr has said? the regulations state that mueller would put forward a confidential report on who he charged and who he didn t. and that s the exact reference barr makes in this letter saying as soon as this weekend he can transmit to congress those principal conclusions.
made public. now it s in william barr s hands and will he live up to the commitment he could he s left himself room to go either way. what s that? he can say i ve done it all by the regulars which doesn t require much to disclose or give the bigger stuff about the investigation, declination. jack reid urges him to testify before congress about the evidence he gathered which is going to be a call you ll hear from democrats no matter what the report says. but carol, that is a sort of backstop i think that democrats in congress are banking on should they feel that barr essentially is a bottleneck here? they can do that. neither barr nor mueller are individuals who call a lot of tension to themselves and, you
but we re shocked, to tell you the truth, that white house has been failing to turn over documents requested by elijah cummings, the chair of the oversight committee. that s not true of everybody who received a document request. thousands of documents have come in, but not from the white house. so we hope that the lawyers in the white house will prevail upon the president to comply us with his legal duty to turn over documents that have been h requested by the oversight committee. thank you so much for taking the time. and joirning me is a democrat from hawaii where she wroted against the nomination of current attorney general bill t barr. obviously you had doubts about mr. barr. your reaction to the letter he s transmitted to congress?ea i think in his letter he says he s going to be as transparent
that can be as short and unsatisfying as the list of indictments we already know about and other names that are redacted. i think it s fascinating that barr has decided to give himself a weekend time frame. it would have been totally reasonable for him to say three business days or by the end of the week.bu because there s no automatic assumption of misconduct here.at the deed one thing we should remember in america tonight is t 22 months ago donald trump fires james comey. said he did it because of russia and thought i dare anyone to di deal with that. we do it my way. and rod rosenstein and i think other nonpartisan people said no. and they basically held the line and then later when he tried to fire mueller, his own white d house counsel held the line. and tonight, if we know-nothing else, we know donald trump failed in his efforts to removek comey without accountability and