The Mueller report is out

Attorney General William Barr said the soon-to-be-released report contains only "limited redactions" — none of which were the result of executive privilege.

"As you will see, most of the redactions were compelled by the need to prevent harm to ongoing matters and to comply with court orders prohibiting the public disclosure of information bearing upon ongoing investigations and criminal cases, such as the IRA case and the Roger Stone case," Barr said.

The redactions were "applied by Department of Justice attorneys working closely together with attorneys from the Special Counsel’s Office, as well as with the intelligence community, and prosecutors who are handling ongoing cases. 

"The redactions are their work product," Barr said.

Barr said the decision "whether to assert executive privilege" on part of the report rested with President Trump. Trump decided he would not assert that privilege, Barr said.

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Attorney General William Barr said that, while special counsel Robert Mueller and his team "investigated a number of links or contacts between Trump Campaign officials and individuals connected with the Russian government," they found no evidence of collusion.

"After reviewing those contacts, the special counsel did not find any conspiracy to violate US law involving Russia-linked persons and any persons associated with the Trump campaign," Barr said.

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Attorney General William Barr said the special counsel's report details Russian efforts to hack into computers and steal documents and emails from the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The purpose, he said, was to "eventually publicizing these documents."

Attorney General William Barr said special counsel Robert Mueller's report shows that Russian operatives sought to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election.

He added that the special counsel found "no collusion by any Americans."

"The special counsel found no evidence that any Americans – including anyone associated with the Trump campaign – conspired or coordinated with the Russian government or the IRA in carrying out this illegal scheme." Barr said.

"Put another way, the Special Counsel found no 'collusion' by any Americans in the IRA’s illegal activity," he said.

Attorney General William Barr detailed the timing of the report's release.

He said the report will be released to the chairman and ranking members of the Senate and House judiciary committees at 11 a.m. ET.

The report will also be posted on the Department of Justice's website for the public after it's delivered to Congress, he said.

Attorney General William Barr is expected to speak soon on the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

President Trump's personal lawyers, led by Rudolph Giuliani, are working on a rebuttal to special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

His lawyers have been reworking a response they've been planning for months to conform more to what they expect in Mueller's report based on Barr's letter, though that rebuttal is not expected until sometime after the redacted version is released today.

At the White House: The President and White House officials are not expected to review the report ahead of its public release, people familiar with the matter said. Instead, aides — like the rest of official Washington — are planning to pore over the hundreds of pages starting the moment they are released.

Trump, who is known to prefer one-page summaries with visual aids over lengthy briefing texts, is not expected to read each page of the report himself, according to one official. Instead, his legal team is planning to brief him on the findings once they've been read and digested. And the President is likely to spend hours consuming television coverage of the report, which newsrooms are gearing up to read and analyze.

The special counsel's report is expected to be released today. But one question lingering is what will happen after it's out.

Here's what could happen:

Special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be released to Congress on discs, according to a senior Department of Justice official. 

Lawmakers could receive the report some time in the 11 a.m. ET hour after Attorney General William Barr's news conference.