bob mueller is done. does that mean there are no possible indictments left or do we not know that yet? >> i think there is a strong possibility of additional indictments including president trump's family. maybe not by the department of justice. i know you want to stick to the mueller report. but the mueller report cannot be viewed in isolation. >> if you have a question for the senator on this newsy night, i'm curious what you want to know from this member of the judiciary committee. >> well, i agree with you. i think there could be the possibility of a sealed indictment. i think it's a tough one though. i would expect that to come out by now. just since the report has been trans mitted for over an hour. my gut that is not likely. there could be indictments in other investigations in the southern district and investigation and others. i think for senator bloom enthal, if the president asserts xoo executive privilege in some way, what is the committee prepared to do about that? >> key question. first, and

mueller. >> from bob mueller. i haven't heard you speak to his integrity at all, but i'm hearing you say, echoed by the history we just showed and people like former prosecutor starr that the notion that this would be wrapped up by the attorney general is odd, just as janet reno did not resolve the clinton issue. attorney general richardson did not resolve the nixon issues. and so barr, as you say, is putting it in a maximalist position. there is one other thing about this that i've got to ask you, and i just don't know what happened here. i'm curious if you do. there is a requirement under the rules that congress should be notified about the decisions about who to charge and not charge. and on friday, barr said he was going to do that as soon as this weekend. does this letter constitute that? because it seems to deal very hermetically with a few things, but doesn't in any way tell congress about the other individuals or other issues under investigation that were declined to be charged. does that requirement still

mueller do to what did bob mueller write. and that is an important, if subtle, change in the sort of mystery that confronts us as a society. >> alexa, ben is talking about the known unknowns to borrow the phrase from don rumsfeld. and we've known the unknowns for a long time here. what is your sense of how this changes the landscape in washington? >> i think clint braup up a good point earlier, whether it's house democrats saying we want all this information or that's president trump. sean hannity's show had a banner that said collusion/dilution. so they're out there getting ahead of this as soon as it's over trying to claim victory. i think if anything, despite the known unknowns, the tea leaves that people are referring to and that we've been following for almost two years, in spite of all that. i think unfortunately we're at a moment where it feels politically paralyzed or like the two sides are going to believe whatever they want with regard to had report, even if it shows that the president has done anything wrong. i thi

and there's no collusion. >> bob muellerer can't be bullied. he can't be intimidated. >> this is big stuff. mueller is the guy to do it. >> all eyes are on robert swan mueller the third. >> robert mueller investigation is one of the most prolific in history. >> if evidence of conspiracy or obstruction of justice is found, mueller investigators have any proof of president trump's involvement? the secret probe has been far reaching charging more than 30 people with crimes. >> it could be a domino effect that leads to the end of the presidency. robert mueller's findings could be the first piece to fall. >> inside look at the man behind the investigation. >> he was a great leader. he was quietly effective and was a fierce opponent. >> you cannot have a more formidable adversary their bob mueller. >> he was playing three dimensional chess while trump is playing bingo. >> we may see charges relating to the president of the united states. >> all we hear about is this phony russia witch hunt. >> i would call it the witch hunt. >> a disgraceful situatio

despite what might be said about bob mueller by president trump, bob mueller has caied out his duties with professionalism. i think now what we need to do is be prepare to accept his findings and mov on so we can address the issues that most americans are concerned about. >> let me go back to pete williams to get more on the time linesor of how things has a clock begun ticking that the attorney general has to ofer things congress or is it open ended? >> it's open ended. there's no requirement in the special counsel rules on how soon the attorney general has to tell congress what mueller's report says. but he has submitted -- it's a one-page letter that william barr, the attorney general, aisubmitted to the an and ranking members of the house and senate judiciary ancommittees. he says, i may be in a position to share with you, that means those four people, to advise you of thepecial counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. let me explain whathat means. what he's saying is, what we tstr, lekester.d ouwhat tthe special counsel rul say is that when mueller submits his repo

