other than that we got william barr's statement and william barr's statement, we can call it the barr report. it raises all sorts of brand-new questions we didn't have before about what exactly is going on here with this investigation, and what fruits it will be allowed to bear. first and foremost, question one, the special counsel's office decided not to make a traditional prosecutial judgment on obstruction of justice. well, why did mueller make that determination and was it a in fact, a choice? did mueller believe that he had a choice in that matter or did he believe he was strainconstray justice department policy? i mean, barr in his report describes this decision by mueller almost in wonder like who knows what this mueller guy was thinking? he decided not to do this part of his job, weird, right? so that has led to whole day plus of speculation and news reporting now as to what this crazy guy mueller must have been thinking when he did that. all we have here is barr's assessment of what mueller did. mueller was reportedly not consulted on the barr report and how barr characterize

it's hard to believe they would leave the newly appointed 68-year-old attorney general william barr to himself to figure out what mentions in this 400-page report might pertain to open cases. they wouldn't leave that to barr to do that. mueller would have done that. mueller's team would have done that as part of producing anything they handed over. they have done that with every other document they produced in the course of this investigation, you would assume they would be able to do that with this, too. william barr said it's taken him a long time because he had to do that himself. now tonight, in this new surprise letter from william barr, barr is identifying two additional categories of information he says he wants to cut out of the mueller report even though he didn't mention them last week. he now says in addition to what he talked about last week, he also wants to cut out material the intelligence community identifies as potentially compromising sensitive sources and methods. and he says he wants to cut out quote, information that would unduly fringe on the personal privacy and

lisa, on that front i want to start with you on william barr's claim, william barr writes that robertately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment on the issue of obstruction of justice. knowing robert mueller as you do, any thoughts about why he may have chosen not to tell us whether or not he believed the president broke the law and credib credibly criminally obstructed justice? >> i think it's going to be important to see what they said on the subject. what we know from barr's letter is that the special counsel and his team laid out what may well be a substantial record, a substantial set of facts regarding obstruction and barr's letter says that was done on both sides of the obstruction question. and then goes on to say that they made a prosecutorial judgment. that's very precise language and i'd like to eat report on thsee this case. but we know you cannot indict a sitting president. so it does not surprise me at all that bob mueller who hue to that guidance and follow that policy. but what i think is quite striking is the attorney general's decision to weigh

attorney general william barr telling congress he remains committed to transparency. he pledges to consult with lawmakers on what information to make public. we have fox team coverage on this. david spunt is at the justice department, jackie heinrich has the latest on a separate investigations in the southern district of new york. weaving with chief white house correspondent, john roberts reporting live from the north lawn. reporter: good evening to you. things are fluid in terms of this letter that the attorney general, william barr will send up to the house with principal conclusions of the millie report. we had thought this morning that we would have it by now. there were told about noon. that will not be until tomorrow. the president's attorneys are telling us noon at the earliest. but nobody really knows for sure. that is just the principal conclusions of the report. getting into some of the meat in the details, the facts of the case will take even longer because in the facts of the case likely will be a lot of material that is classified material that is subject

robert mueller has submitted his report to attorney general william barr. e special counsel has been probing alleged russian interference in 2016 election for the past 21 months. the move they'll setting up a potential showdown over how much of it will be made public. barr indicated he'll send his own summary of the findings to congress rather than mueller's actual report. while democrats have threatened to subpoena mueller to testify publicly about what he found. mueller's team has either indicted, convicted, or gotten guilty pleas from 34 people in three companies, including six former trump advisors and/or associates. dana, we just don't know who's been indicted, who has been exonerated, but the president in talking with maria bartolotta this morning says people will not stand for it if it indicates that there is some wrongdoing because he continues to say it was a witch hunt. >> dana: i want to take a step back and say of course the media covers the angle that was their trump collusion, trump involvement, that has been with the media. frankly we've been

