Well. Jon meacham, always such a pleasure to have him as part of our broadcast, especially on a consequential friday night. That is our broadcast indeed for this friday and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Have a good weekend. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. A couple of hours ago, maybe even less than that, i was standing knee deep in a trout stream in tennessee. But now its mueller time and so im in a studio in the great state of tennessee. The trout are basically just as safe as they were when i was flailing away at them ineffectually this afternoon. But now it is listen, its this is history. This is a reason to stop fishing and go to work. Our job tonight as a country sort of or at least what
everybody in the country is going to be doing tonight is trying to figure out what it means that the report of special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally been submitted. Weve heard it said so many times that it was imminent, that it was done, maybe it
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all their wealth would corrupt our offices in our new modest country. you know, it s hard to say what is the president s clearest constitutional violation, but i think it s the foreign emoluments clause because it is so clear and so sweeping that the president simply has to report to congress and get congress approval for having any business dealings with a foreign government. not just the president. any officer of the government. right. imagine if john kerry, while he s negotiating the deal with the iranians was receiving valuable sums of money from iran without telling anybody. imagine that the trade representative with china is receiving valuable intellectual property, trade licenses for his own personal businesses without informing congress and receiving congress consent. it s a sweeping clause and intended to be so. and it s not just the corruption that s at issue here but the corrosion of the constitution. if we re simply going to
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attorney general. a couple of important things here. number one, obviously bar is saying explicitly i did not block robert mueller from doing anything that he wanted to do. there wasn t anything that he was trying to pursue where i said no as attorney general i m stepping in and blocking you from doing that. interesting, i would like to know more from that. that s the blunt assertion from attorney general william barr. also, barr is going to maybe as soon as this weekend brief mueller s principal conclusions to the leadership of the judiciary committees. we don t know what principal conclusions are. we don t know for sure that it s going to be this weekend, and we don t know how constrained the leadership of those committees will be from sharing that with other people including us the public, but three, separate and apart from that, barr is thinking about what beyond those principal conclusions can go to the congress, and to the public, and you get the sense from the way he wrote this
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