s helena humphrey joins us now so helena as we know the u.s. attorney general is now reviewing the moeller report a lot of people have been waiting with a great deal of suspense for a very long time to find out what's in it so when can we expect to hear. the short answer is not today we've just heard from the department of justice who says that william barr will not be handing over his principal conclusions to congress today one would imagine of course that he has got a big task ahead of him reading through that investigation of course it took two years to complete but once he has finished that summary he will hand it over to congress and then it is expected to be a public document that said i wouldn't call that the mother reports that essentially is the bar report because those are his conclusions through the prism of the attorney general and as such there are many calls including from the house democrats for the entire miller report to be made public they've just been on a conference call in fact and they have raised the possibility of using

helena humphrey is on the story for us tonight. good evening to you. it looks bad for trump. bad of a setback is it for his wall project? helena: i would say it is a setback that the president himself knew was coming when he declared this national emergency on the lawn of the white house weeks ago p he said he anticipated resistance, that he anticipated this to go through the court system. what is a set back for the president is the number of republican senators who essentially broke ranks. we saw 12 senators, that was not enough to rule out the possibility of a veto and the president says he will detail, and 20 minutes ago i saw a tweet "just saying the word veto." what we can expect is this to go through the legal system, all the way up to the supreme court. it'll be really interesting there, because this is about the separation of powers. at the same time, new justice brett kavanaugh says he is in favor of an expansion and presidential powers. at the same time, of course, this border wall is a key promise from trump' presidential campaigns. today, 600 days to go till the 2

thousand presidential campaign for the very latest we're joined now by washington correspondent helena humphrey helena what more can you tell us. marianna journalists here in d.c. have also just obtained that four page letter from the attorney general william barr essentially it was a summary of his principal findings from the so-called report it was a rather brief summary in which william bos a the mother of poor have now not found as you mention any evidence of collusion between russia and the twenty sixteen trump campaign and as with far as it goes with the president as well as his aides working with him so no collusion there now the matter report also stated that the his team had not decided to indict the president or exonerate him and that's what william bodies heinie general went on to say you said that this is not it's not going to be an indictment anyway sitting presidents are not usually indicted as post justice department policy but it's also not an exoneration so it'll be very interesting to see once we start to obtain more details for example but there are many calls for that were m

helen humphrey is following all these developments from washington for us and she joins us now so helena what else can you tell us about this summary of robert muller's report. it was a very brief summary it was only a full page letter which we received from the attorney general we involved we imagine of course that the justice department. essentially obtained a tome of documents this investigation of course from miller took over six hundred days to complete but this letter says that it found no evidence of weighting collusion between donald trump his aides and russia during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign it did not draw an out right conclusion into obstruction of justice but remember that the president never actually sat down with special counsel robert mueller during this investigation for a one on one interview now miller has also said that he will not exonerate exonerate excuse me the president nor indict him with this report and to critics i think it will be said that he essentially passed the buck to the attorney general william barr who has said also that you know he is

helena humphrey is following developments in washington and joins us now for the latest so helena what other details are now known about what's actually in the special counsel robert miller's report. right so we received a four page summary from the attorney general william barr of what we imagine would have been a very long report from the special counsel robert mueller offshore it took him over six hundred days to complete and in that summary it says that there was no evidence of we've seen collusion between donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign and russia that said the summary of the report did not actually draw any conclusion as to whether there was obstruction of justice we really must point this out and remember of course that the president never sat down for a one on one interview or even date supplied written statements to the special counsel robert muller himself now mother had said that he has not taken the decision to indict the president but he had also not exonerated the president so essentially he left this next step in the hands of we involved the attorney

helena humphrey joins me from our washington studio a letter welcome the u.s. attorney general is reviewing the moeller report what can we expect when can we expect to hear what's actually in it. well essentially the motor report now has moved into another pair of hands that being the attorney general william barr who is currently reviewing it with his deputies the department of justice they are combing through that report and making a summary of their principal points and they're expected to share that with congress michael as soon as this weekend potentially and that could also be shared with the general public will be very interesting to see what they decide to share what they decide all the main findings and certainly william by himself has said that he will be as transparent as possible and it will be in his interest to share as many details as he can because we know that the house democrats are also me simulator to decide their next steps and if they felt dissatisfied with that which is shared they could of course use subpoena power to obtain more details

let's talk about this now with helena humphrey who joins us from washington. saw manafort today put on a show of remorse in the courtroom but it did not seem to convince the judge. helena: no, it did not. mr. manafort certainly resented himself as full of remorse. he arrived in a wheelchair, he was wearing a dark suit. he said i am a shamed of my conduct, i am sorry, he made a plea for leniency. in the previous sentencing a few days ago, he did receive a lenient sentence. that received criticism that the privileged are dealt with in the u.s. legal system differently to those who are not privileged. certainly what we saw today, judge jackson said that you appear to be sorry that you got caught, and that remorse did not move the needle much. what certainly certainly did not help his case is he is guilty of witness tampering. essentially speaking to witnesses, trying to craft their testimony while he was under house arrest, underwrote, and -- under oath, and that does not make a compelling case for remorse. brent: there is still the chance that president trump co

all right we want to dig into this a little bit more i want to cross over now to our very own helena humphrey she is standing by in washington she's on the story for us tonight good evening to you helen that remind our international viewers if you would why this is such a big deal when an israeli leader first of all netanyahu when comes to washington and you know was invited for a two day visit at the white house why is this it's a big deal. brant it's always a big deal because the relationship between israel and the united states has long been a special one since the establishment of the state but with trungpa netanyahu we are seeing something which is becoming stronger a closer relationship between the two countries in fact that proclamation ceremony at the white house today u.s. president donald trump that says that israel and the united states now have never been closer and he signed off on this proclamation saying to benjamin netanyahu take this give it to the people of israel now this recognition of golan heights being part of israeli territory now from the united states i mean essentia

i washington correspondent helen humphrey has been following this for us helena tell us is donald trump now off the hook. i think it depends on how you define the reach of that hook if you're talking about this weekend and certainly it was a moment of vindication for the president and he says this is a win but i think it's important to take a look at the language in this both from the attorney general william vonne special counsel. no collusion is one thing that said miller said that he did not have enough evidence to rule that there was no obstruction of justice one of the reasons for this likely is due to the fact that he was not able to sit down for a one on one interview with the president during the course of his investigation so what it did was essentially people will say is pos the block to attorney general william barr who then ruled that no crime had been committed remember of course bob was hand picked for the post by the president himself certainly the president faces many of the legal battles any nugget switch. uncovered during the course of his investigation he then distrib