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Building. >> to discuss christine blasey fords allegations, one republican senator bursting into the anteroom saying he wants to fight a democratic senator because theyre so angry about it. the white house counsel who is literally refusing to take repeated phone calls from the president, tells his aide -- >> i just want to read that quote because it stands out. this is don mcgahn who of course is in the news right now for his resistance to the house subpoena on impeachment. so this was when trum...

Tv expect to see entertainment and drama and not facts and findings. we saw a stark contrast today between a professional prosecutor and professional politicians. and now we have a choice to make. are we going to choose the facts or are we going to choose the drama? and i dont think any of that would have changed depending on the age of the prosecutor. >> josh, another way of putting some of this is the mueller report came out not attuned to the age of the internet. todays televised hearing was ...

Case here to go forward with accountability for the president. and i talked to two members of congress tonight who said already in the democratic caucus up on capitol hill theres less momentum for impeachment tonight than there was before these hearings. >> and frank figliuzzi, thats a fair question. what else didnt you hear today that perhaps you wanted to? >> oh, i think it would have been very compelling if mueller had actually said, look, if donald j. trump was not the president of the unite...

Intelligence committee chairman adam schiff totaled it all up from today. russia interfered in our election to help trump. russians made numerous contacts with the campaign. the campaign welcomed their help. no one reported these contacts or interference to the fbi. they lied to cover it up. that was the quote. that was the summation after a protracted presentation. mueller started the day in front of house judiciary, where he was asked about trumps claims of exoneration and his possible legal e...

That kind of language but thats not the kind of clarion call clarity that i think people were hoping for from this hearing. and im struck, brian, that this is really the third time democrats have fallen into this trap of regarding mueller as sort of a messiah figure who was going to provide some sort of unifying, overarching indictment of, you know, numerous people across the trump campaign and the trump white house for their actions in the 2016 campaign. that didnt happen. then the report came ...

>> was there sufficient evidence to convict president trump or anyone else with obstruction of justice? >> we did not make that calculation. >> how could you not have made the calculation -- >> because the olc opinion, office of legal counsel, indicates that we cannot indict a sitting president. >> could you charge the president with a crime after he left office? >> yes. >> you believe that he committed -- you could charge the president of the united states with obstruction of justice after he l...

Well put it on the screen. hes been a frequent guest on this show. lets call him a lapsed republican. "schiffs five minutes and muellers answers would have been enough for republicans to impeach and convict any other president before sundown today." and indeed 12 minutes prior to him tweeting that here is a bit of the schiff-mueller exchange. well talk about it on the other side. >> during the course of this russian interference in the election the russians made outreach to the trump campaign, d...

House counsel fame, remains at the top of the democrats witness list. mcgahn sat with mueller, youll remember, 30-plus hours. his name is mentioned 500-plus times in the report. most notably in this detail, volume 2, june of 2017. "the president called mcgahn, directed him to have the special counsel removed. so theres that. democrats say thats proof of attempt obstruction of justice. white house instructed mccann -- mcgahn, rather. i sound like that member of congress today who could not get hi...

If youre watching this show right now, you almost certainly know more about the russia investigation than the man who led the russia investigation. >> the only thing its his purview was framing president trump. that was it. >> the witch hunt is dead, gone, it is buried. >> it clearly wasnt the mueller report, its just a name. i had more to do with the mueller report than probably he did. >> sample reaction to robert muellers testimony from the presidents favorite news network. still with us, phi...

>> see what youre saying about you. >> if you want the world to understand the truth that you spent two years uncovering, and thats what you want, you want people to want justice to be done, you got to understand what the modern media environment is in which that truth, that truths can be conveyed and justice can be sought. his pre-modernness, i think, worked against him in some sense, in the larger sense. >> phil rucker, the president tonight tweeted out video clips, like a video clipping servi...