that was never bob mueller's charge. it was to find the evidence, follow it where it goes, prosecute people that needed to be prosecuted if the evidence was there. as you have laid out in a number of different ways. and then turn the report in. that's what he's done. now we enter the political phase of this. >> the first piece of good news. no indictments on the underlying charge of joining the conspiracy. we don't know how or why he reach that conclusion either. >> we don't know that. you're right. there's no new indictment coming. that means there's no collusion. a significant number of people were charged. >> it means there was no conspiracy. collusion is not a legal term. >> fair enough. but of the people convicted of crimes, none of them were convicted for conspiracy or collusion or anything related to russia interfering with the u.s. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to bob mueller for exposing what the united states republicans and democrats alike, need to know. which is what other governments are trying to do in

i don't want bill barr as a shield between what bob mueller did, what bob mueller concluded, and what the american people get to hear about that, craig. you know, when we look at bill barr's letter, he quoted on pages 2 and 3 just 42 words of the bob mueller report. we need the whole report. the american people need the whole report. bob mueller said, according to bill barr, i cannot clear the president on obstructing justice. now, that matter has to go to congress because they need to determine whether there's enough evidence to conclude the president obstructed justice. >> cynthia, just going to that point there, bob mueller apparently, you know, doesn't offer this conclusion on the question of whether the president obstructed justice, providing evidence according to mr. barr. on both sides of the question. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i think it is classic mueller. he knew that his charge was to figure out what happened. he knew he was not allowed, under department of justice policies, to indict the president. that's the rule the olc memo. he knew that the decision maker

for those folks, protect bob mueller has now become, to hell with bob mueller. fication of bob muler is becoming the villfication of bob mueller. now the republican position is unified. we need to move on. again, if 19 federal prosecutors , 40 f.b.i. agents, working 18 hours a day for the last two years, couldn't find any crimes to charge donald trump with, house chairman and a few house staffers shouldn't be wasting our time looking for them. i want to be real clear about this. the special counsel looking for how russia meddled in our election was not a witch hunt. but when it comes to investigating donald trump further for crimes, bob mueller didn't charge any crimes. bob mueller says there are no witches. so democratic efforts to continue these investigations would in fact be a political witch hunt for no other reason than for political gain. so, i want to close by anticipating your first question. the full release of the mueller report. republicans are united in our position that we do want the full release of the report as allowed by law. that's the same po

that could be -- now, i will say all the people who worked with and learned from bob mueller in bob we trust, so i think i've heard others, chuck rosenberg and jim comey say it's about the process, and we're all confident that bob mueller has engaged in the process the way it should be handled. so i think we're going to have to wait for the results and hopefully we're all going to have confidence in the results. >> so you know, i think what's striking, chris, is how much energy the president has devoted to undermining the very institution of the special counsel, and frankly, law enforcement in general. if you think about it, if you remember the tv show madmen, one of the main lines is if you don't like what people are saying, change the conversation. rather than address any of the legal issues on the merits, it's attack the fact that bob mueller and rod rosenstein weren't elected officials and that he won a big election. this is all part of long now two, three year process of undermining institutions. he's gone after congress. the president's gone after the special counsel. we're going

now i will say the mueller, in bob we trust. i heard them say it's about the process and we're all confident that bob mueller has engaged in the process the way it should be handled. so i think we're going to have to wait for the results and hopefully have confidence in the results. >> so, you know, i think what is striking chris is how much energy the president devoted to undermining the very institution of the special counsel and law enforcement in general. if you think about it and remember the tv show "madmen" if you don't like what people are saying, change the conversation. rather than address any of the legal issues on the legal merits, attack the fact bob mueller and rosenstein weren't a elected officials. this is part of a long now two, three-year process. he's gone after congress and after the special counsel and we'll see much more of that in the next few days and it's undermining the very, very nature of our system of government. i think, you know, in many respects it's a 20/20 strategy far more than legal and gettin

