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Posted: 2019-04-18T00:21:45Z | Updated: 2019-04-18T14:51:10Z

Seven-hundred-and-two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel, the Justice Department on Thursday morning will publish a redacted version of Muellers report on the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Muellers report is one of the most highly anticipated documents in American history. Political journalists are treating Thursday morning like its election night. The Justice Department has taken precautions to prevent its website from crashing. Publishers plan to rush copies of the report to print, and NBCs Seth Meyers has announced an extended 90-minute version of his comedy show just to make jokes about it.

Clocking in at around 400 pages, the Mueller report spells out the findings of an investigation that led to the indictment of six Trump associates as well as dozens of Russian operatives who hacked Democrats emails and boosted candidate Donald Trump on social media. It also examines allegations that President Trump obstructed justice by interfering with the investigation.

Attorney General William Barr, working in counsel with Mueller, will release a redacted version of the report that leaves out grand jury material, intelligence information that might reveal sources and methods, information that may affect ongoing investigations and information that would infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.

In a four-page letter to Congress on March 24, Barr said that Mueller did not find that any Americans conspired with the Russian government to influence the election. But the report likely further details Russias extensive efforts to boost Trump and hurt Democratic opponent Hillary Clintons campaign, answers questions about the Trump campaigns contacts with Russian government officials and supposed agents, and lays out Muellers evidence on obstruction of justice.