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
and the public in that room? do you have any indication of whether we would expect mr. mueller to come out there alone or whether mr. barr who is overseeing him still and who approved this. we got this through official doj channel may be in the room and behind him and what message that would send. your thoughts on those issues, as well as your thoughts on what we are going to hear. starting with barbara. i don t know. you know the fact that robert mueller is still an employee of the department of justice means to me we are not going to hear robert mueller unplugged. he is still an employee and speaking in the department of justice and william barr remains his boss. and, so, i would imagine anything that he is going to say today has been cleared with the justice department and their office of public affairs. that they ve seen at least the content of what he s going to say and, so, i don t know that we re going to see something that is directly critical of william barr. i would hope th