bob mueller. >> you know bob mueller. how well do you know bob mueller? i told him how well i knew bob mueller and the barrs and muellers were good friends and would be good friends when this is all over and so forth. >> reporter: back in june before his nomination. barr wrote this unsolicited memo to the justice department. in it he appears to criticize part of mueller's probe, calling it fatally misconceived. it was enough to leave many to wonder how he'd handle the final report. randi kaye, cnn, palm beach, florida. >>> the news continues and we turn it over to don lemon in cnn tonight. >> this is a special edition of cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. breaking news, the attorney general, william barr publicly releases his four page letter summarizing the principle conclusion of bob mueller's report. the news is huge. mueller did not find donald trump's campaign or his associates conspired with russia. he also did not exonerate the president of obstruction. there is a whole lot to dig into. dig into t

the american public wants to know what bob mueller thinks and what he found. and i think the big question that, you know, kara was talking about is did bob mueller decide not to prosecute because he can't prosecute a president or because he shouldn't prosecute this president? and i think that's one question that the american public really wants answered. whatever they come out with, i can guarantee you is going to be interpreted in different ways. the president may claim vindication. at the same time the democrats say, this is enough evidence to impeach. that's the kind of country we're living in. >> who should be left to sbre t interpret? because we know if bill barr does that, if he interprets, if he editorializes, that could be a problem. >> i think he's trying not to do that. i think he's trying to take what mueller wrote and provide the facts of what mueller's conclusions were. >> we just got word officially now that capitol hill lawmakers have been told they can expect to receive a letter from the attorney general, from bill barr, in the next 30 to 45 mi

mueller punted and no one will know any of that fact until we see what bob mueller wrote. jim, on the other side, which we always try to look at all sides of this, the president's lawyer decided on the big monday night news to come on "the beat." we were thrilled to have him. and here was part of his explanation of their view of it in our exchange. take a look. >> while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him. so what does not exonerate mean to you. >> they did make a determination. that's all it means. they did not find the president committed a crime. they did not make a determination. what did they do? they either -- for whatever reason they had internally they had a discussion, they decided that it was not going to move forward as a crime. it says while this report does not conclude the president engaged in a crime it doesn't exonerate. >> jim, stuck in the question. the bottom line when this report comes out and august the facts are laid bare it will be bad news for trump and sooner or later that will come out.

mueller can help him do that with integrity, or prps because alternatively he knows that bob mueller has a huge ace in the hole where he can always go testify to the democrats in the house side if there's any issues that he thinks still should be publicly aired and barr, the smart attorney general and litigator that he is, wants to keep mueller in the fold. >> and neal, i want to go to these regulations, justice department regulations as well as special counsel regulations. and to that first paragraph in the attorney general's letter where it says the special counsel did not propose anything that "was so inappropriate or unwarranted under established departmental progress -- practices that it should not be pursued. there were no such instances during the special counsel's investigation." now, there are many possibilities i think with that line. isn't it possible that the special prosecutor, one of the things the special prosecutor did not propose was indicting the president even though evidence existed for indicting the president, for example, in the southern district of new york in

. >> and we'll be talking about bill barr as much as bob mueller. he completed another tour of duty. it is time to go home. i'm sure they consult with the attorney general. there are loose threads, things to finish. i'm sure he will be asked to testify, but the pressure and the attention now switches to the attorney general and what he does with this thing. >> why don't we play what the attorney general said at his confirmation hearing. let's play that sound. i'm told we don't have that yet. our control rooms are still trying to figure it out, but he did -- okay, let me say the republican and congress will be informed of the special council's office. barr says consistent with regulations and the law, yes. he says the special council report is a report by the attorney general. he believes he will take this into his own hands, does that mean he writes his own version of this report? is that how he could be reading that? >> i think which he do it one of two ways. and that could mean taking it and redacting classified information, it could be going to c

