Arriving this morning. He and his assistant attorney general, rod rosenstein, are working today and worked yesterday trying to figure out what the gist of this report is, how to summarize it and what to release to congress and the public. Special counsel Robert Muellers work on the probe is done. You could see him this morning as he went to church. We asked him earlier today how he felt about the report being completed, and he had no response. Democrats say they want the whole report made public as well as the underlying information and evidence. Republicans say the law prohibits that. Very much doubt that bill barr is going to turn over classified material or material subject to executive privilege or, most importantly, grand jury testimonies that bob mueller has received. The job of congress is much broader than the job of a special counsel. The special counsel was looking and only look for crimes. We have to protect the rule of law. We have to look for abuses of power, we have to lo
criticized, i think is generally regarded well by both sides of the aisle doesn t make any sense to me. there s a lot of pressure on the department, but i think if the department learned anything from the jim comey fiasco it s follow the rules, follow their standard procedure, and even if you get a lot of heat for it, do what you would normally do in a typical prosecution. sandra: robert, as you said earlier, this is a good time to take a step back as we await the initial findings, the results of this investigation, and look at the scope of the investigation, why it was launched and why it happened to begin with. two years, indirect, direct expenses totaling $25 million, lots of resources thrown at this investigation. did you ever see it go beyond the scope of the probe? well, it s hard to though exactly what the scope of the probe was because the special counsel had the ability to to to the deputy attorney general and ask to expand if he needed to in
show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving simple. easy. awesome. stay connected with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. sandra: attorney general bill barr going over the mueller report as we speak. he could deliver a summary to congress in next couple of hours. exactly how much of that report ultimately makes it to the public eye is up to the attorney general. robert kris kohl is a former driscoll is a former deputy assistant attorney general. thank you for being here today. who knows how much of it we ll actually see. we know that the attorney general and the deputy attorney general are huddled inside the department of justice right now. what can you tell us about the process right now before they
certain areas, and my understanding was the original scope of the probe was russian interference with the election and, essentially, collusion with members of the trump campaign and issues related to the investigation. so i think that the false statements and things like that are clearly within scope. anything having to do with the election and russia was clearly in scope. so i don t think that the independent counsel or special counsel, sorry, was running amok. you know, i understand the president s frustration and other people s, but i think he was doing the best job he could. and, again, i think that he was trying, as the t. s going to try to do now, to follow the rules as closely as possible regardless of where the politics would take him. sandra: robert, finally, we know as i pointed out, we just had a live look outside the doj, we know they re inside the doj, the a.g. and the deputy a.g., and we know that william barr said publicly that he s going to seek the add advice and the