you're william barr tonight. you're planning on one or two or multiple versions of different reports, mueller's report being released minus everything you want taken out of it. heading into that bold plan for tomorrow morning, you now know that at least one federal district court judge in washington, d.c. is planning on checking your work soon. and that judge is already expressing concerns in open court about how you are handling this matter and why he might need to correct for it. this was judge walton in open court yesterday afternoon. we just got the cratranscript y. ready? quote, obviously, the judge says, there is real concern whether there will be full transparency. and i hate to say it, but unfortunately the attorney general has created an environment that i think is going cause a significant portion of the american people to be concerned about whether there is transparency. and that puts the court obviously in a very difficult situation. but i have dealt with difficult situations before, and, you know, i'

put yourself in william barr's shoes right now. if you are newly appointed attorney general william barr and tonight you are planning on a big day tomorrow, you are planning on making yet another william barr public declaration of what you say mueller found and you're planning on doing that tomorrow without anybody being allowed to read what mueller found and without mueller being allowed to explain himself what he found and without mueller or anyone on his team being available to answer questions about what they found, no, you are planning on you handling all of that in your own terms and nobody being able to check you against the real record. you're william barr tonight, you're planning on one or two or multiple different versions of mueller's report being released minus everything you want taken out of it. heading into that bold plan for tomorrow morning, you now know that at least one federal district court judge in washington, d.c. is planning on checking your work soon, and that judge is already expressing concerns in open co

attorney general william barr knows that. is this a case of giving him a little thing he wants while he resists his much worse demands? or does this justice department letter threatening the oscars show us there is absolutely nothing william barr won't do for donald trump. there is no order too small or petty. no order from donald trump that william barr thinks is beneath him. is that what this means? donald trump has always said he wanted roy cohn as his attorney general and he couldn't because roy cohn died in 1986 and before he died, he was convuicted of crimes and donald trump loved him because he would do anything for donald trump, anything. does he finally have his roy cohn again? is that what this letter tells us about the attorney general of the the united states? we don't know yet. but it doesn't tell us anything good or decent or honorable or professional about the attorney general of the united states. that's tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. >> and president trump shifts h

barr. yeah, that guy. the same william p. barr who's the newly appointed attorney general under president trump. when he was the assistant attorney general under george h.w. bush, when he was running the office of legal counsel at the justice department he wrote and then tried to keep secret a very controversial legal opinion on this very controversial issue. i mean, the brand new poppy bush administration was contending with wave after wave of controversy over this whole issue of panama. this was one of the big waves in that controversy. a legal opinion which came to light a week after this failed coup, right? a legal opinion they were trying to keep secret, which seemed to imply that the u.s. now believed the fbi could send in its agents to remove a foreign leader from power anywhere in the world under our own government's say so without consulting any foreign government about the fact they were going to do this. i mean, it was one thing for the president to be, you know, calling for up risings in other countries, promising

william barr neglected to say that. for those who are watching, if it is enough that the president was not indicted and carted away, then it is fine. if we expect something more from our elected officials rather than trying to obstruct justice, this is problematic. david: finally, if this is not the end, is at the beginning of the end? it appears robert mueller may testify. william barr will testify. we have a 2020 presidential election. there'll be a lot of talk. as a matter of process, to see any further prosecutions coming out of this? jeffrey: as a criminal matter i think it is over. no more indictments unless there are other investigations with u.s. attorney's office similar to the cohen case. as a political matter, this has led. it depends on how much the democrats want to hone in on it. mr. barr will testify, mr. mueller will testify. we will learn some of the facts. i get the headlines. no indictment. the facts, the first 200 pages of this report go to the fact that the russians were trying to influence our elec

