WEBVTT 00:01.200 --> 00:03.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: We return now to our lead story. 00:03.166 --> 00:07.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation and turned over a report 00:07.333 --> 00:09.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to Attorney General William Barr. 00:09.733 --> 00:14.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% To help us understand what's next, I'm joined by NPR's Justice correspondent, Carrie Johnson. 00:16.566 --> 00:19.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Carrie, so we know, we have just learned within the last couple of hours that this report 00:19.866 --> 00:24.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% - - this investigation has finished, and the report's been turned over to the Justice Department. 00:26.800 --> 00:28.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% What happens right now? 00:28.300 --> 00:31.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Do we -- when do we find out what's in the report? 00:31.066 --> 00:36.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% CARRIE JOHNSON, NPR: Well, we could find out something about the key conclusions by the 00:37.233 --> 00:40.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% special counsel as early as this weekend. 00:40.166 --> 00:44.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% That's according to the attorney general, Bill Barr, in a letter he sent to key members 00:44.800 --> 00:47.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. 00:47.266 --> 00:51.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The Justice Department says the public may find out around the same time, as early as 00:51.933 --> 00:54.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% this weekend, some of the key conclusions. 00:54.900 --> 00:59.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% As for the meat and potatoes of this report, which I'm told is comprehensive, we may find 01:02.500 --> 01:05.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% out more about that after a longer deliberation by the attorney general special counsel, Mueller, 01:06.700 --> 01:08.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. 01:08.733 --> 01:13.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Carrie, do we have a sense of how many pages, how big a document this 01:14.700 --> 01:17.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% report is? 01:17.166 --> 01:20.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CARRIE JOHNSON: I pressed the Justice Department this afternoon about how much detail this 01:21.800 --> 01:23.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% report gets into. 01:23.533 --> 01:27.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% All they'd say at this point is that it is a comprehensive report. 01:27.233 --> 01:32.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% A Justice Department source says the special counsel is not recommending any additional 01:34.266 --> 01:36.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% indictments, Judy, although we do know some of his work, some of the offshoots, have been 01:36.666 --> 01:41.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% farmed out to prosecutors in New York, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and DOJ headquarters as 01:42.166 --> 01:44.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% well. 01:44.300 --> 01:46.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And , Carrie, when we spoke a short time ago with the chairman of the 01:46.933 --> 01:50.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, he pointed out that these recommendations, 01:52.833 --> 01:57.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% whatever they may be in this report, that this is separate from any counterintelligence 01:58.700 --> 02:01.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% work that was being done. 02:01.100 --> 02:03.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% What do you think that may tell us? 02:03.200 --> 02:07.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% What do your sources tell us that may mean about this -- these final conclusions? 02:07.133 --> 02:12.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% CARRIE JOHNSON: Well, it depends on how Robert Mueller has decided to write this report and 02:13.300 --> 02:15.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% how the attorney general wants to interpret it. 02:15.300 --> 02:20.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Judy, I don't expect we're ever going to see some of the sensitive material that's secret 02:22.100 --> 02:26.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that goes to sources and methods of American intelligence capacities that Adam Schiff may 02:26.866 --> 02:28.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% be able to see in Congress. 02:28.066 --> 02:30.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The public may never get to see that. 02:30.100 --> 02:34.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But the open question right now is whether the Justice Department will decide to tell 02:34.066 --> 02:39.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Congress and the American people a little bit more about why Robert Mueller decided 02:39.000 --> 02:41.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% not to charge certain people. 02:41.066 --> 02:46.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% That's been an ongoing source of controversy ever since the former FBI director, Jim Comey, 02:48.066 --> 02:50.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% decided not to charge Hillary Clinton with any wrongdoing, but said a lot of bad things 02:50.033 --> 02:52.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% about her. 02:52.033 --> 02:55.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The open question now is whether this Justice Department will make a different choice in 02:55.200 --> 02:57.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% this investigation. 02:57.300 --> 03:01.066 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: And, as the attorney general's letter to Congress said, this report explains 03:01.066 --> 03:06.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the prosecution or declination decisions, meaning declining to prosecute. 03:08.066 --> 03:10.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Just quickly, Carrie, what about the White House being notified about this? 03:10.133 --> 03:13.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% What's the protocol at this point in terms of sharing it with Congress, sharing it with 03:13.400 --> 03:15.466 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% the White House? 03:15.466 --> 03:19.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% CARRIE JOHNSON: I'm told from the Justice Department that they did place a call to the 03:21.433 --> 03:24.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% White House Counsel's Office around 4:45 this afternoon to notify them the report was in. 03:26.533 --> 03:30.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The White House doesn't have the contents of this report, only the notification at this 03:30.266 --> 03:32.233 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% time. 03:32.233 --> 03:35.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And, right now, the White House is deferring all questions and substance to the Justice 03:35.300 --> 03:39.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Department, which, basically, is the way it should be and the way that investigations 03:39.266 --> 03:41.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% like this are run. 03:41.300 --> 03:44.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: So, we don't know when and if the White House -- assume at some point 03:44.666 --> 03:46.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they will be briefed, but we don't know when. 03:46.766 --> 03:48.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Well, we are certainly waiting. 03:48.600 --> 03:49.766 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And I... 03:49.766 --> 03:50.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% CARRIE JOHNSON: We expect that, Judy, yes. 03:50.600 --> 03:51.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes. 03:51.600 --> 03:53.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I know you are waiting. 03:53.600 --> 03:56.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And I'm guessing you're going to be camping out at the Justice Department this weekend. 03:56.666 --> 03:59.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Carrie Johnson with NPR, we thank you. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CARRIE JOHNSON: Thank you.