bob mueller is fundamentally a marine and a prosecutor. and this, i am sure, from his perspective is a tour of duty that has now ended. i can tell you that he, in my experience working with him, for him, by him, has always tried to do what he thinks is right. that type of person by the way is not well understood by the political types. he's not motivated by personal gain, he's not motivated by publicity, he's motivated by doing what's right. and i don't think he's really going to pay attention to us. >> you have told me that he is known to ask unironically to his employees what have you done for your country today. >> what have you done for your country today? that's sometimes you get a note on your chair saying where are you at 5:30 a.m. >> sorry. just not a morning person. that sounds funny. chuck rosenberg, jeremy bash, berit berger, can't think of a better panel to start us off on this monday night. appreciate it very much. and coming up for us, the trump white house on the offensive now, now that robert mueller has wrapped up his work

mueller can help him do that with integrity, or perhaps because alternatively he knows that bob mueller has a huge ace in the hole where he can always go testify to the democrats in the house side if there's any issues that he thinks still should be publicly aired and barr, the smart attorney general and litigator that he is, wants to keep mueller in the fold. >> and neal, i want to go to these regulations, justice department regulations as well as special counsel regulations. and to that first paragraph in the attorney general's letter where it says the special counsel did not propose anything that "was so inappropriate or unwarranted under established departmental progress -- practices that it should not be pursued. there were no such instances during the special counsel's investigation." now, there are many possibilities i think with that line. isn't it possible that the special prosecutor, one of the things the special prosecutor did not propose was indicting the president even though evidence existed for indicting the president, for example, in the southern district of new york in

it doesn't say that bob mueller left it to me or bob mueller asked me to weigh in on it. it just says the fact that bob mueller left open the question leaves it to me to say something about it. in some ways, i understand why an attorney general for a particular president wanting this to get -- wanting us to all get passed it decides to opine on it. but i don't think it's desposative. >> but what do people do with that? so the fact that all this ambiguity about obstruction, now what are we supposed to do? >> we're supposed to get the report. >> and when we get the report, then it's up to congress, if there was obstruction that congress sees, it's up to them? >> yeah, i think so. that's how it's been in the past. it's interesting that bob mueller and his team have not shied away from charging crimes of obstruction or things like obstruction like lying to the fbi. in fact, many of the charges have been squarely within an obstruction statute. it's important to know how close a question it was, how much evidence there was of obstruction. as a political matter, i'm not a politi

>> so, look, i would never presume to speak for bob mueller. i will say like everybody we've all watched him closely over the past 18 months. and he's obviously a patient man. he didn't react every time donald trump, you know, called him conflicted and called it a witch hunt, et cetera. and i really have to believe that while there is a lot of misinterpretation at this point going on about what mueller has or hasn't said, right? he has not said no collusion. at least as far as we know through barr's own words. that is not what mueller said. and so to the extent that is being repeated, that must be frustrating to him. but he has a report, and we now at least have a clue that it's a very substantial report, which could mean apparently less than 1,000 but clearly more than several hundred pages if it's substantial. and i think that he understands that that report will come out because it has to, because that is the only way that we are going to fully understand here what happened. as far as we know, bob mueller took one thing off the table so far.

now i will say the mueller, in bob we trust. i heard them say it's about the process and we're all confident that bob mueller has engaged in the process the way it should be handled. so i think we're going to have to wait for the results and hopefully have confidence in the results. >> so, you know, i think what is striking chris is how much energy the president devoted to undermining the very institution of the special counsel and law enforcement in general. if you think about it and remember the tv show "madmen" if you don't like what people are saying, change the conversation. rather than address any of the legal issues on the legal merits, attack the fact bob mueller and rosenstein weren't elected officials. this is part of a long now two, three-year process. he's gone after congress and after the special counsel and we'll see much more of that in the next few days and it's undermining the very, very nature of our system of government. i think, you know, in many respects it's a 20/20 strategy far more than legal and getting

mueller will finally be >> bob mueller believes in american institutions, so i think he wants to set the institutions up to make the best decisions that they can. >> that was our chief political analyst, gloria borger reporting. an excellent report indeed. we're going to have much more on all the breaking news just ahead on the mueller report. >>> also a new claim over victory of isis in syria, not from president trump but from u.s.-backed forces who are on the ground. we'll have details. stop by your local jackson hewitt and get all the benefits of a tax pro. with jackson hewitt you get 100% accuracy and our max refund guarantee. so, switch to jackson hewitt. open late and weekends. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. that's a win. but it's not the only reason i switched. geico's a company i can trust, with over 75 years of great savings and service. ♪ now that's a win-win. switch to geico. it's a win-win. oh no. your new boss seems cool, but she might not be sweatpants cool. not quite ready to face the day? that's why we're here with free hot breakfast. book at hampton.com fo

