conference as a whole. my own view is that he has reached different conclusion, more courage than any other republican in the house or senate. but was this all just for attention, here to debate is republican strategist kimberly and formerly deputy assistant secretary of state under obama joel rueben. good morning. kimberly, i will start with you, what do you think he s up to? minority leader got it correct. a lot of people have the mueller investigation mixed up, the original question was did russia meddle in the 2016 election, but hillary clinton lost so many emails and they couldn t answer any questions. it move today whether or not trump campaign colluded with russia, the answer to that is no. president obama had 8 years and couldn t accomplish as much as president trump in 2 years, people are upset, rightfully so,
summarizing the cases he took to court and explaining which ones he declined to prosecute. barr said in his confirmation hearing he understands the interest in what mueller found. i ll make as much information as i can consistent with rules and regulations that are part of the special counsel regulations. reporter: those rules don t call for making the report public at all. they say only that the attorney general should notify congress if he blocked anything special counsel want to do. congress said they will insist to see the whole thing. we will use whatever compulsion we can and must to make sure that the public gets the full story. reporter: democrats might try to force mueller himself to testify about what his investigation concluded. though mueller brought charges against six people connected to the trump campaign none of them were accused of helping russia meddle in the election. among the big questions now did
mueller and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein about how much of the mueller report can be made public beyond the bare bones of who was prosecuted and who was not. the house was urging barr to release the whole thing. now barr has to decide how much to be made public. in all, mueller indicted 34 people as the result of the investigation. six of the people were closely tied to the trump campaign, but none of those were ever charged with helping russia meddle in the election. alex. wait a minute, pete. william barr said he will release as much information as possible as is consistent with the law. you are saying that legally speaking, he does not have to release any. is it possible that other than the perhaps bullet points he gives to congress, that would be it? reporter: i think what the justice department is trying to struggle with here is two conflicting things.
lot of the investigations are extraordinarily personal in nature and confined to just we want to get trump and maybe not as focused on a larger question which is where we started. did russia meddle in the election? how did they do it? what is the extent of it? who is involved and most importantly houshgs important importantly, how do we stop them in the future? there is the trump stuff. i get it. but then will is the forward looking, how do we keep russia from interfering in our democracy. i believe they did interfear. this is where i trust mueller more than anyone else. i want to know what the depth of it was and most importantly how to stop it from happening again. so i think we are to keep that in mine even as all the folk that don t like the president want to continue to fine new ways to go after him. susan, it s not just the house untell committee investigating trump and the administration. the house judiciary committee will be grilling the acting attorney general matthew whit
i think some of these investigations may pan out and some of them may not. i think one of the things that at least a lot of republicans i know are worried about is that a lot of the investigations are extraordinarily personal in nature and confined to just we want to get trump and maybe not as focused on a larger question which is where we started. did russia meddle in the election? how did they do it? what is the extent of it? who is involved and most importantly, how do we stop them in the future? there s two buckets of stuff. there is the trump stuff. i get it. but then will is the forward looking, how do we keep russia from interfering in our democracy. i believe they did interfere. this is where i trust mueller more than anyone else. i want to know what the depth of it was and most importantly how to stop it from happening again. so i think we are to keep that in mine even as all the folk that don t like the president want to continue to fine new ways to go after him. susan, it