the report from robert mueller how far he is willing to go on has been received by the that is the next battle on the attorney general and so, look, again, this is an important moment for the trump presidency. it is something they have been horizon. you have been waiting tfor anticipating the day they could this report as all of us have. finally say that the investigation has been completed. they can now move onto what is essentially going to be what they believe is going to be a political process. it will be a fight over what are the contents of robert mueller s this was a letter to congress. report, whether members of congress will be able to see all along he has probably made i anything that mueller found in think most clear that he thinks his nearly two-year that he can t share the actual investigation. that will be something that will report. be a political and perhaps even that s a confidential report a legal fight whether or not they will be able to see that. from the special
it also they reck cog fliezed we look forward to getting how serious it is and maybe they transparency and nothing less. the need for public faith in the will release more than we think. rule of law must be the we understand the public interest. priority. our chief legal analyst is now, what you ll hear from democrats, the top democrat on with us. the senate intelligence saying it is a pretty specific letter nothing is short of providing to ranking members of house and you dish area committees. au all of the materials. it is. i believe as pam said there s a he said in his statement exactly lot of news in this letter. that. he said this needs to be swiftly the fact that mueller was never declassified so nothing short of that will suffice. th during this investigation. he never said i want to do x. they have been pushing for not just the report to be released i want to subpoena this person. but also the underlying everyide i want to incite this person. i want to travel to this coun
was not enough to prove this. there was not enough to prove that. we didn t pursue charges here. we don t want to see a repeat. certainly the attorney general does not want to see a repeat whether he stood up and went through everything that hillary clinton did bad. this attorney general, this department of justice, this fbi does not want to go through it. he has not during his confirmation hearing he did not answer the question of what he would do. he wasn t asked what he would do with any impeachable information. if there was conduct in the report that he couldn t bring charges for whatever reason but that s concerning or derogatory. we don t know what he is going to do, if there is that kind of information in the report. they just said special counsel s
preview to the president or his staff. the president and his staff are expecting a sneak preview. that s right. he didn t get it. as he reported before anything is let me get back to laura. i want to be precise. when you expected it to be made public, all of the information that pelosi and schumer it is not even close to all of the information they are deplanning. they want to see the report and underlying facts and juicy details. as we have been reporting the expectation has been that he will distill it and he will figure out what he thinks is able to be transmitted to congress and by extension the public and there will be a fight about it is enough to go to to
the justice department telling delivered the report pursuant us bill barr has we sooreceived and it will determine the appropriate next steps. report. it is now over. so obviously it is a big moment for this white house. it is an investigation that has hung over the presidency of donald trump since is beginning it was apply kated. obviously. the question is what is in that or anything like that. report. they are we are viewing what he found in their investigation and will tell congress. it will be a bill barr report the special counsel report. and something that will be much less than what robert mueller provided in his investigation it was at the white house. let s step back a little bit. as ho how they are going to respond. i thought it was. if you compare it to just an and sources close to the white average justice department house, people inside the white investigation. let s go through that. house, inside the legal team all starting to sound much more 37 defendants including six t