Hello listeners and welcome to another edition of Politico's nerd cast.

I'm Scott Bland, your host.

This week an all-muller edition of the show, we're going to unpack some fundamental questions

from Thursday's release of the redacted report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Did the President obstruct justice by obstructing an

investigation into obstruction? Lots on back there obviously. We're going to talk

about why the report doesn't reach any conclusions on that question.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr

don't seem to quite see eye to eye about this.

And we're going to talk about what's next.

How will Congress act on this report?

And of course, we're also going to talk about the central question

that launched this investigation in the first place,

Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Quick note, before we begin, as always,

we are recording this on Thursday afternoon

Eastern time so we've seen all the presidential tweets and reaction up until then

all right let's get started I want to welcome our. We have two of our congressional reporters here in the studio.

Kyle Cheney has been neck deep in this Russia stuff for the last few years now.

Kyle, thank you for making the time on such a nutty day.

Thank you for having me, Scott.

And thank you as well to Melanie Zona,

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