>> well, look, bob mueller had 22 months to examine this. he put together what it sounds like a series of facts, both exculpatory facts and to come to the judgment if donald trump was guilty or responsible, was at least reached the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt when it comes to obstruction it doesn't sound like bob mueller thought that he was in the best position to make that judgment and -- >> meaning? >> meaning that there's this other body, other branch of government, the legislative branch, congress -- >> i feel like you're being very nice and careful. i know you worked at the nsc. you have the cia here. you tell me if i'm wrong, this is not bill barr's decision to make. that mueller knew that, if mueller thought a prosecutor should make this decision he could have made it or recommendled it one way or the other. mueller could have cleared trump on obstruction too. if anyone has proven they're fair and open minded tonight it's the excerpts of bob mueller that obviously were very fair to the president, his advisers, regardless of

would hide any material findings of bob mueller? it would be pretty foolish to do so. >> i think he certainly intends to hide the grand jury material and that could be very substantial. there's one of two courses that barr could take right now. and he's clearly decided to take the one that is less transparent and more hiding of the evidence. and that is, he could do, as we did, as we saw in watergate, he could ask the court for permission to share that evidence with the congress. that's what he should do. if he is true to what he said during his senate confirmation, that he would be as transparent as possible, as the rules in law would allow, then that is the course he would take. but that does not appear to be his course at all. >> you know, i hear your answers. i've been reading them about bob mueller, we'll wait and see whether or not we need him. why? what would be wrong with bringing him in? if you want transparency for the american people, why isn't it a given that you want bob mueller to come in and testify in public so peopl

but i want to read bob mueller's conclusions. what we got was a four-page distillation by a political appointee of the president. and you'll pardon me if i don't take his word directly for it. besides which i think the american public deserves to see this work product. director mueller deserves to be congratulated and thanked for his service. and let us remember that for the last two years, the administration has been engaged in a nonstop hour-by-hour attempt to discredit the reputation of bob mueller. haven't heard much of that in the last 48 hours, though, have we, erin. >> no, obviously, that's been a complete about-face. but when you say a distillation of the report by a political appointee, are you saying you don't trust the attorney general? >> no, not at all. remember, as it relates to this point in particular, i'm not making that point generally. but remember, attorney general barr on an unsolicited basis submitted a 19-page single-space memo to the department of justice last summer about why it is that they shouldn't pur

bob mueller did not find chargeable collusion. democrats calling for r a full releast of the report. let's get right to it our paul butler, eleanor cliff is here. a senior doj official and jean rossi. we have been doing a lot of laws here. eleanor, i turn to you on what washington thinks. what do they think of this collusion and barr who's taking a big swing with a big muscle move against the person who was the biggest muscle, affiliated with the doj, bob mueller. >> the resistance has spent the last 22 months with mueller and spending a lot of time and every jot and everything having to do with russia. the results of this have really made a lot of democrats question whether they put their faith in the wrong horse. and no one is going to bail on robert mueller. i think that's not appropriate. right now i think they're looking at barr, at the attorney general and wondering how rigged this whole thing may have been going in. >> did he work it this weekend? >> well, those hours spent pouring those many pages. if he had not come out o

and bob mueller would have put that in the report. there is a reason he did not draw the conclusion in that report. he thought it was congress's fought and we have to know bid barr talked to the president in drawing these conclusions or bob mueller confirm about this beforehand? he owes the american people an explanation. >> according to the summary, bob mueller did not find any evidence of conspiracy or collusion between the trump campaign, donald trump himself and the russians lifting the cloud on the presidency when it comes to questions of conspiracy or conclusion. how far are you willing to take these obstructions of justice. >> there are two things. the russia interference with our election. he concluded that the russians wanted trump to win. the russians hacked into the dnc e-mails and manipulated social media for false propaganda. there was definitely interference. we don't know the extent of the evidence since the trump campaign involvement. we know it does not rise to the level of criminal conspiracy. you can be convicted or

