joining me now jacqueline alemany, josh gerstein, former federal prosecutors carol lamb and steven mull roy, steven is a law professor at memphis university. welcome to all four of you. jacqueline, as we await the ag barr release of the report, principal findings, are democrats set too high of an expectation what they expect to be revealed or what will be in that report? well, alex, what we re seeing here is uncharted waters. you have seen democrats do in the past few weeks is sort of try to build up these other investigations that have been surrounding the mueller report from house judiciary to house intel to the various investigations into potential financial wrongdoings by the president and some of his allies. again, it s just we don t know what is in this report. i can t stress that enough.
22-month long investigation. a historic weekend certainly. this hour, attorney general william barr reviewing the highly participated mueller report as he decides what to release to congress. here s what else we know. house democrats will strategize their next move in a conference call about three hours from now. nbc news has learned house republicans were cautiously optimistic last night during a conference call. barr told congressional leaders yesterday he may release the top conclusions from the mueller report as soon as this weekend. as for the white house, it says it has not been briefed on mueller s findings. the president is at his florida golf club as supporters seize on reporting that the special counsel is not recommending any further indictments. if there s no collusion that was found, it strongly vindicates president trump but raises serious questions about who is going to be held accountable at the fbi, the bad act areas that had a political
for me the sort of outstanding question that s sort of fascinating is what about don junior? and a lot of people have asked me, why wasn t don junior interviewed and the best i can tell, the only theory i really have is that don junior is represented by counsel. you would call the counsel and never send him a subpoena directly. is he probably a target for the campaign finance violations in new york because cohen identified him. he signed the checks. he s in big trouble in the southern district of new york. if mueller wanted to talk to him, he would call the lawyer. if the lawyer said don junior is going to take the fifth amendment, that would be the end of it. we are very carefulful somebody says they re going to take the fifth amendment we don t do a perp walk or make a big deal about it because we re penalizing somebody for the exercise of their constitutional rights. that is interesting. how did it happen exactly that don junior wasn t interviewed? i m looking forward to finding
over that. they want the broad line conclusions to get out as quickly as possible and they re even sharing with the media and the public the same thing they ll be sharing with congress which was a question up till just yesterday. okay. julie and make mike, thank you. much appreciated. joining me gerry connelly, an i member of the house oversight and foreign affairs committee. let s get right into it here. house democrats are scheduled for that call about two hours a little less than that right now. you re going to be on the call i would presume. i m curious what you ll be discussing. we knew this day would eventually come. has there already been subpoena discussions for mueller and barr? i don t think there have been discussions in detail. there have been general discussions about at some point what we want to hear directly from mr. mueller in terms of clarifying what s in the report and what was behind his thinking in making or not making certain decisions. but there s been no spe
are no indictments recommended by mueller does not mean that there is not a lot of damning material in there about the president or the people around him. but maybe there isn t. this could be a one-sentence report, a one-page report. it could be a 100-page report. we have no idea. some of the outstanding investigations are of vog the president s finances. you re reporting new details about his long and symbiotic be relationship with deutsche bank. tell me what you ve learned in general, the tenor of this. why did deutsche bank continue lending to donald trump despite executives saying the bank should not do that due to his history of defaulting on loans. also his construction industry relationships with people tied to organized crime. and then put that together with what the mueller report may reveal. well, deutsche bank has been lending to trump basically on an exclusive basis for almost 20 years now. this is the only bank that would touch him because he kept defaulting. that is n