out, and reporters and others reading it online and available online. this is from andrew who covers politics in congress for politico. he tweets this. "mother leaves obstruction question two congress, the conclusion that congress may apply the obstruction laws to the president's corrupt obstruct exercise of powers of office accords with the constitutional system of checks and balances." congressman lesko saying that " the attorney general confirmed that there was no collusion or obstruction of justice. as a member i look forward to reviewing the report when it is released later today." it has been released and is available now. you can look at yourself at c-span.org. some 450 pages of the mueller report. it is also going to be put into book form within the next week

or 10 days, or so. this morning on washington journal talk to the publisher of melville house for how that process will proceed. host: you can comment on the release of the mother report -- the mother report. . .or republicans, 202-748-8001 for independent, 202-748-8002. it will be delivered in cd form. viewers can get into another form. joining us to talk about it is dennis johnson, the cofounder and copublisher of all borough houseboats. good morning. what is the role that your publishing company will take in the mueller report? guest: we feel that if you make it available as a book, it will get to more people. a lot of people do not look at the online versions offered by the government, or bother to contact the printing office to get an expensive printout is a manuscript.

-- as a manuscript. we think that if it is available as a book, it will get more widely read. it will be in home and public libraries, and people will have a chance to see what they paid for. host: your publishing company got the rights to publish the book. how? guest: it is a public document. there is no obtaining of rights. we already own it as taxpayers. host: how did you get permission to publish it as a book? guest: by being an american citizen. you do not need permission to publish something that is a public document. host: we have been talking about this idea of a redacted report. how does your version treat those? guest: we will publish the report exactly as it is released to the public. it will include whatever redactions that attorney general ed: --

has put in. host: when will you expect that report in book form to be published by your company? guest: we hope by 10 days. host: will there be an online version? guest: yes, we will publish it as an e-book. these government documents, the thing with them as publicly released as they are often not very high quality, not very readable. for example, the torture report released by the senate was a really poor quality pdf that was unsearchable. we will make these things so that they will be searchable, usable, nicely laid out and easily readable, and try to improve that way. host: we have heard about the number of pages expected in this report. how do you turn that around in 10 days? guest: it is quite a difficult

endeavor, but we will throw our entire staff on it. we may even have volunteers come in to help us with that. we have to get the goodwill and good effort of everybody in the process, from the people working on it in production right on down through the people that will work with the printers and the truck drivers who deliver it. host: in that process, what is the most time-consuming? is it the layout process? can you expand on that? guest: right now, for us, it is as much of a mystery as to everyone else as what this document will be, what kind of form will it be. what kind of electronic document, will it be a pdf? what kind? et cetera. then we will know how we have to make it. it might be very easy to make, copy a pdf, or something that is difficult.

three redactions could make this difficult because there is no way to type a reduction so maybe we have to do that by hand. it depends on how it is released by government. if we have to do it by hand, that is quite a process. we will work around the clock and hopefully it will take our office workers about three or four days to get it made and then sent to the printer and the shipping. that is a process that at its fastest will be about five days. host: go ahead. guest: that is why i am guessing about 10 days here. there is still this element of mystery in not knowing what exactly will be released, how many redactions. host: will you charge for the final product? guest: yes. host: how much? guest: $9.99. host: some people say they have

paid for this product via taxes already, why should i pay for a book version? guest: they should pay for the book expenses. book as aing the mass-market, the classic american development of the sick -- of the 50's and the size that was developed so that books can be priced less expensively and get to more people, especially young people, that was an idea in the 1940's and i think it is relevant in this case. i will not be able to convince the printers to print this -- -- for free for us but it will , be a minimal cost available to more people who want it. they will not be able to get it without some expense. host: the final product that you make will be just what is released in the report? they will not be additional material added? guest: we feel very strongly -- some of our competitors, there will be several publishers making this book.

it is a good thing. everybody has a different idea of how to package it. one of the competing issues is going to include an introduction by alan dershowitz, who is a trump supporter. i feel that shows you how if you include that kind of other material with it, you are giving the book a sort of bias that is unavoidable. i think the american people deserve to be respected enough to read this on their own and understand what is in it. there will be a world of discussion. we will not be talking about anything else in the media for the next several weeks and perhaps even months. there will be plenty of analysis outside of the documents that people wanted, but they should get the documents and nothing and nothing but the document. host: how much interest will be in your product and how many books will you print? guest: 50,000 copies. right now, looks like we are going to ship close to that

number, so we may be going back for a reprinting soon. it has been a very encouraging response. people want this document and want to be able to read it on their own and not be told what is in it. host: mpbooks.com is the website if you want to check it out. guest: mhpbooks.com. host: thank you for your time. this is where it will all take -- you do not have to wait until the book is published. the mullah report has been released and delivered to congress and posted online. we have a link to the report at www.c-span.org. you will find it right there on our homepage. we are covering events today in reaction to the release of the mueller report. we will show you the news conference from attorney general

-- william barr momentarily. there is a news conference coming up with the chairman of the house judiciary committee. ands at 1 -- 2:30 eastern we will have that live from new york, here on c-span. andress, and the house senate out for passover and easter rake. that news conference is in new york city. just some reaction from the senate side. the senate needed shary committee and kamala harris tweeting this, "the attorney general acting more like trump's defense attorney. his press conference was a stunt filled with political spin and propaganda. americans deserve the unvarnished truth. we need special -- special counsel or mueller to testify in congress. bill barrting this, " opened his mouth and donald trump's words came tumbling out. we need to hear from robert mueller."

and craig kaplan tweeting, " senator lindsey graham -- senator lindsey graham's statement. it says "they have received their special report and the review is ongoing. once again i applaud attorney general barr bank for his commitment to transparency. i look forward to hearing the attorney general's testimony on may 1, 2019. that will be the first of two hearings at the attorney general will testify before the senate judiciary committee, and in the house judiciary committee that first week of may, and those will be alive. again, waiting to take you live to jerry nadler's news conference and other events. i would like to show you the news conference from the attorney general at 9:30 eastern.