at records bob mueller didn't. the mother investigation was narrowly focused on russian interference -- the mother investigation was narrowly focused on russian interference and collusion -- the mueller investigation was narrowly focused on russian interference and collusion. guy: is there any chance he has to testify on the hill? what good would that do? reporter: i think bob mueller is not going to testify about things he chose to leave out of this report perhaps he thinks still touch on national security issues or ongoing law enforcement investigations. i don't think he's going to elaborate in a public forum about those things. i suspect anything he's already written that is in that report that then becomes public, he would be quite content to go and speak to congress about it. i don't think the issue is necessary well or -- necessarily whether bob mueller gets subpoenaed. i think it is what avenues congress pursues that he did not cover. i think he chose to interpret his made it very narrowly to avoid partisan

and will bob mueller end his probe without any further indictments? and why is the president emphasizing someone else, bill barr, will decide whether to release mueller's findings? well, to put a twist on a classic piece of wisdom from christopher wallace, if you don't know, now you don't know. because i'm going to be honest with you. only mueller knows tonight what comes next and only trump knows why he's going down memory lane and hedging his bets on his newly installed attorney general. let me bring in a power panel, melissa murray, elie mystal, a man who is infatuated with the southern district of new york, and sam seder, the host of t tth the majority of new york radio show. why do you think first and foremost drrp is reminiscing about the last time he was eyeball-to-eyeball with rob mueller? >> this is straight out of the playbook. delegitimize everyone who has an opportunity to delegitimize you. if you make it sound like there was some kind of cozy relationship with robert mueller and then robert mueller becomes the special counsel and drops th

a man who bob mueller's campaign helped. george papadopoulos. don't go anywhere right now because "hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> bombshell. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. the attorney general's letter on the robert mueller report stirs the country. it says mueller cleared trump and his people, including his children, on the russian front. barr quotes from mueller's report that the investigation, quote, did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities. that's the box office news of the weekend because if mueller had found evidence of a crime there, the calls for impeachment would have been resounding and could even have reached republicans but he didn't. as a consequence, republicans are even less likely to back impeachment and certainly not conviction and removal from office but now comes the big stickler, obstruction of justice. according to barr's letter released to congress late yesterday

bob mueller did not find probable collusion. despite claims from attorney general barr, muler did not claim exemption of justice either. hey want attorney general barr to explain himself under oath. let's get right to it. former federal prosecutor paul butler, eleanor clift is here, and former federal prosecutor gene rossi. we've been doing a lot of law here on our special coverage. in a few moments, i'm going give my breakdown on all the crimes mueller busted and what he finds. eleanor, i turn to you on what washington thinks. who what do they think of this conclusion? what do they think of barr with a big swing with a big muscle move with the person with the biggest muscle associated with the doj bob mueller. >> the focus of the media has spent the last 22 months lauding robert mueller, the integrity of his investigation, spending a lot of time on every little jot and tiddle of everything having to do with russia. and i think the results of this have really made a lot of democrats question whether they put their faith in the w

but we will be heavily guided by what bob mueller did. we are not going to try to reinvent the wheel. and if bob mueller exhaustively looked into the i.r.a., this troll farm, and he exhaustively looked into the hacking and dumping operation, i'm circumspect about how much value we can add to that. but there may be many other aspects of the investigation that bob mueller or rod rosenstein decided that were beyond the scope of what his charge was, that still leave the country vulnerable. >> and so it continues. congressman schiff, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> you know, you have to ask about how much and how long, because there's a political cost to this type of probing. poll after poll says voters didn't turn out in the midterms because of the mueller probe, but because of health care in large part. now, the president has turned his face toward that issue. and he says his move, get rid of the aca in the courts. problem is, no plan to replace it and not great law in his favor here. there's a lot of spin about the ac

