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General. now, the white house may be feeling confident about the report at this point but we have to remember that this investigation did uncover that there were 16 trump associates who had contact with russians that time and time again when they had these alarming contacts, things you might have reported to the fbi in a normal campaign, they decided to pursue the dirt that was being offered to them, to take the meeting, and over and over again they lied about these interactions. so this could be a report that has some political difficulties in it for the president and his team, even though there are no more indictments coming, fred. there was a stock pile of indictments and charges that did result. all right, sara murray, thank you so much. let s check in with cnn s jessica schneider at the department of justice. the attorney general has been reviewing this report for almost 24 hours. what are you looking for when it comes to principle conclusions and these are conclusions draft ....
Executed an elaborate social media propaganda conspiracy in 2016, while others allegedly looted computers and accounts related to the democratic national committee hack. cnn s fred piraleitgen is in mow for us. what is the reaction in russia even though we don t know what the report says although we do know that it s completed. reporter: absolutely. and i think the russians are also waiting to see what the principle conclusions are going to be. so far there s very little coming out of official moscow, official russia, certainly from the kremlin. i can tell you that russia media of course which most of it is state run, has been pretty straight forward in its reports about the mueller report. however, if you then go to officials and we ve been working the phones and several other devices trying to get ahold of them, there really isn t very much coming. got in touch with the kremlin, we didn t bother to answer our query. we also got in touch with the russian foreign ministry. ....
This moment, fred, safe to say that capitol hill is stuck in a holding pattern similar to what jessica described over at doj, just waiting for the details from the attorney general. fred. thank you so much. joining me right now, former federal prosecutor and cnn s legal analyst san woo, cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins, and cnn s carissa now. this is something else, we haven t heard a word from the president. does this mean the team in mar-a-lago have seized his blackberry? i wouldn t bet on that but we do know the president is golfing right now. we knew he was at the golf course. we have video of him from one of our star photographers who saw the president actually golfing out op tn the links this mornin and the president has not said anything about this yet since yesterday when em mitt flood, one of his attorneys in palm ....
A position to, quote unquote, provide the principle conclusions of the mueller report. so certainly in the time since, everyone has certainly been waiting with bated breath to get that rort, theport, that summar certainly committees here on capitol hill like house judiciary and such waiting for what he would send to get the conclusions of the mueller report. the headline being here, fred, that at least capitol hill will have to wait another day. we don t know for sure when it will come but we do know not today. okay, so, if we re now hearing from barr it s not today, however in the letter it said it could happen this weekend, we also know that members of congress, democrats, were going to have a 3:00 phone call today, is that still on or was that predicated on whether these principle conclusions were going to be revealed by barr? i believe that s certainly still on. that is essentially house democrats just huddling, getting all their members on the phone to kind of game out the str ....