you almost didn't notice william barr. what else comes from the report? >> a lot of folks were joking how much was going to be read acted. look at this meme from a physicist, that is what i call a sharp image of a black hole. another person posted this meme that showed the lyrics to never going to give you up. a lot of funny stuff. most of it was unreadable so you can read almost the whole thing. jillian: only 36 pages were read acted. rob: we get the just. thanks so much. 24 minutes after the hour. democrats circling the wagons vowing to get to the truth by calling on special counsel robert mueller to testify before congress. >> the intelligence committee has requested that mueller come and testify. i anticipate mueller will testify in the next couple weeks. jillian: our next guest says mueller's 400 page report is enough and this is gone too far, we are coming right back. ♪ the lexus es. every curve, every innovation, every feeling. a product of mastery. lease the 2019 es 350 for $389 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. >>

that same day that william barr wins in court? no one will lose health insurance because trump will rush through a lee rao replacement that will take effect the same day? that was an offensive trumpian answer he gave. and today, it was about the wall. the attorney general of the united states once again became a trump cheerleader in a congressional hearing and this time, it was about building the wall. >> we have to stop the flow of drugs from mexico or make a much bigger dent in it. that's one of the reasons that i do think that a wall a barrier system across the southern border is an important part of that. >> every expert on the subject reports that most of the illegal drugs that come into this country from mexico come through the legal ports of entry. they are smuggled through in trucks and other vehicles coming through the legal ports of entry but the question wasn't even about that. the question was about the opioid crisis in america. that's what the attorney general was asked about. that's why he wants a wall. his answer wa

it may also be part of the heat that attorney general william barr appears to be feeling. at least as evidenced by the anonymous sources popping up in the news, bearing blind quotes about how totally unreasonable william barr's decisions have been despite visible evidence to the contrary. william barr will be testifying an open senate in the session on wednesday and then on thursday, over the weekend, i bet you dollars to donuts we'll get more blind quotes from anonymous officials talking about really, if you think about it, how reasonable william barr really has been in this whole process despite what you might have heard and actually, really, if you think about it, he's kind of a hero of the story. honestly though, given barr's performance, when it comes to handling mueller's findings thus far in this week since we've been able to see him, why is congress bothering to hear from him at all? haven't we sort of heard from william barr and got a sense from where he's come from and how he fits into this process? i'd be happy to just stick with anonymous officials describing w

under this purported reasoning from attorney general william barr. as spelled out in the "washington post," that's fine. you're good. as long as ultimately that bank robber still got caught at some point, you're good. your obstruction effort, you tried but it didn't work. which means you're fine. now, do not try this at home. this is not how the law actually works, but this is the way that william barr, or rather, people familiar with the thinking that led to the conclusions of william barr, that's how they are explaining how he arrived at this idea that president trump didn't commit the crime of obstruction of justice based on robert mueller plainly explaining exactly that the president committed the crime of obstruction of justice. so why is this in the "washington post" now? why has this purported justification that trump committed a crime here, which just appeared in the "post" and regardless of what you think about the quality of the reasoning being explained here and the quality of the lawyering that barr is trying to have ascribed to him, why

-- ed: william barr. brian: obviously democrats are on their heels because they don't like this 9:30 preference. schumer said this hand picked attorney general meaning bill barr, has thrown out credibility. we see some of the negativity there. they say this. after seeing the preference and knowing the report is going to come out and be lightly redacted. they have called for bob mueller to come in and testify. i got news for you, they are not -- the republicans are not going to push back. ed: i agree with you and i agree with the democrats. bob mueller should testify and ask him whatever they want. look, much of what is and we haven't seen it redacted. the law requires the attorney general to redact. iif you redact more than the law requires, he is going to lose some credibility. if he redacts less than what the law requires, is he complying with, excuse me the clip that you just ran at his confirmation hearing where he said is he going to err on the side of transparency. there is a tremendous desire on th

what did we learn from william barr we didn't already know? kevin: we are awaiting word from president trump later this hour. he will be in the same room as reporters when he is set to attend an event with wounded warriors, so we could be hearing first response from the president himself later this hour. the president has tweeted out, "game over," with a meme referencing the popular "game of thrones." it seems like the white house is in a celebratory mood as they .ry to turn the page on this attorney general william barr saying he himself, as well as the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, ultimately disagreed with robert mueller on what they found. in that four-page memo, they said there was not the intent of obstruction of justice, which ultimately is why they did not decide to bring charges against the president. , but theys in recess will receive a less redacted version of the report in less than an hour. from there, attorney general william barr says he will post publicly that report from the farm of justice website -- from the depart