"william p. barr was a lawyer in private practice in june when he wrote an unsolicited memo to the justice department that was sharply skeptical of the special counsel's inquiry into whether president trump illegally obstructed justice. nine months later, mr. trump is now cleared of that offense and he has mr. barr, his new attorney general, to thank. barr's decision to declare that evidence fell short of proving president trump illegally obstructed the russia inchoiry was an extraordinary outcome to a narrative that has unspooled over nearly two years. robert s. mueller was appointed as special counsel to remove the threat of political interference from an investigation involving the president but mueller reached no conclusion on the key question of whether trump committed an obstruction of justice offense." instead, "barr stepped in to make the determination himself, bringing the specter of politics back into the case. democrats seized on barr's move serving it as a hasty and dubious move as a man w

and jill, i want to start with you on your reaction to william barr's letter, what you see in it. >> one, i'm very surprised at mueller's supposedly not making a decision. and of barr making that decision. the only thing that makes sense to me is that mueller intended for the decision to be made by congress, much like happened in watergate. we did not indict. we issued a report of the facts. we summarized the evidence. that's really all the pages of it were mostly just an appendix listing, the transcripts we were attaching. and we sent it to the congress for them to make the decision because it was a political judgment that needed to be made. and that makes sense to me. it does not make sense that a special counsel, who's supposed to be independent of the department of justice would let the attorney general make that decision. to that's the first thing that occurs to me. the other is that he is not exonerated. he the president has not been exonerated of either charge. even if it was clear, of course, they said he was exonerated, that they weren't bringing charges on the conspiracy or

givenr's report has been to attorney general william barr. it will take some time to review. is is only the beginning of the struggle between barr, lawmakers and the white house about how much of these findings and the evidence will be disclosed to the public. i'm reading our bloomberg news right up on this now which you can find on the terminal. this fight is likely to escalate the social media wars between the president and his critics. the president just fired another wars today, that he believes social media, platforms like twitter and facebook, prioritize liberal views. the irony being the president himself is sort of the tweeter-in-chief. whatever mueller found, the completion of this investigation is a big turning point for the president. he has been dogged with increased about this almost ever since he took office. this report has been given to the attorney general, attorney general william barr. he will be taking some time to read this, and then, we will have the results. we don't know how much of the report is going to become public. i believe that is up to congress.

first of all william barr's history. ssions was fired by this president because the president groused about how jeff sessions wasn't loyal to him, specifically in terms of recusing himself and not protecting him from this russia investigation. then you had barr before he was appointed pending that letter where he called the mueller investigation fatally misconceived. now he's the person who's deciding everything that gets released and through what lens it will be seen. the second piece of history they point out to me is the recent history of how a similar investigation around hillary's e-mails was handled whether there was a duckination, determination made, jason chafous, the oversight chair at the time, had james comey up in a chair within two days testifying. he went around the attorney general loretta lynch because he said she was conflicted. so you have a similar situation here. i know there was a lot of grousing about that at the time, but you do hear democrats saying there's a double standard. they can't get even ba

you watch william barr. he is going to find out who started this crap, and people are going to go to jail. if he does not do this, then it is true that there is a two-tier system in this country where people can get away with almost anything. thank you very much. host: connie in chicago. good morning. what do you think? caller: it is troubling. interpretivebarr letter to congress. that is what i call it. they are putting a -- labeling it as mueller's report. that was william barr's interpretation. he was biased from the get-go. letter to me as a cover up to clear trump in the eyes of the nation. that makes it that much more imperative that the mueller report be released in full view to the public and to congress because, like i said before, i do not trust william barr. opinion prior to being confirmed by the senate. underscoredans have and made it possible for this guy to be in the position he has in. to me, -- he is in. to me, it was troubling to see as soon as he took office, the mueller team was broke dow

william barr is expected to send a summary of mueller's report this afternoon.here are calls from both sides of the aisle for the entire report to be made public. >> this investigation of the president and those around him for alleged misconduct and the public should go public in its entirety and see where the chips fall. >> that report and the findings are still coming out. i think the president was frustrated and rightfully so as this report seems to show. sandra: we begin with molly henneberg at the justice department. reporter: this is what the waiting game looks like. it could come in the next few hours or later today or it may not. we do know attorney general william barr is here at the department of justice. we have video to show you of him arriving here early this morning. he and his assistant attorney general rod rosenstein were working yesterday trying to figure out what the gist of the report is, how to summarize it and what to release to the public. we asked him earlier how he felt about the report being completed and he had no response. democrats sa

