JUDY WOODRUFF: We return
now to our lead story.

Special counsel Robert Mueller
has concluded his investigation
and turned over a report

to Attorney General
William Barr.

To help us understand what's
next, I'm joined by NPR's
Justice correspondent,
Carrie Johnson.

Carrie, so we know, we have
just learned within the last
couple of hours that this report

- - this investigation
has finished, and the
report's been turned over
to the Justice Department.

What happens right now?

Do we -- when do we find
out what's in the report?

CARRIE JOHNSON, NPR: Well, we
could find out something about
the key conclusions by the

special counsel as
early as this weekend.

That's according to the attorney
general, Bill Barr, in a
letter he sent to key members

of the House and Senate
Judiciary Committees.

The Justice Department says
the public may find out around
the same time, as early as

this weekend, some of
the key conclusions.

As for the meat and potatoes
of this report, which I'm told
is comprehensive, we may find

out more about that after
a longer deliberation
by the attorney general
special counsel, Mueller,

and the deputy attorney
general, Rod Rosenstein.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Carrie, do
we have a sense of how many
pages, how big a document this

report is?

CARRIE JOHNSON: I pressed
the Justice Department
this afternoon about
how much detail this

report gets into.

All they'd say at this
point is that it is a
comprehensive report.

A Justice Department source
says the special counsel is
not recommending any additional

indictments, Judy, although we
do know some of his work, some
of the offshoots, have been

farmed out to prosecutors in
New York, Virginia, Washington,
D.C., and DOJ headquarters as

well.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And , Carrie,
when we spoke a short time
ago with the chairman of the

House of Representatives
Intelligence Committee,
Adam Schiff, he pointed out
that these recommendations,

whatever they may be in this
report, that this is separate
from any counterintelligence

work that was being done.

What do you think
that may tell us?

What do your sources tell
us that may mean about this
-- these final conclusions?

CARRIE JOHNSON: Well, it depends
on how Robert Mueller has
decided to write this report and

how the attorney general
wants to interpret it.

Judy, I don't expect we're
ever going to see some of the
sensitive material that's secret

that goes to sources and
methods of American intelligence
capacities that Adam Schiff may

be able to see in Congress.

The public may never
get to see that.

But the open question right
now is whether the Justice
Department will decide to tell

Congress and the American
people a little bit more about
why Robert Mueller decided

not to charge certain people.

That's been an ongoing source
of controversy ever since the
former FBI director, Jim Comey,

decided not to charge Hillary
Clinton with any wrongdoing,
but said a lot of bad things

about her.

The open question now is whether
this Justice Department will
make a different choice in

this investigation.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And, as
the attorney general's
letter to Congress said,
this report explains

the prosecution or
declination decisions, meaning
declining to prosecute.

Just quickly, Carrie,
what about the White House
being notified about this?

What's the protocol at this
point in terms of sharing it
with Congress, sharing it with

the White House?

CARRIE JOHNSON: I'm told from
the Justice Department that
they did place a call to the

White House Counsel's Office
around 4:45 this afternoon to
notify them the report was in.

The White House doesn't have
the contents of this report,
only the notification at this

time.

And, right now, the White House
is deferring all questions
and substance to the Justice

Department, which, basically,
is the way it should be and
the way that investigations

like this are run.

JUDY WOODRUFF: So, we don't
know when and if the White
House -- assume at some point

they will be briefed,
but we don't know when.

Well, we are certainly waiting.

And I...

CARRIE JOHNSON: We
expect that, Judy, yes.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes.

And I know you are waiting.

And I'm guessing you're going
to be camping out at the
Justice Department this weekend.

Carrie Johnson with
NPR, we thank you.

CARRIE JOHNSON: Thank you.