barr summary of the mueller report and the next chapter, the redacted william barr version of the mueller report. >> that's right. so there's a remarkable episode that is very similar to today. 199, william barr had actually issued or written an opinion for the justice department highly controversy. it looked like it paved the way for the united states to forcibly abduct the leader of panama. so congress wanted the full opinion and barr said you can't have the full opinion but i'll give you a summary of its principal conclusions which is the same language he used for the mueller report. he's gub a certainly. it ends up he gives a 13-page report and then only three years later do we actually find the full opinion and it turns out that he did not give congress the principal conclusions. he left some major conclusions out. so it -- the final conclusion that i draw from that episode is that it was kind of an act of duplicity towards congress and so how much we can trust him today to not repeat that kind of behavior is up in the air. i think it's a concern. >> and ron klain, i was thinking as

william barr is donald trump's re-election campaign attorney general. now, that could be just a coincidence of the calendar that william barr was made attorney general at the same time that the president started running for re-election. and will be running for re-election throughout william barr's service as attorney general. that could be a coincidence or it could be that william barr is as determined to get donald trump re-elected as president as steve bannon was determined to get donald trump elected in the first place. when you look at this week in the president's re-election campaign, no one has done more for the president's re-election campaign than william barr. he told the house committee that if donald trump and william barr are successful in destroying the affordable care act in court then the president will magically instantly on that same day replace obamacare with a new law that will instantly pass congress and take care of 20 million people who had lose health insurance if william barr successfully takes away from them in court but it will

william barr wasn't going to let them do that. lou: this makes you feel very authoritative holding up this break of nonsense. redacted -- it doesn't even invite curiosity pages it is an attack on a president with a specific partisan purpose and on the part of the radical dimms to unseat a duly elected president. they stole an election! midterm election. on the basis of -- this garbage and perpetuating a special counsel who found nothing, nothing! zero. >> and as you know, lou, you may recall we talked about this last week. i never thought there should have been a mueller report because we suspected, this is what the goal was peer to have the justice department read hundreds of pages, criticized the president for exercising his responsibility as president. this president is attacked in this report for defending himself. again! lou: false charges. and an absolute conspiracy to overthrow the government of the united states. >> and to criticize the justice department and the fbi for abuse of power? and the suggestion for mueller is th

i have known william barr all the way back to the early 1990s and this was not the william barr were used to know. it was a man who was in essence a public relations adviser to the president or as some have said acting as defence counsel for the president. at times i thought i was listening to a rudy giuliani without a new york accent. what about this question about president trump said this in his remarks on camera in response to the report being published in which he obviously said game over, but he said no president should have too enjoyed this again. do you think there will be some relu cta nce do you think there will be some reluctance in future to appoint special prosecutions because of the way this has developed. it has had a huge distracting effect on the trump presidency. it has about you go back to nixon or to clinton, they had independent councils who were even more distracting and went right to the heart of their presidencies and of course nixon had to resign and clinton was impeached by the house but not convicted by the senate, so to say that this is unique is wrong. th

. —— william barr. he is a controversial figure, today. —— william barr. he is a controversialfigure, isn't he, to be delivering this particular press conference? but we have already heard from donald trump, who says basically, i am clear. we have been hearing from donald trump about this investigation for a very long time, side i don't like anybody will be surprised by that. the issue i think for the attorney general is that he was appointed by the president, so it makes it, the optics of that, they are very difficult, despite the fa ct they are very difficult, despite the fact that this investigation was obscene, and i think the leak had a very high level of independence, it was seen as very high level of independence, it was seen as being, mueller was seen asa was seen as being, mueller was seen as a man of integrity, and a very serious investigation is that it risks being seen as very political in the uncovering and the public vetting of that report. the white house obviously will be going throu