that is presumably either jeff sessions previously or william barr so at some point he'll have to turn that information over by regulation to folks up on capitol hill but there's no requirement, unlike the starr report that people might remember from the clinton investigation, there's no requirement that this document, whatever it is, become public i can tell you that the trump legal team was not expecting a book, like the starr report. they were not expecting a large document here. there was some reporting going into today that they did not expect ultimately anybody else to be indicted if we are where we are, where we think we are, mueller having turned over that report, today we didn't see any news of new indictments, it may be the case that this investigation has wound down without any major indictments. the two figures who were at the center of speculation about whether they might face indictments or face charges here, don junior, donald trump jr., and jared kushner, the president's son-in-law a lot of speculation swirling around them. no news on them at all so presumably we are at

william barr said that will be the case. i'm looking down. senator elizabeth warren running for white house in 2020, robert mueller's finished his report. he delivered it to attorney general william bar. the american people deserve the full report. sign our petition to make mueller report public immediately. senator cory booker, sign on with him, too, but it will go to a click to raise money. donations. what are your thoughts about getting out? are you worried about that? >> we know the guys are looking for the e-mails to raise money. all the presidential candidates will ride this pony as long as they can. the fact of matter is i stand with the president. release the whole thing. don't redact a darn thing as far as i'm concerned. the fact is the russians were trying to meddle in the elections. i'd be surprised if they haven't tried to medle in every election we had since the soviet union. it's a fact. i know there was no collusion because i was there. i know that the president didn't obstruct because i know what kind of man he is. i'm with him

attorney general william barr. a letter to the house committee, barr says the report explains who mueller prosecuted and investigated, but did not prosecu prosecute. the letter said barr may find the principle clonclusions this weekend. mueller did not follow through with more indictments. as to what else can be revealed about the mueller report, barr said in the confirmation hearing he understands the intense interest. >> i am going to make as much information available as i can that are part of the rules. >> reporter: in his letter to congress, barr will consult with mueller and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein about how much of the mueller report can be made public beyond the bare bones of who was prosecuted and who was not. the house was urging barr to release the whole thing. now barr has to decide how much to be made public. in all, mueller indicted 34 people as the result of the investigation. six of the people were closely tied to the trump campaign, but none of those were ever charged with helping ru

they're fully comfortable with this decision to leave this all in the hands of the attorney general william barr. that barr has got a long and storied reputation in the department of justice and he is a person who is fully capable of fully understanding the implications of executive privilege and will no doubt make the right decisions in terms of what goes to congress. and what does not go to congress. that said, the president's legal team said that they would be comfortable to get it all out there, every bit of it, that can be released, at least, according to the parameters and the confines of criminal law. you can't put up grand jury testimony, not supposed to say things about misconduct by individuals who were not charged. but the president's legal team is fully comfortable with getting all of this out there. they don't believe there's anything in there that they couldn't rebut. and there's also the idea, and you know, if you're going to get it all out there, get it out there now. while everything is still fresh, and everything is at the forefront of everybody's minds, anybody who's trying to

william barr with stunning summary of robert mueller.ld this be enough for democrats to stop waging war on the president and how would it impact the 2020 race?

just how much of this report do you want released but are you personally asking attorney general william barr to do that. i was told that the president does not have any calls or meetings scheduled with barr, they're not on his schedule imminently, but that could change. that is something we could be drilling down on. is that something that the white house also wants to see, barr going out publically or perhaps behind closed doors, answering questions from democrats, republicans, lawmakers who were asking about this. i'm going to get on the record with this here, we have a new statement out from vice president, mike pence, who says today is a great day for america, it's lengthy, i won't read it, but he wraps up saying we can only hope democrats who have spent so much time on these allegations will join us to make our nation more prosperous and secure for all americans. we know he takes the cue from his boss, the president of the united states. in this case it's a shot at democrats down pennsylvania avenue. >> it's a good point about mike pence. you guys have covered the president on the campa

