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impact on the ground. >> when the chinese foreign ministry indicated that they would respond in the way they were prepared to. and it turns out the other objects are chinese origin, is there a menu of options prepared for how we deal with that? >> terrific hypothetical. were just not there yet. >> on to the relationship issue, the chinese spy balloon, you got china buying more oil from russia. you got china opening up cases in u.s. technology from u.s. universities. and president xi is...

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Big deal about hillarys emails, we know that he does that often. and he may have done it deliberately, to evade being on the call logs, which are official presidential records that have to go to the national archives, but i am sure that any, even a cursory examination of the facts will lead to a lot of evidence about how that seven hour gap was created, whether it was deliberate by evading it, using other phones, or whether someone actually deleted the white house records. both of which are bad....

Determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. under longstanding department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. >> robert muellers appearance was a rebuke to william barr and to what barr told the american people and congress, that mueller decided on his own not to charge the president. >> if the special counsel found facts sufficient to constitute obstruction of justice, would he have stated that finding? >> if he had found that, the...

Think he lied about things. the full affect was to communicate that had mueller found sufficient evidence, he would have said so or made a charging recommendation and mueller very specifically today, it seemed to me, wanted to push back more on that than anything else. what did you think? >> i think thats true. i think if we can get to the emphasis mueller put on the other activities that russia did, which are in volume one, which are outreaches to trump, which are part of the russian effort, bu...

All this parsing that we have gotten electric bill barr. it is remarkable. in a technical sense, i dont think he lied about things. but the full affect was to communicate that had mueller found sufficient evidence, he would have said so or made a charging recommendation and mueller very specifically today, it seemed to me, wanted to push back more on that than anything else. what did you think? >> i think thats true. i think if we can get to the emphasis mueller put on the other activities that ...

We does not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. under longstanding department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. >> robert muellers appearance was a rebuke to william barr and to what barr told the american people and congress, that mueller decided on his own not to charge the president. >> if the special counsel found facts sufficient to constitute obstruction of justice, would he have stated that finding?...

Were not convinced that the fbi wasnt collecting 100% of the text messages. >> mr. wray, i think we all can agree that mr. comey should not have made his announcement and press conference. i assume you dont disagree with me on that. would you have made a charging recommendation at all or would you have left that to the department of justice? >> well, senator, as i said, we accept the findings and recommendations in the report. my own view is that the policies about public disclosure as youve elu...

Them. >> thats of concern. we can all agree that mr. comey should not have made his july 6 announcement and press conference. i assume you dont disagree. would you have made a charging recommendation at all or would you have left that to the department of justice? ed. >> senator, as i said, we accept the findings and recommendations in the report. my own view is that the policies about public disclosure as you alluded to are clear about what we should or shouldnt do. as far as making charge and ...

No bias personally. secondly, you said i believe somewhere in the report that with regard to the charging decisions since that decision was made not by those that you found the bias from but from others and this would be prosecutors, not fbi correct? >> correct. >> that you felt that whatever bias they had at least as to the charging decision did not flow through, even though -- can you say that thats true even though in this case the director of the fbi gave a charging recommendation? >> yeah, ...