barr, not just william barr looking at this activity. michael horwitz who is as straight and narrow is you want, former us attorney lindsey graham, i assure you is going to look at -- there's nothing wrong with asking. we giving critical powers to law enforcement, what is wrong with asking, what is the factual predicate for investigating a presidential campaign, what surveillance techniques did you use and that is before you get to the fisa process. of course you want to know if you can spy on an american or do surveillance on an american absent sufficient facts or predicate but even before that, to launch a counterintelligence investigation by somebody with a level of historic animus that peter stzrok had, wiser want to ask out of this begin? there sufficient facts i think it will be the first to tell you, he signaled that today, he's not saying spying or surveillance was inappropriate. he doesn't know that yet. what he's saying is we are going to find out and that is an imminently reasonable position. >> folks across the partisan divid

>> i find william barr's behavior unconscionable. he is defending the president. >> then we see a redaction. i don't have x-ray vision. i can't see through black ink. >> william barr, as political operatives do come put a spin on this that was favorable to the president. rob: the mainstream media melting down over the release of the bob mueller report. jillian: can they regain the people trust? rob: visiting fellow with the independent women's form and beverly holberg. one of the biggest things, the prerelease press conference, they said william barr was talking about the president like he was his own client rather than being attorney general. >> let's not forget this is somebody the president has nominated. any president will nominate the agn this is someone that works for the bush administration. i don't think we can say he has always been in the trump camp and let's not forget the other side as well. he said from the beginning that he was going to give an unredacted version to congress and said that mueller should testify so every

william barr goes to capitol hill, got some blowback and gave us a lot of information. we will talk about how this investigation got started and what we will see in the mueller report and senator josh holly on capitol hill and what is going on with homeland security and kellyanne conway will reflect on that in san antonio to find out what is going on towards the border and devon nunez will be here, bringing in a major lawsuit. and a small office, i have a problem throwing things out. this is spring cleaning week. the last 14 hours they have been cleaning my office. you will see the transformation. is it possible to get rid of that clutter? i was getting text messages at 9:00 that they were still working on this. i've not seen it yet but i have seen the office. the way you can clean your house, the way you can clean your office, we will give you some clues and try to organize my life. it is impossible to organize my life. jillian: another person's office be worse than mine? rob: how high maintenance are you if you can't clean your own office? another diva news anchor. ro

we expect attorney william barr to address that. we have a moment to go to moderator of "meet the press." we know the legal conclusions, we don't know what the politics will be once the american people see what underlies those conclusions, what is the evidence? >> reporter: well, look, politically, let's be frank here. the way this has been rolled out has been very helpful to the president. right? regardless, we don't know the tone of the report. we don't have yet to read a single complete sentence. but if essence, he's got an three-and-a-half week head start right between barr's summary of principles conclusions, testimony, where democrats were able to ask questions about knowledge of what was in the report. things like this so politically you can argue the president and bill bar very neutered the greatest impact with this report. >> that said you know let's see the details here. is the issue of collusion an conspiracy, did he not bring charges because it was a lot of russians but not the russian government. it was confusing, like

the thing about william barr. storied career, history. lots of conversation about his commitment to the institution of justice. at the same time that memo othat he wrote -- >> the unsolicited memo about the mueller investigation >> and the fact that he took what was a shockingly broad view of both executive power, some legal scholars were quite astounded by and quite an over statement. and even unhis four-page summary letter, he adds that not proving the underlying crime, in this case the conspiracy is why there can't be obstruction. >> every lawyer i've spoken to has told me that's not true. ib can obstruct a case i have nothing to do with. >> of course you can.