because we now understand that he had -- this william barr had seen the conclusions. he'd been given them some weeks before according to julia ainsley at the justice department. does that take away some of the criticism of barr for making a snap 48-hour decision this quickly on whether or not to prosecute on obstruction which was the one -- the one major issue that mueller did not exonerate the president on? >> so it -- it does somewhat mitigate the criticism, but again, it's taken mueller two years to dig deeply into this and look at very nuanced, subtle, counter intelience and intelligence questions and as mueller describes, difficult issues of fact and law. so the fact that the two years in the making for ultimate decision making still raises serious questions. chief among them for me being a counterintelligence officer for many years is the very question that mueller was supposed to answer which is do we have a compromised president? do we have a president that can remain a decisionmaker in all things russia and none of that, andrea, is touched upon in the four-pag

but there is more information to come, and william barr has made that clear.recognises there isa clear. he says he recognises there is a public interest in all of this and he has worked hard this weekend to get the summary out, but he says he wants to release as much of the information from the report as he possibly can. he says there are legal issues with that, potentially bits of information that are confidential, they could even be subject to executive privilege. but he does want to get more of the report out. and that does leave open the potential of more bits of information drip feeding that big battle between the democrats and republicans, even as we look towards next yea r‘s republicans, even as we look towards next year's presidential election. thank you, chris buckler. good morning from bangkok where in just a few hours' time, we expect the official results in thailand's first election since a military takeover five years ago. we are expecting preliminary results injusta we are expecting preliminary results injust a few we are expecting preliminary re

. >> immigrants are planning to fight attorney general william barr to release the entire special counsel report as a summary concludes president trump did not collude with russia. >> the 11:00 news on ktvu fox 2 news starts now. >>> attorney general william barr delivered a three page summary of the mueller investigation to capitol hill this afternoon. i am andre senior in for frank. >> i'm julie haener. president trump declared victory after the summary was released finding the trump campaign did not collude with russia to influence the 2016 election. also, mueller did not determine if the president obstructed justice leaving attorney general william barr to make that decision. mueller also said, while the president did not commit a crime, he is not exonerated, either. after reading the summary, democrats are now pushing for the full report to be released. lauren blanchard joins us from washington, d.c. to help break all this down. >> reporter: good evening, julie. president trump's legal team, as well as many of those who are close to the president, are saying they feel the mueller rep

attorney general william barr says he hopes to make key findings available.are saying there will be no further indictments recommended us media are saying there will be no further indictments recommended by mr mueller. here's nick bryant on how the process unfolded and what happens next. robert mueller is one of the most talked about men in washington. but ever since this former fbi director was appointed a special counsel almost two years ago, he has not made a single public comment about his high—sta kes investigation. donald j trump! he has been looking into whether or not there was collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin during the 2016 presidential race. did donald trump know the russians had hacked the democratic national committee and given e—mails to wikilea ks to release? russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e—mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. what happened at a meeting at trump tower injune 2016 between key campaign officials, including donald trump junior,

william barr has a lot of reading to do. we're told that the release of the principal conclusions of the investigation now expected within the next 24 hours. they would come in the form of a letter to congress. and a justice department official source telling fox news a short time ago that lawmakers will not be receiving that letter today. this as the attorney general is facing bipartisan calls to release the full report that has loomed so heavily over the nation 's capital and our politics, completely for all americans to see. welcome to a new hour of america's news headquarters many i'm eric shawn. arthel: i'm arthel neville. the battle will soon shift to cap toll hill. both sides set to fight over the report's findings, even as democrats and republicans demand that attorney general barr make the full report public. all of this unfolding as the president spends his weekend in mar-a-lago. eric:.eric: john roberts standy on the north lawn of the white house with reaction. peter doocy is live on capitol hill. the letter may n

ba william barr, attorney general and rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general. they decided with the evidence that was provided to them by robert mueller that the president did not obstruct justice. mueller basically punted on that. presented both sides of the issue and allowed them to decide. on the issue, though, of conspiracy, of coordinating with russia, the president has been exonerated by robert mueller. robert mueller found that he could not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities. joining us now, nbc news julia ainslie at the department of justice, host of nbc's "meet the press," chuck todd and kristen welker. julia, the top lines of the report are two-fold. one, there was no conspiracy. two, they were going to allow attorney general barr and rod rosenstein to determine whether there was obstruction. and both of those men determined no obstruction. >> that's right, katy. i want to take you through how fast they made that decision and how th

