and paul mcnulty, he served as deputy attorney general in the george w.h administration and before that served ases sprson for attorney general barr during the firstis bush admation. we thank you both for being with us. i want to ask you, first, sed on what know, both sides are drawing their own conclusions about this very briefummary from the attorney general of the mueller report. what do you make of this, neal katyal? >> well, i think you're right, it's a brief summary but a very troubling sumplet i think the dmost important thing his is what i wrote about in today's"n york times" is barr's conclusion about obstruction of justice. remember, mueller spent 22 monti investigating s. he didn't reach a conclusion, he laid out in his reidrt the ce from both sides, presumably for congress to, evaluad then the attorney general goes in and swoops in, within 48 hours, and says, oh, i decided there's no obstruction of justice here, there's not enough evidence andhen maybe harkining back to his 19-page memo from the summer st year, who knows, but this raises far m

whatever happens wh mueller, is investigation is still going on. >> woodruff: paul mcnulty, how do youd the president's vulnerability in these and other investigations? >> i think neal does identify some uncertainties about cases that have been spun off from this and we'll have to see where .hey g so it's clear that there are other issues out there. i think the attentn has been focused on the collusion question, and that's going to probably, in the minds of voters, with a very significant factor that we're turning the page on that. generally speaking, congress will have a lot to say about that, but time will ll as to what else will emerge from those cillary matters. >> woodruff: paul mcnulty, neal katyal, we thank you both. >> thank you. o and to ayou, please join us later this evening. the "newshour" is >> woodruff: join us later this evening. the newshour is teaming up with "frontline" for a primetime special on pbs on what we've we've learned so far in the special counsel's investigation. >> woodruff: analysts in london say this may be the united kingdom's most significant week sinc