attorney general william barr has said publicly he believes the trump campaign was spied on. he doesn't know if it was legal or illegal but wants to find out. same goes for the chair of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham and the doj inspector general michael horowitz looking into the genesis of the trump campaign being investigated including to what extent the fbi used the unverified steel dossier to surveillance of the trump campaign but we should note christopher steele is declining to meet with the inspector general saying it would be improper for former british intelligent for the doj investigation. this is the same british spy who admitted the dossier was unverified but provided to the fbi. on the 2020 democratic presidential trail collusion appears to be getting the heat but obstruction front and center. >> on the issue of obstruction of justice, from what i have read so far it seems very clear that that was the president's attempt. >> president on many occasions attempted to obstruct justice. >> carson and presidential candidate eric swalwell said this was c

william barr is coming on may 2. so this story is far from over. the mueller report occupies the top three spots on the amazon bestseller list. so there is interest out there in what is actually in the report, but there is a lot to go and there is also, i should mention, 14 referrals that were made by the mueller team to there isisdictions, so a lot more -- and we don't know what most of that is. thet of black-out stuff in report. we only know two of the 14. michael cohen and gregory craig, who are in legal trouble. the others, we don't know. over time, we will find out. host: we learned august 14 is the week for greg craig's trial. the mueller report is available on our homepage at c-span.org. william barr will be on capitol hill and we will have live coverage of the house and senate hearings when they take place and also robert mueller. two other points. in the sunday opinion section of the washington post, "trump is lucky, putin is luckier," describing the president as a survivor. going back to the front page story of the washington post, robert

rob: democrats fuming after a second hearing with william barr and what he said. jillian: we are live with the latest. >> as they wrap it up.

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i want to test william barr's independence and credibility. is he willing to give a direct accurate answer, no, this report does not exonerate the president even if it might upset the president. william barr ought to not hide behind the report speaks for itself. he is the one going behind that podium, giving us the image of transparency, he has the report not us in the public. we will be able to tell early on is this real transparency or is this just a show. >> what about number two, national security? how so? >> i would ask the president, look, as the nation's chief law enforcement officer do you have any security concerns about the contacts between donald trump and the russians? we know that robert mueller and william barr have concluded there is not sufficient evidence to prove a criminal conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt, that is the highest legal standard we have in our system, but it does not mean that nothing happened. we know the trump power meeting happened, we know there were all these contacts. i would ask william barr as the chi

it may be that attorney general william barr is just, you know, he is curious. he is a curious guy. he wants to ask questions. he is recently appointed. he has only been there seven weeks. you take a new job. you want to be thorough, right? i'm not suggesting any rules were violated, but spying on a political campaign, that would be a huge deal. did spying happen? ah, well, i mean, you know, did anything ever come of that whole year plus long effort by the president to say that maybe the fbi investigation into russian interference in the elections was just one big hoax? it was just made up. whatever happened to that claim. are we still trying to say that with obama tapping his wires and all that? are we still saying that? is that still the line we're working? just curious. should we chase that down? i mean, when the attorney general of the united states goes before congress and says there was spying on the trump campaign, that's not a dog whistle to the president and his allies about the thoroughly debunked conspiracy theories about robert mueller and spying and president obama havi

attorney general william barr will release the long-awaited document. the main takeaways for the market. earnings bonanza. s&p delivering 8% sales and 15% earnings growth. numbers from oil players to consumer sales. and german manufacturing pmi disappointing, not enough to counteract the gloom. david: welcome to "bloomberg daybreak." lots of earnings this morning. let's start with blackstone. two things here. assets under management came in under $512 billion, substantially more than thought. they had a big miss in distributive income, but that could be a matter of timing. you can see the stock in premarket has shot up about 3%. alix: in converting -- and converting. david: converting because of the tax code change. they reduced the corporate tax rate in means they can be included in indexes now. alix: at 8:00 a.m. we will be interviewing steve schwarzman, blackstone chairman and ceo. also take a look at philip morris. that stock down by about 8/10 of 1%. earnings came in line with estimates. revenue was a slight beat. for this guy, it is going to be wh

chuck schumer asks is william barr a trustworthy man. schumer's response says i'll wait until i see it referencing the mueller report. you release it or you don't. he said he's going to determine whether he trusted him after the release of the report. he said barr has not conducted in a way that gives trust. what does that mean? >> playing politics, to be honest. what he believes it or not, standing by what he previously said. it's a game of politics as usual. >> if loretta lynch had produced a four-page summary of a 350 page report on president obama and loretta lynch turned over a four-page summary that the special prosecutor had not looked at and said he didn't come to conclusions but i did, would you be sitting here -- >> wrap it up, guys. >> if we sat around two years holding up mueller as the gold standard and he ruled in, yeah, i would. >> he didn't rule in. if we see it, everybody can go home. >> thank you. president trump unloading on democrats over the crisis at the southern border. what does ohio republican and member of the s

