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Robert Mueller's Russia Report Is Coming Thursday. Here's What You Need To Know

The questions and answers you need in order to prepare for the arrival of the hottest new 400-page document in Washington.
Special counsel Robert Mueller leaves following a meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 2017.

Updated at 12:03 p.m. EST

The Justice Department plans to release special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Thursday morning, it announced. Here's what you need to know.

What is it?

Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017 to investigate whether President Trump's campaign conspired with the Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The fact of the interference itself had been long established, and last month Attorney General William Barr told Congress that Mueller did not find that Trump's campaign was involved with it.

Barr also told Congress that Mueller didn't establish that Trump broke the law in trying to frustrate the investigation — but neither did Mueller's office "exonerate" the president.

Barr and charges.

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