Welcome to Talking Feds, a prosecutor's round table that brings together some of the

best-known former Department of Justice officials for a dynamic discussion of the most pressing

legal topics of the day, including the Mueller probe and related investigations.

I'm Harry Littman.

I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and also

Assistant United States Attorney or Line Prosecutor.

Good evening, everybody.

We're here in sort of emergency session because at 5 o'clock, as everybody now knows, the

Attorney General of the United States announced that Bob Mueller had given him the much-awaited

report and that Mueller's probe is now finished, leaving perhaps more questions than it answered.

I'm here with Paul Fishman, the former United States Attorney from the District of New Jersey,

and Department Hancho with many positions, Julie Zeebrach, a Hancho in the Obama Justice Department

and Matt Miller, the head of the Office of Public Affairs in the Department of Justice

with Eric Holder, to puzzle through what this all means.

I'd like to start with trying to give everyone's best opinion about just what exactly Bob

Mueller gave William Barr today.

Barr's letter says there was a report about declinations and prosecutions.

Do we think that's all it was or is there more to it?

Paul, you have any thoughts?

Well, so, look, everybody knows the prosecutions that Bob Mueller has already brought, and there

been a lot of them, and they've been consequential, and they've been wide-ranging.

But what's really interesting to me about this is essentially under the Special Counsel

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