>> i think bob mueller is an american hero. i think bob mueller is a guy, even though he came from an arguably privileged background, has a backbone of steel, he walked into a fire fight in vietnam to pull out one of his injured colleagues and was appropriately honored for that. i've known him for 30 years as a prosecutor and a friend, and i think the world of bob mueller. he is a very deliberate guy, but he's also a class act. and a very justice-oriented person. >> ty cobb also spoke about current trump lawyer, rudy giuliani, and his efforts to discredit this russia investigation. >> i was there for the white house. rudy is there to represent the individual. but keep in mind that you can criticize the strategy, it wouldn't have been my strategy. i don't feel the same way about mueller. i don't feel the investigation is a witch hunt. rudy and the president have been effective in a way that, you know, would not have been preferable for me, but they have ratcheted up the public's concerns about the investigation and its legitimac

bob mueller did not find chargeable collusion. democrats calling for r a full releast of the report. let's get right to it our paul butler, eleanor cliff is here. a senior doj official and jean rossi. we have been doing a lot of laws here. eleanor, i turn to you on what washington thinks. what do they think of this collusion and barr who's taking a big swing with a big muscle move against the person who was the biggest muscle, affiliated with the doj, bob mueller. >> the resistance has spent the last 22 months with mueller and spending a lot of time and every jot and everything vhaving to d with russia. the results of this have really made a lot of democrats question whether they put their faith in the wrong horse. and no one is going to bail on robert mueller. i think that's not appropriate. right now i think they're looking at barr , at the attorny general and wondering how rigged this whole thing may have been going in. >> did he work it this weekend? >> well, those hours spent pouring those many pages. if he had not come out o

i have to admit, myself, i want to hear it from bob mueller. i imagine others want to hear it from bob mueller. not william barr. not jerry nadler. i want to hear from bob mueller. >> i agree. chuck todd, good to see you. thank you. >> thanks, alex. >>> ahead on "up." david gura will talk about this with senator chris coons and representative pramila jayapal. l ♪ limu emu & doug what do all these people have in common, limu? [ paper rustling ] exactly, nothing. they're completely different people, that's why they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual. they'll only pay for what they need! [ gargling ] [ coins hitting the desk ] yes, and they could save a ton. you've done it again, limu. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ [zara larsson - "wow"] ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop drop say oh my drop drop drop ♪ ♪ make u say oh my god my drop drop ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop make u say oh my god ♪ (door bell rings) it's ohey. this is amazing. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you oka

i trust bob mueller. i think he's written a report based on the evidence he's found but we need to see the report. >> should barr -- barr seems to have -- >> an interesting question. >> on obstruction of justice when in fact that wasn't his position to editorialize on obstruction of justice because he was never going to indict the president anyway. >> yeah. i mean, you'd think a summary of the report would be a summary. maybe quotations of key paragraphs. that's what summaries are. not quotations of parts of sentences. no. he had to make his own conclusion i guess as attorney general. i believe he probably had the discretion to do so about what he found there to be -- he found obstruction of justice or not. put it this way, i know bill barr and i respect him. i don't think he'd go outside the four corners of the law doing his job, but he'd view it within his discretion as attorney general to act in a way he thought was right and he thought served the country and he thought served -- >> yet, he was hostile

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rob: well, you had to expected, trump reelection campaign pouncing on bob mueller's report releasing video slamming democrats for all of those claims about collusion. jillian: are they helping his bid for reelection, big question there, here to weigh in republican strategists and ceo of american majority ned ryun, good morning, ned, you're getting chuckle right now 5:15 on the east coast anyway, what do you think this does to the president going forward? >> well, i think it absolutely helps him, guy, the reelection bid, even if mueller probe was continuing in 2020 and now i think he's been cleared of all collusion and i think all obstruction thing is complete joke and democrats will have a run time running against him if economy continues to be strong and policies continue to be success but the thing about it too that people aren't really i think though cussed -- focused on too much, do you think i'm so glad that we cleared misunderstanding and move on, heck no, the next 2 years would be problematic for the democrats. i would like to know where all of this started, i want to see the

