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WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr and his team on Saturday pored over the highly anticipated report by special counsel Robert Mueller, a senior Justice Department official said, preparing to deliver the investigation’s “principal conclusions” to jittery lawmakers and President Trump as soon as Sunday. Barr and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed Mueller and oversaw much of his work, were cloistered inside the Justice Department debating how to present the findings.

Yvonne Abraham He can always go lower. Republicans will always let him go lower. So now President Trump is obsessively attacking a dead man.  Renée Graham Announcing Abrams as a running mate now would be audacious; never before has a major-party candidate announced a running mate so early.

Yvonne Abraham He can always go lower. Republicans will always let him go lower. So now President Trump is obsessively attacking a dead man.  Renée Graham Announcing Abrams as a running mate now would be audacious; never before has a major-party candidate announced a running mate so early.

Yvonne Abraham He can always go lower. Republicans will always let him go lower. So now President Trump is obsessively attacking a dead man.  Renée Graham Announcing Abrams as a running mate now would be audacious; never before has a major-party candidate announced a running mate so early.

Yvonne Abraham He can always go lower. Republicans will always let him go lower. So now President Trump is obsessively attacking a dead man.  Renée Graham Announcing Abrams as a running mate now would be audacious; never before has a major-party candidate announced a running mate so early.

Rep. MORE's campaign and Russia in the 2016 election. Meadows, the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and an ally of Trump's, made the remarks on Twitter shortly after the news broke that Mueller had delivered his finished report to Attorney General William Barr. Meadows was one of several Trump allies who seemed to see the release of the report as a victory for the president. “The Mueller report delivery suggests no more indictments are coming from the Special Counsel,” Meadows wrote.

Attorney General William Barr sent a letter to Congress on Friday announcing that special counsel finished his nearly two-year investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Barr wrote in the letter to the top Republicans and Democrats on the Judiciary panels in the House and Senate that Mueller "has submitted to me today a 'confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions' he has reached." "I am reviewing the report and anticipate that I may be in a position to advise you of the Special Counsel's principal conclusions as soon as

Rudy Giuliani insisted in an interview with The Hill on Friday that the president’s legal team had not asked for a special preview of special counsel MORE’s report. “We have not made any request, we have not made any demand,” he told The Hill. An Associated Press tweet earlier on Friday had suggested that Trump’s lawyers wanted an “early look at Mueller's findings before they are made public.”  It attributed that statement to Giuliani, but not as a direct quote.  Pressed on the apparent confusion, Giuliani said the comment that formed the basis of the AP report “proba

Special counsel multiple reports. Multiple outlets, citing a senior Justice official, report that after nearly two years of leading the high-profile investigation, Mueller does not recommend additional indictments. The news comes shortly after Mueller turned over his long-anticipated report detailing his investigation's findings to Attorney General William Barr on Friday. News that the probe was wrapping up came after Barr notified the House and Senate Judiciary committees that he has received and is reviewing Mueller's report, 

MORE’s term in office. Barr told the House and Senate Judiciary Committees that he is reviewing the report and "may be in a position to advise you of the Special Counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend," according to a letter circulated by the Justice Department.  Barr said he intends to consult with Deputy Attorney General MORE, who was in charge of the bureau’s original investigation into Russian inter