All eyes will be on that department of Justice Press conference and the one and only Robert Mueller will be speaking. That wraps it up for me in this exciting news hour. I am now turning over to my friend, Chris Jansing who picks up coverage. 10 00 on the east coast im Chris Jansing in for hallie jackson. What a huge breaking news story were following for you at the top of the hour. Robert mueller the Special Counsel in charge of the investigation is coming out at the department of justice. He is scheduled to make a statement on his investigation at the top of the next hour. His first Public Comments on the probe since he started as Special Counsel more than two years ago. A full team of reporters and experts who have been following this investigation throughout. Let me start with ken delaney in
our washington bureau. Ken, this is someone throughout the investigation did a remarkable job of keeping things under wrap and stopping any leaks from coming out. We have not seen him. He is so
not, democrats still claiming the president obstructed justice. does this just give the left more fuel for impeachment? to debate is ned ryan, former presidential writer for george w. bush and d dawkins hagler. we appreciate you joining us. good morning. let s start with you in your response to that particular statement mueller made? i saw a political hack trying to convince us that in uncharged person was not innocent, turns everything on its head, guilty until they can prove themselves innocent which is in defiance of long tradition of the presumption of innocence. the fact his mother could have said two things. we had sufficient evidence to charge but we had no authority to charge. he didn t say that. we found evidence the president did in fact obstruct our investigation. he didn t say that either. the fact of the matter is his
written form. we know that he wrote two letters to bill barr. when you look at what we re going to hear this morning, do you expect in any way those disagreements and those unusual r letters, including this statement mueller saying to barr at the time a private letter that barr summary didn t capture the context, nature and substance of mueller s work and conclusions. do you see that as a jumping off point for today s remarks at 11:00? that i don t know. i mean, we have reported just recently that he s expected to deliver a substantial statement. that s a word that someone close to him used with us. and it s going to take about eight minutes or so. but the actual substance we don t know. the only detail that i have, it s not in response to these claims in michael wolff s upcoming book about a reported draft indictment for obstruction of justice against the president. that question about the letter is inest the interesting. will he air that out a little
viewers are going to like it if i say that but there s actually there s no specifics. no specifics and there are no facts here, which is very, very interesting. go ahead. the prize is you get to go to mar-a-lago. she has one audience member at least who s just loving this. this is his nightlife, to just replay her. and she s as much as an ego maniac as the fellow who enjoys it. i did her show once, and she insists you call her judge, which i wouldn t do. it s not a personal attack. you just can see it all you can see it all working, how it works. the president likes to hear it, she likes to hear it. and the trump transition lawyers say that mueller s team unlawfully obtained thousands of e-mails from the transition team. in a rare statement mueller s team pushed back saying in part when we have obtained e-mails
ads. the moves were announced ahead of a busy week on capitol hill for the tech companies. on tuesday, reps from facebook, twitter, and google will appear before the senate judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism. they will answer questions on russia propaganda, online and extremist. the next day the senate intelligence committee will hold a hearing on russian interference in the 2016 election. here to talk about what we can expect to see, brian stelter, cnn senior media correspondent and host of reliable sources. what are you expecting? partly, this is about the past and partly the future. this is a part of the ongoing investigations on capitol hill into russian interference in the election. statement mueller is doing his probe. congress is doing its work. there are a lot of questions about those facebook ads, those russian-linked ads that showed up on facebook last year. there were 3,000 of them. the facebook has turned them over to congress and this week, we will likel