Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

It's 625 Eastern on Friday, March 22nd, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted

his long awaited report to the Attorney General.

I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress.

I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.

I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent, and I'm Susan Davis, I also cover Congress.

Alright, I am in Denver covering a different story, but Mueller Time has finally arrived,

so Carrie, what do we know at this point in time about this report?

We know that after nearly two years of investigating, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has told the

Justice Department his work is done.

He sent a security officer to DOJ earlier this afternoon to let the Deputy Attorney General

Rod Rosenstein know Rosenstein briefed the Attorney General Bill Barr within minutes,

and now Barr has told members of Congress he's going to think about the issue, figure

out what he can make public and get back to the Hill as early as this weekend.

From what Barr has said before, it is confirmation hearing, and since then do we have any sense

of what sort of form that report will take?

We don't know, we know that the Mueller report itself is described as comprehensive by

a Justice Department spokesperson, but we don't know how much of that will ever see the

line of day, the regulations, call for the Attorney General to do most of the talking

here. Barr has talked in his confirmation hearing about wanting to be transparent, but he

could run up against the limits of the law.

Comprehensive, that's an interesting phrase, because I remember when we talked about what

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