. >>> attorney general william e barr says blic will see robert mueller's report. he believes it will be released within weeks, not months. so far we ve only seen his four-page summary of the findings. it revealed the trump campaign did not collude with russia. barr says there is not enough evidence to prove the president obstructed justice. the president declared himself completely exonerated. yesterday he appeared on capitol hill to take a victory lap of sorts. there are also signs he seeks political vengeance against those who accused him of collus an. he is onin taking aim at healthcare. >> the republican partwill soon be known as the party of healthcare. >> the justice department is asking a federal appeals court to strike down the entire affordable care act. until now the trump administration argued only parts of the law should be struck down. if the court aees, 28 million people could lose their health insurance. >> the gop will never op trying to destroy the affordable healthcare of america's families. >> house democrats unveiled new legislation to strength

ago by the presidt who's the subject of the investigation just doesn't, i don't think, satisfy the blic's right to have the results of something they spent $20 million on. >> he said, though, in his letter that he was going through the process, right now, of preparing the information in order to share it. do you suspect that all of the inrmation that can be shar will be? >> we'll see. i don't know. >> one of the things we do on this show, every episode, is that we show a clip from a previous buckley episode, because in the 33 years that buckley actually aired, he t sically covered every topic, and so you will surprised to realize that he actually dealt with this question of anpe inent prosecutor in 1973, when he had, on this program, william ruckelshaus, who was the deputy attorney general. >> right. who was one of the ones who resigned. >> well, he resigned because he refused to fire the special prosecutor during the saturday night massacre. i want to take a look at a clip from that program. and what buckley is getting ate' is -- than argument that conservatives made for a long time -- i

ethics violations he's facing before being formally disciplined yesterday, he vowed to win back the blic's trust. the vote to reprimand evansou ce wi objection after an emotional statement fromns e himself. >> this is very difficult time for this council and very difficult time for myself. in retrospect i would have done things very differently. >> evans was reprimanded for violating the council's code of conduct. he's accused of using his government e-mail to seek business opportunities with law firms that lobby the district. >> you're showing to the public and to ourselves that that kind of behavior will not be tolerated. >> i want to thank you, ai an, for taking some action the result of ensuring public trust. >> evans was able to hang on to his powerful position as chairman of the finance and revenue committee but an amendment to the resolution strips some important agencies from under that committee, including t sports and entertainment authority and arts andumanities the. evans is under a separate federal investigation as well and depending on that investigation more action may come.

. >> the reason why we should take the president saying this should be made blic with a large grain oft is because the president also said he was going to sit down with robert mueller. he said i want to sit down wit an interview and defend myself. he never did that. he senin writtenatements to a very small number of questions. he did not wantat to be --lk about russian collusion and all sorts of other things. i also want to read because i'm xting with rudy giuliani as we're on air, so excuse that, but i said is there anny react to mueller not recommending any more indictments, and he wro it sounds like it's over. so this is an ally of the presidene of course, tesident's personal lawyer saying this is all meaning that we are clear, we're in the clear, that the president, what he's been saying over the past two years, this vindicates him. that's really early to say because we don't know exactly what's in the report but atmp least the tramp is saying that. >> woodruff: back to these reports, multiple news organizations are saying it's their information, that this mueller report does not r

the two-term democrat said he is wants to find other e ys to serve blic. first elected to the senate in 2008, after serving t years in the house of representatives. he is 75 and the most senior latino in congress. federal prosecutors on both asts have charged attorney michael avenatti with extortion and bank and wire fraud. he is best known fores reting adult film star "stormy daniels" who allegedly had an affair with president trump. in one case announced today, prosecutors in new york said avenatti tried to extort more rs from0 million dol nike with a threat of bad e blicity. >> by engaging in nduct alleged in the complaint, avenatti was not acting as anat rney. a suit and tie does not mask the fact that, at its core, this was an old-fashioned shakedown. >> woodruff: separately-- in los angeles-- avenatti was accused of embezzling $1.6 million dollars from a client. a dozen suspects in a nationwide admissions bribery case pled "not guilty" today in federal court in boston.nc the defendantsde test aministrators and former coaches from georgetown, the univ

and it's going to be very important, number one, that the report is made blic, so the public understandst decisions the special counsel made and the criminal evinc but it's going to be even more stportant potentially that the congress undds if there are counterintelligence risks that this president or those around him are acting not in the national interest but because they have some pecuniary interest or because they'reen behod or compromised in any way. the congress or our committee s particular a statutory right to know, and we expect that the justice department is going to share that information with us because theye going to have to. >> woodruff: well, when you remind us that this investigation began as a counterintelligence investigation, what does that say about what we may or may not be seeing right now in this report? >> well, it means that what we are going to see when the report is made public, and we may have to fight the attorney general to make sure ths,at happut in a very bipartisan showing on a very pocialized issue, the housg overwhel said we expect this to be made publi

i know is that it's critical that everything in that report and the underlying evidence be in the blic and be open to the american people and that transparency is key. america needs answers as to what's been going on and i hopeo the departme justice will not leave things hanging by seeking to keephings secret. i also know that the department of justice believes that itan cannot, unde circumstances indict a president for anything. >> right. they believe they cannot hold a sitting president accountable and accordingly, the only other institution that can is congress and congress must get all of the evidence that the department of justice may have in order to exercise o function of being able to hold the president accountable. if we don'to that and can't do that then the president sffectively is above the law. >> that brings to this ambiguous phrase, right? executive privilege. i'm just curious, whogets to decide -- who gets to arbitrate this? is this up to nee attorney l? >> well, no. the president mu personally assert executive privilege, and i do not believe it exists here at all becau

prophet in treating viewers as consumers instead of citizens in the great gift d of public television blic radio is that we still somehow with the help of people like this it's been able to hold to the idea of the american people as a community of citizens, not consumers. (audience applse) years ago, don, i met a professor of english a great cultural critic at yale, a man named cleanth brooks. and he talked about the bastard muses and there were three baard muses. propaganda, which pleads for a particular point of view sometimes unscrupulously at the expense of theotal truth. nt entality, which works to create an emotional response in excess of and unwarranted by the occasion. and pornography, which focuses on one powerful drive at the expense of the whole personality. in that little interview i did with cleanth brooks, i don't know a long time ago, comes to my mind almost every time i try to watch the news on corporate news, because it is propaganda, largely, sentimentality, largely, and pornography, in the terms of its twisted viewf the human being and they have tso twisted the heart of

it's up to attorney general barr to determine how much information is made blic. he said he intends to consult with rosenstein to determine what other information from the report can be released to congress and the public. earlier, the president said barr should rease the entire report. >> let it come out, let people see it. >> reporter: during his confirmation hearing in january, barr could not commit to full transparency. >> my goalill be to provide as much transparency as i can, consistent with the law. >> reporter: the justice department has a policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted. so if there is any evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the president, it will be up to the attorney general whether or not to pass that to congress for possible impeachment proceedings. >> everyone's reading the tea leaves of the letter. thank you. >>> president trump was at mar-a-lago when word came down about the mueller report. nikole killion is traveling with the president and is in west palm beach. schedule. he appeared upbeat last night. look at video from a local