. >> will you accept bob mueller's conclusions in the report once you read the whole thing? >> i assume bob mueller being a very good and thorough professional that there will be good and adequate documentation and reasoning in the report to support his conclusions in which case it will assert them. if they don't have documentation they don't do it. >> if he didn't find evidence of collusion here, does that make you temper some of your investigations? >> i don't think it tempers the investigation. we have to look at whatever loose ends there are, and we have to look at whatever we don't know. >> do you plan on calling bob mueller to testify before your committee? >> if necessary, but that's a very big if. >> why would you say you wouldn't want to hear from him. i'll be honest, as an american citizen and as a taxpayer who helped take care of this report part of me would like to hear from him directly. >> that would be very pleasant, but the fact is he gave his report, he speaks through that report. if that report answers all our questions there would be no need to call him an

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. >> he end listed bob mueller. he knew that bob mueller had this incredible reputation in washington. >> now trump views mueller's relationship with suspicion. >> his best friend is comey. a bad cop. >> mueller loyal. is denial it but it is part of the land scape as his work ends and the country waits to see how bob mueller will finally be heard. >> bob mueller believes in american institutions. so i think he wants to set the institutions up to make the best decisions they can. >> and congress, the justice department, and the white house, may be on a collision course over just how much of mueller's entire investigation should be made public. >> thank you for that reporting. >>> massive effort underway to rescue more than 1,000 people stuck on a cruise ship. the shipment's engine has failed. whooo! want to take your next vacation to new heights? tripadvisor now lets you book over a hundred thousand tours, attractions, and experiences in destinations around the world! like new york! from bus tours, to breathtaking ad

mueller, the reason weed had bob mueller, were americans conspiring with russians to undermine the 2016 election, and the answer to that is no. bob mueller, who was not limited by time or expense or by resources, apparently is concluding there was no collusion, there was no conspiracy, there were no crimes by donald trump or those associated with him as it related to russia and vladimir putin. and if that is true, maria, the most important takeaway, i think, and the ironic takeaway for the american people would be that the very people who for two years have been accusing donald trump of treason, who have accused hem of working with vladimir putin would themselves be the ones responsibility for giving vladimir -- responsible for giving vladimir putin his greatest victory over american democracy. think about that. a dossier funded by the democrats, peddled through the obama intelligence community, falsely very orfied by the obama justice department, then sold to the american people by those very same elected democrats and willing folks in the media. all of that taking place really is extr

know, mueller, how well do you know bob mueller? and i told him how well i know mueller and how the barrs and mulers were good friends and would be good friends when this is over. >> reporter: back in june before his nomination. barr wrote this unsolicited memo to the justice department. in it he appears to criticize part of mueller's probe, calling it fatally misconceived. barr denied being critical of mueller but it was enough to leave many to wonder how he'd handle the final report. randi kaye, cnn, palm beach, florida. >>> the news continues and we turn it over to don lemon in cnn tonight. >> this is a special edition of cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. here's our breaking news. the attorney general william barr publicly releases his four page letter summarizing the principle conclusions of bob mueller's report. the news is huge. mueller did not find donald trump's campaign or his associates conspired with russia. he also did not exonerate the president of obstruction. there is a whole lot to dig into. dig into the attorney general's

will the public see bob mueller testify? he seemed to suggest that bill barr would testify but before the house judiciary committee, set the lanes between what the house intelligence committee will do and the house judiciary will do going forward. schiff suggesting that perhaps even if there was no more indictments, there could be compromising information involving the president. we will see that argument from democrats going forward, on though there was no indictment for the president or anyone else, there could be troubling information. will they see any of that information? will the public see any of that? will they see any of the underlying evidence? that's the big question going forward and what the democrats are gearing up to fight in the days and weeks ahead. >> those are important issues. jeffrey toobin, i want your reaction to what we hear from the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> well, the intelligence committee is going full speed ahead. regardless of what mueller finds. the counterintelligence iss