team. >> it has been a rough couple of weeks for william barr. he has gotten really poor grades from a lot of people who want to see the report and feel that there is an obligation that he embraced to a certain extent iphis confirmation hearings. what is the mood and the moral at the justice department? >> reporter: i do think it puts a lot more pressure on the report that we get later this week because william barr is going to have to prove that he is not an attorney general for this president but an attorney general for this country. so the amount of information he includes specifically on the obstruction piece will be key. obstruction is an area that wooewe think won't have as much classified material. and so they expect that he will have to get more information to explain this decision. again, a decision he didn't have to make to exonerate the president on obstruction even when rhoobert mueller did not d that. as far as the mood inside, i think there is a presumption to trust william barr. he is someone who had a lot of experience and felt ca

now lead -- william barr now leadi leading. we'll find out what daily caller christopher bedford thinks of this. >> big problems for big tech. republican senator taking social media executives to task for shadow banning, more conservative voices, google the primary focus. diamond and silk. once deemed unsafe by facebook they the know the power will silicon valley they will join us. >> border apprehension rising last month president said as many as a million illegal immigrants would likely be apprehended this year, according to princeton policy advise oar t has raise risen to highway higher than a month ago. >> last year of the clinton administration. despite surge and inability of border patrol to handle crisis there are those who still' illegal immigration to go on, unimpeded. >> if we don't get this right, in 20 or 30 years, united states will be begging for immigrants to come and make a vibrant workforce. >> many jobs that require hard working and sweating away in august in texas, americans won't want to do them, but others

today was attorney general william barr's first public appearance since he made that very, very public, very controversial, very puzzling, declaration. first time since then. first time since he got the mueller report. first time since he's done all this stuff that he's done with the mueller report. finally, today, with him appearing in public, with him appearing in congress, we knew we would get some explanation from him as to why he declared that the president definitely didn't commit a crime. we'd finally get some explanation from him as to what basis he used to -- on what basis he concluded that the president didn't commit a crime. also presumably we'd get some explanation from him as to why he thought it was his job to proclaim that the president didn't commit any crime. at least you'd think we would have gotten that today in his first appearance since the mueller report was handed into him and he stuffed it deep into a desk drawer somewhere. you'd think we'd get answers to all of those questions, but it turns out nobody asked him at his appearance today in congress. nobody asked

everybody wants to blame william barr. the democrat safety has not come out and stated enough. they want to say william barr , whyedacted and alternate does robert mueller not come out in self -- himself and state how he feels and how it was presented? host: i can only say that jerry nadler today said he would be toling for robert mueller testify in front of his committee. also attorney general barr will be testifying may 1 and may 2 on capitol hill in front of the senate judiciary committee led by lindsey graham and the house judiciary by jerrold nadler. randy is in north carolina, how are you? we are listening. caller: i have not read the report with this is a witchhunt. this president cares about this country. he has done nothing but fight for this country. they have been trying to bury since poor hilary didn't win the election. cannot handle the truth that he did not have collusion with russia. they just keep wanting to investigate and hinder. the democratic party has done nothing in the first 100 days of office except want to investigate. all they should do is use their ta

william barr said he had no objection to mueller testifying to answer these questions. that's one thing. secondly, why didn't the special counsel insist on interviewing the president? you see what they say in here at they thought they had enough based on his public statements and the statements of other people around the president. they decided it was near the end of the investigation and there was no point in dragging it out. finally, on this point that you two have talked about here -- frankly, jay brought it up. this up usual statent by a prosecutor that they didn't exonerate the president. many former prosecutors have said that's an odd thior a prosecutor to say. they either bring charges or they don't. >> let me go back to the notion of why they decided not to pursue the interview with the president.yo said they had what they need. did you get the sense they felt the clock was running out, that they simply couldn't keep this investigation alive any longer? in a word, yes. >> that's interesting. there wasn't any technical reason that they couldn't keep going. perhap