.>> reporter: attorney general william barr spent the weekend reviewing the special counsel's report before sending a summary to congress. tonight, we have a glimpse into the findings. attorney general william barr released a letter summarizing the findings of robert mueller's investigation. the four-page letter reads, the special counsel's investigation did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 united states presidential election. is letter also said that robert mueller looked into possible obstruction of justice charges against president trump. the direct quote reads, while the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. the special counsel deferred to the justice department to make that determination. william barr says he and the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein decided that the evidence is not sufficient to establish the president obstructed justice. >> it was a complete and total exoneration. it is a shame that our country had

flonase. >>> as we wait for attorney general william barr's decision on what to release and when on the mueller justice department probe, justice department officials are telling nbc news that barr is in his office today as expected. we'll be back at 6:00 p.m. with special coverage of the mueller report. up next, what all this could mean for the trump kids. s. [zara larsson - "wow"] ♪ ♪ baby i'm not even in a gown ♪ and the only thing u have to say is 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 ♪ ♪ and you never felt this type of emotion ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ >>> the mueller investigation sounds like it's coming to an end at some point soon. you've said before nothing concerns you. >> no. >> some of the president's former aides have now been charged and people are saying the walls are closing in. sitting here now, knowing it is almost over, are you concerned about anyone i

by mandate, robert mueller hands off the report to the attorney general william barr and then william barr decides whether or not he is going to release any of it to congress and whether or not he will release any of it to the public. there's a possibility as well, harris, that the white house will demand to see that report before he goes to congress. because if it contains any material that is subject to executive privilege, the white house counsel's office will likely want to review that material to see if it would waive executive privilege or if it would demand reduction. so there's a really good chance that it will go from mueller to william barr, to the white house counsel's office, then to congress. but if there isn't any executive privilege material it could just go to william barr and then to congress. but the president said he wants to see it, so in some way, shape, or form, it's likely to end up on his desk here at the white house. >> harris: one thing we saw yesterday with the michael cohen documents on the warrant that came out was that heavily-redacted portion. i mean, fu

i think william barr probably wants to see results in that.ome out for 90 days or longer. i think he needs to put together a team of top prosecutors to gather together the evidence they already have presented to a federal grand jury for potential indictment against everybody from james comey to andrew mccabe and peter struck, and you know what, maybe you ought to throw in the instigator and the whole thing which is john brennan. >> yes, that's exactly right. who can, is that purely with the attorney general to initiate that. can the president request or you have to leave it to the attorney general two i think it's up to the attorney general. >> it's up to william barr and the pressure on him. he is now the attorney general of the united states, he had to move forward, but it just as he said, it's the american people that have to build their faith in these institutions. the fbi and the department of justice, two of the greatest institutions in america, is the reason why they come here. what we have seen now and what the world has seen is this u

tonight, democratic leaders questioning the integrity of attorney general william barr after mueller n't reach a conclusion whether the president obstructed justice. but barr and deputy rod rosenstein decided the president should not be prosecuted for obstruction. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi writing in a statement, quote, given mr. barr's public record of bias against the special counsel inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and not in a position to make objective determinations about the report. >> the mueller report must be made public for a full accounting of what happened. and the attorney general of the united states must be required to testify before congress. >> reporter: house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler says he will require barr to come testify before congress. just because the mueller investigation i concluded doesn't mean the investigations are stopped on capitol hill wrapping up the russian interference in the election but the other committees are already investigating potential obstruction of justice, political corruption and abuses of power. democrats fr

that's the blunt assertion from attorney general william barr. also, barr is going to maybe as soon as this weekend brief mueller's principal conclusions to the leadership of the judiciary committees. we don't know what principal conclusions are. we don't know for sure that it's going to be this weekend, and we don't know how constrained the leadership of those committees will be from sharing that with other people including us the public, but three, separate and apart from that, barr is thinking about what beyond those principal conclusions can go to the congress, and to the public, and you get the sense from the way he wrote this that he thinks of that as one consideration, not two. right? you get the sense the way he wrote this that he thinks anything that goes to congress will almost instantly end up given to the public because members of congress, at least one member of congress will decide to leak it or release it properly. but he's -- he's thinking about that now. he's thinking about what congress can see. he's thinking about what the publi

