determine what other information from the report can be released to congress and the public. there are major questions, big questions and calls from congress for robert mueller to answer them. we have the best reporters possible tonight. the atlantic s and joining me by phone the new york times michael schmidt. i m going to have this until somebody answers it. how can the president be pointed to as leading collusion with russia, aiding a russian conspiracy to interfere with our election physical none of his henchman, children, associates have been indicted? he was giving orders to do stuff with the russians. if none of them fwhur were indi how can he be blamed? you re right to question that because we know the president can t be indicted.
i think just because there were no indictments related directly to conspiracy, his henchman were indicted. not yet. not for collusion. but the purpose was to get information, presumably, to flip them on the president toorbs get information what happened during the campaign. apparently mueller didn t think it rose to the level of criminal activity. buts we re going to learn more as the days go on. moments ago senate minority leader chuck schumer warned president trump and his lawyers not to interfere with the release of it. now that special counsel mueller has submitted his report to the attorney general it s imperative for mr. barr to make the full report public and provide its underlined documentation and find toogz congress.
willing to trust william barr? he shows himself to be an absolute defender of the president in the devin nrunes school? maybe the guy who proceeded him school. do we trust it s going to be a complete and full report? he may bury it. in terms of burying things f the president says no collusion. i can see on saturday night live, no collusion. if that turns out to be the case, they don t have a criminal case against him for advancing a russian conspiracy, can he then say since i was innocent of the investigation focus, therefore i was right to defend myself, therefore there no obstruction of justice. the only thing their prime directive, protect trump. the worse. hip of him is what t
pressure to release as much information as possible so they can quote on quote check his homework and see if the investigator truly followed the facts and weren t impeded by politics. there s some indication we ll find out this weekend. and we will just have to see how far he goes. let s use your powers of deduction. if there was a criminal conspiracy to advance the russian interference in our elections led by the president, many would be involved. flynn, it could be manafort, it could be certainly roger stone, rick gates, all his family members, especially those who met with the russians. how can you blame thes for being a rico type leader of the crime
of criminal conspiracy but we can t conclude that they re blameless. so if somebody was paid off for whatever currency to change the republican platform on ukrain, that wouldn t be a crime? that would be bribery, straight up, right? so the question is was there improper influence, which may not be a crime spaeespecially w you re dealing with an adversary. they allowed them selves to be manipulated and used and turned against the democracy, essentially and the details of that, we think are in the mueller report. this letter gives us a clue. this letter that mueller report is more detailed than we thought. he talked about giving the baseline of declinations. and he says there s this other information i m going to discuss about whether we can make this