"Color-Coded Redactions" - What Won't We See in the Mueller Report

The Investigation

ABC News

News, Politics

3.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

675 days, 2800 subpoenas and 500 witness interviews later, the Mueller Report - with color-coded redactions - is expected to be made public this week. Now, the ABC News Investigative team is taking you inside the "War Room" where the team will read and report back all the details once the report is released. In this episode of "The Investigation," co-host Chris Vlasto along with John Santucci and Matt Mosk break down everything you need to know about the upcoming release of the Mueller Report with Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl and legal analyst Dan Abrams. Karl points to one man for answers:"[Don] McGahn is a central player here, the one that is potentially the most dangerous," while Abrams breaks down the elephant in the room legal question: what constitutes obstruction of justice? Abrams concludes though, when it comes to what is in the highly anticipated Special Counsel's report: "There's going to be material which suggests that he obstructed the investigation, and if it had been anybody else, it probably would have been criminal."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the investigation. I'm Chris Vlaster, senior executive producer of investigations here at ABC News, and I'm joined by my colleagues, John Santucci and Matt Mosque. Both of them have been covering Donald Trump since he began running for president.
0:21.1	John was on the trail with him and now covers him at the White House.
0:24.3	And Matt was one of the first investigative reporters back during the election who came to me and brought up Russia.
0:30.6	And what is this business deals that Donald Trump?
0:33.2	And even back then, I was a little skeptical, but Matt kept pushing and he turned out to be right.
0:39.3	This is a big week for the Mueller investigation on Thursday. They are going to finally release
0:45.2	the 400-page document that Bill Barr has been going through. A lot of it's going to be redacted.
0:50.9	It's going to be color-coded on why things are redacted. I think, John, you said that I think
0:57.1	even in the bureau they were testing out how long it takes to copy. Well, we brought an extra copy
1:01.7	machines that could do color, but six minutes and 14 seconds is what we're looking at. Apparently,
1:06.3	the machines slowed down at like 370 pages, Chris. So may have a little problem there.
1:11.7	But yeah, we're fighting right now.
1:14.1	Who gets the first copies?
1:15.8	But don't worry, boss.
1:16.9	You get one of the first five.
1:18.3	Matt, what are you looking for the most?
1:20.9	What do you think?
1:21.6	I mean, everyone says, we're going to skip over collusion and just go to the obstruction case.
1:27.1	What do you think? What are you going to be looking for?
1:28.6	Well, so we understand it's two sections, collusion and obstruction. And in the collusion section, where I think there will be interest is in all of the different contacts between the Trump campaign and Trump campaign aids and Russian agents and Russian officials. We know
1:47.6	just from what's in the public record that there were a multitude of attempts to create this
1:54.7	contact between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. There are, I think, a half a dozen people who proposed the two of them
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