william barr paid potential and robert mueller, we do not know. democrats seem to want that. thank you for joining us for these four hours. harris faulkner, "outnumbered overtime" starts now. >> harris: and we pick up the coverage and i with new reaction as the justice department has released the rejected mueller report. giving us new insight into the two year long russia investigation. 675 days, to be exact. we go "outnumbered overtime" now. i'm harris faulkner. a short time ago the justice department delivered the 400-plus page rejected report to count down my congress and people. it is online. as we dig through this report we are learning more about how and why the special counsel found no evidence of trump campaign collusion with russia. and why special counsel mueller felt he could not fully exonerate the president over potential obstruction of justice. here is attorney general william barr, from earlier, speaking before the release of that rejected report on the question of obstruction. >> after carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report, an

william barr doesn't plan to let the mueller report speak for itself. he'll hold a news conference tomorrow morning as his redacted version is released. >>> trump's spin. joust hours before the big mueller report revealed, the president is speaking out tonight in a new round of interviews. will he make a formal statement or even take questions once the report is public? >>> white house consultant. there's a new report out that justice department officials have had numerous conversations with white house lawyers about the special counsel's conclusions in recent days. how much did they reveal to the president's team? >>> two reports. the justice department reveals that some members of congress will get to see a less redacted version of the mueller report than the one that's made public. will that satisfy democrats demanding to see everything. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're many t you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following a lot of brea

let's stick with william barr. oft within the last couple hours, the ranking member on the house judiciary committee, congressman doug collins, a republican, writing to the chairman, a democrat from new york, saying i write encouraging you to invite special counsel robert mueller to testify before our committee. and foreek transparency the american public to learn the full car doors -- the full contours of the special counsel investigation, public testimony from mueller himself is undoubtedly the best way to accomplish this goal. my question to you -- do we need to hear from robert mueller? do we need this release sooner than later to restore that trust in this entire process? preet: i will answer yes to all of your questions. i've not seen that quote. it just happened in the last little while. i am imagining that is an invitation to good to pass up on the part of the chairman jerry nadler. , my respect to the timing thought is absolutely the fullest version of the mueller report that can be made public, the better

with william barr is a no-show the subpoena will issue the negotiation will unfold. we have to stay tuned. it is a process. shannon: that is the theme we continue to hear from the gop side of the argument, it is disrespectful to have a cabinet secretary being interrogated. >> two quick points. there is president in whitewater, watergate. i think it is a better way to go about questioning but the big point this is missing, this is not just william barr and the house judiciary. this is the decision that was the most consequential of the pro-where william barr at the end of the day did countermand mueller. it is important for the american people to find out about that. that is one reason why it shouldn't be hostage to sort of political schoolyard james. shannon: we will see wednesday and maybe thursday and get more interest from the attorney general. thank you for being with us. kim fox's a pain in the hot seat to explain why she dropped 16 felony accounts against jussie smollett and he could he be forced to testify? new details next. >> >> donald trump and andrew cuomo

the weird vagueness with which william barr has been describing mueller's findings came to sort of its absurd apex on friday night when barr released yet another statement, a third statement in a week about mueller's findings. in that third friday night letter, barr oddly insisted that nothing he had said about mueller's findings thus far should be described as a summary of mueller's findings. he wants it to be known that he is definitely not summarizing what mueller said. although in plain english, it is hard to understand what exactly he's been saying about mueller's report when he has put out what appeared to be a summary of mueller's principle conclusions. in any case, the continued effort by attorney general william barr to hold back the mueller report itself is running into stiff resistance. six committee chairmen in the house of representatives set tomorrow, tuesday, as the deadline for barr to hand over an unredacted copy of mueller's report to congress. the attorney general does not seem intended to meet that deadline, but we shall see. if he misses the deadline, jerry nadler