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Another cfr regulation that says if theres a fundamental disagreement of veto by the department of justice over the special counsel, that has to be reported. so hes already taken care of that part which really would have been a secondary or an independent report. whats left is figuring out the big question that were all wrestling with, which is how much actually goes over the wall to congress, how much of it is redacted. and i think theres going to be several areas of both policy and law that ki...

Justice, and firing james comey, that was a question that mueller was investigating, did trump obstruct justice. what are you looking for on that front? >> well, i think this is going to be an torrent important part as well, because people have focused on the collusion side, right? if there are no indictments, bitch that it was unlikely that the president committed some grand conspiracy on his own, it suggests that mueller didnt find any collusion there. now, the obstruction thing is harder beca...

Charles grassley, last june in which rosenstein said that prosecutors do not like to talk about misconduct among people who are not being charged. so if it is that there are no more indictments, that would indicate the presidents not being charged with anything and so, therefore, the report might not say anything about any misconduct on the presidents part. theres also been this theory that maybe theres a sealed indictment somewhere thats waiting to get opened when the president gets out of offi...

>> right. paul: theres another thing here, dan, and that is, its interesting, thousand we know that the president -- now we know that the president was never interviewed by robert mueller. remember the discussion about whether he would subpoena him? now we know that the gamble the presidents lawyers took not to submit to an interview, just to submit to written questions, paid off. >> with yeah. and we know that was a back and forth with the president himself frequently saying id be happy to sit ...

Paul: fun, fun, fun. you heard adam schiff say he might subpoena robert mueller, is that something he would have to pay attention to, mueller? >> i think he would. its unlikely theres enough support for the motion of completely ignoring the subpoena, but its going to be interesting. in the context of not an impeachment proceedings, but oversight in a congressional hearing, theres a little more leeway for the executive branch to push back and say, no, weve done our writing. take a look at that an...

Lets talk about the collusion issue. donald trump is a no collusion so i am vindicated. in fact, we dont know what else mueller might know in terms of contacts between americans in russia. >> thats one of the problems with indictments. they dont exist to exonerate people they are about detailing what crimes we do know happen. of trump critics saying this does not exonerate him. there is the word called on windy that some of the russians did communicate with the trump campaign but the officials d...

Upon obama while president and candidate obama deride romney for suggesting the russians were biggest faux. it was as if peace had broken out all over. now people on capitol hill decided the russians are bad actors. >> they are bad actors and indeed trump during the campaign raised the possibility of forming a coalition with the russians to fight terrorism. we know the russians are meddle nothing our elections but germany and france. it has been putin made himself radio active you cannot do busi...