Special counsel Bob Mueller has finished his Russia investigation late today.

He filed his formal report with the Justice Department, which announced this news at 5 p.m.

Eastern on March 22nd, a day that history will mark as the end of a significant probe and the beginning of a pitched battle over who will see Bob Mueller's findings.

And what, if anything, to do about them.

Here are the facts. Attorney General Bill Barr notifying Congress with this letter you see right

here brand new. It states that the DOJ never overruled Mueller on any big calls like who to indict

and states Barr may be in a position to advise Congress of Bob

Mueller's principal conclusions about those indictments and who he did not indict as soon as this

weekend, as soon as this weekend. So there is a lot to get to. I have a big panel and a lot of

experts and Chuck and Nicole waiting, but I go first to a newsmaker.

The intelligence chairman in the house, Adam Schiff, joins us by phone for his first reaction.

Good evening, sir.

I'm waiting to see if I can hear Chairman Schiff on the phone.

Sorry, I can hear you.

Great. Thank you. I hear you now, Chairman.

Our viewers can hear you. Your reaction to tonight's news.

Well, we've been waiting for that puff of smoke above the Justice Department and finally

got it today that the special counsel has concluded his investigation.

The key question, though, is will Bill Barr live up to the commitment that he made to be as transparent as possible, which would require making public the Mueller report?

We voted overwhelmingly in the House to do that, but for Lindsey Graham's stopping that bill in the Senate, I think the Senate would have voted overwhelmingly to make the Mueller report public as well.

But one thing I will add, Ari, is the report itself, as important as that will be, is not as

important as the underlying evidence. And in particular of concern to us in the Intelligence

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