and i don't know whether he anticipate that william barr would take the ball and run with it or barr snatched it from him so he could to continue the football analogy if congress wants to look at this for possible impeachment, he prejudged the evidence and put it out there this is the decision so as in football for instant replay to change the call on the field requires clear and convincing evidence. a much higher standard because now the presumption is that he's been cleared and so for congress to come up with a contrary opinion would appear to be have a very politically motivated unfair overturning of the original call. >> and the same logic would apply to any grand jury that was convened by any prosecutor after trump left office if there was a prevailing theory at the justice department that the president couldn't be prosecuted for crimes that he committed while he was a sitting president but he could potentially be prosecuted after he left office as a private citizen any grand jury considering any indictment would be prejudice by this decoloration, by the attorney general. >> i t

that's the blunt assertion from attorney general william barr. also, barr is going to maybe as soon as this weekend brief mueller's principal conclusions to the leadership of the judiciary committees. we don't know what principal conclusions are. we don't know for sure that it's going to be this weekend, and we don't know how constrained the leadership of those committees will be from sharing that with other people including us the public, but three, separate and apart from that, barr is thinking about what beyond those principal conclusions can go to the congress, and to the public, and you get the sense from the way he wrote this that he thinks of that as one consideration, not two. right? you get the sense the way he wrote this that he thinks anything that goes to congress will almost instantly end up given to the public because members of congress, at least one member of congress will decide to leak it or release it properly. but he's -- he's thinking about that now. he's thinking about what congress can see. he's thinking about what the publi

says william barr as far as i can tell. we don't know that robert mueller asked him to weigh in like this. >> the language of the sentence is interesting. 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, m

letter to senator lindsey graham and congressman jerry nadler this afternoon, attorney general william barr said that he hopes to be able to release the mueller report by mid-april, if not sooner. at mar-a-lago, president trump said he's putting his full faith and trust in barr to release everything he's able. >> i have great confidence in the attorney general. if that's what he likes to do, i have nothing to hide. this was a hoax, this was a witch hunt. >> in a surprise move, barr said he's been given full autonomy by the president writing, although the president would have the right to assert privilege over certain parts of the report, he has stated publicly that he intends to defer to me, accordingly there are no plans to submit the report to the white house for a privilege review. barr did warn that there would likely be reductions in whatever is sent to congress that he has to abide by rules on what can and cannot be released. democrats have complained that a political appointee is in charge of scrubbing the report. >> remember, this attorney general made clear that he was hostile to t

so it's very important to highlight right now with a bright spotlight william barr. don't know exactly what we're going to get and we should all be concerned about what he's up to over these necks couple days before we got a briefing or summary. >> in his confirmation hearings, he promised full transparency. but the question is, who defines transparency? >> yeah. >> because if it ends up being redacted statements, you don't know what he's redacted? >> reverend, let's be honest. the trump administration has lied and lied and lied again to the american public. i am a lifelong republican, trump is not a republican. and i don't care about party loyalty at this moment. i care about the truth and facts. today is very hard for me since yesterday at 5:00, it's been profoundly difficult for me because i have not yet seen the facts laid out in this investigative report. so it's very hard for me to speculate because until i see the facts, i don't know. i don't know what to say. so bill barr, great, fine, patriot. mueller, fine, patriot. but until we see the facts that are laid

. >> attorney general william barr issued a summary today. >> i'm andre senior the stateme mueller macller found there was no collusion in the 2016 election but mueller did not concluded the president obstructed justice. mueller also said while he did not find the president committed a crime, it does not exonerate him. after reading the summary, democrats continue to push for a full release of the report. here now is lauren blanchard at the justice department. >> reporter: president trump's legal team saying the mueller report has fully vindicated the president but others want william barr to testify believing there was bias in the findings. >> there was no collusion with russia, and none whatsoever. i know it was a complete and total exoneration. >> president trump is wrong. this report does not amount to a so-called total exoneration. special counsel robert mueller was clear that his report," does not exonerate the president." >> reporter: barr submitting his report to lawmakers in what the white house sees as a win for the president. mueller, finding no evidence of collusion between

our cameras capturing william barr leaving the justice department. shortly after delivering his summary of the mueller report to congress. it now sets up a battle tonight on the hill over how much of the mueller report will be seen by the american people. robert mueller spotted by the white house today going to church. his work 22 months after he started is over. tonight here our first look at what mueller found and what he didn't. pierre thomas leading us off. >> reporter: after months in the shadow's today's special counsel robert walking past the white house with his wife heading from church. the attorney general leaving his home in virginia heading to the justice department where he and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein sent a letter to congress. at about 3:30 p.m. today that letter went out. that letter says there were two main influences. one a social media disinformation campaign designed to sew discord. a plot to hack computers and the democratic national committee uzing intermediaries like wikileaks. barr writes the special counsel's in

but i think ultimately william barr is determined to make as much public as possible. about president trump and aware that william barr was appointed attorney general by president trump and therefore does that interfere potentially with what information comes out? i think for the moment, they are going to hold their nerve and see what they discover. 0f course, the key thing is, for them it is not going to be the. i keep on saying this because it is true. it is likely they will use congressional committees to find out more information and to push for more information and to push for more information and to push for more information to see if there is evidence of collusion, as it is being called time and time again and president trump will continue to say this is nothing but a witch—hunt and a huge waste of money. theresa may has written to mps tonight, spelling out the options now open to parliament and the government, as she comes under intense pressure to find a way forward on brexit. the uk was originally meant to leave the eu in a week's time, on march 29th. but aft

well, depends on what william barr thinks about long-standing practices and policies and how those can be applied to this question but i think it's also worth noting that bill barr says there is some other information in the mueller report. remember all that the special counsel regulations require is that mueller provide the attorney general with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions. in theory that could mean mueller's final report would be as bare bones as i prosecuted this list of people. here are the indictments that i brought because there was enough evidence to prosecute them and i did not prosecute anybody else because there was not enough evidence to prosecute anybody else. he could have just done that, you know. one sentence and a list of the indictments he filed. boom. done. a lot of people thought that is what mueller would do in terms of filing his final report. i mean, if he had done that, the bullet points briefing that bill barr says he'll provide as soon as this weekend would more or less be the whole report. he said he prosecuted the

william barr announcing the end of the robert mueller investigation in a one page statement friday evening. barr wrote to leaders of the house and senate judiciary committees that he is reviewing mueller's report and i may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. a justice department official tells cnn those conclusions are expected to be made public. a senior justice department official added there will be no further indictments from the special counsel. in a major victory, mueller ended the probe without interviewing trump. the president answered only written questions on russian collusion, none about obstruction of justice. in the hours before mueller officially ended his work, trump continued railing against the russia probe. >> there was no collusion, there was no obstruction. everybody knows it, it is all a big hoax. i call it the witch hunt. it is a big hoax. >> friday, sarah sanders tweeted a muted response. the next steps are up to attorney general barr and look forward to the process taking its course. the white house

attorney general william barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein were both in the office reviewingueller's findings. barr telling lawmakers he could release the prance pincipal conclusions as early as this week. justice department officials say one thing is clear. there will be no more indictments related to the russia probe. the white house seizing on that as a victory. president trump attending a republican fund-raiser friday seated next to lindsey graham who went on the attack against the other candidate in the 2016 election, hillary clinton, saying, quote, we're going to make sure both campaigns are looked at, prompting chants of "lock her up" from other attendees. the president was flanked with his legal team bringing along emet flood who is responsible for the response to the russia investigation. just hours before the announcement mueller was finished -- >> there was no collusion, no obstruction. it's all a big hoax. i call it the witch hunt. >> reporter: -- president trump continued his attacks on the investigation telling fox business, americans will not accept a negative

attorney general william barr will reveal and if he will try to bury the report. hive." you say if barr and mueller follow doj restrictions, trump might come out unblemished. how likely after the long investigation the president comes out unscathed? >> you look at doj guidelines and what they say is, you know, one, you can't indict a sitting president. also, you can't disparage publicly an individual who maybe was part of an investigation, but wasn't ultimately charged. i think one of the questions is right now is what behavior robert mueller looked at of the president's. what he found. whether we will see that, you know, despite the really massive public interest in it. the question is will we be able to see, you know, how mueller reached that conclusion? i think there is a question as to what rises to criminality over what is constitutional. >> barr said he will announce to congress this weekend. how hard a fight would that be? >> i think one of the interesting things about what barr said during the confirmation hearings is he stressed the idea of a confidential