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That. im actually a little surprised that mueller backed off of that. he really let the president get away with ever having to answer any question in writing or in person under oath or not under oath about obstruction of justice. >> and michael, youve worked for mueller. you know him. why do you think he backed off? >> well, because in order to meet the standard for subpoena in a case like this, youre going to have to establish the need for that information and know alternative means of getting ...

>> but he did break his silence on twitter a short time ago. tweeting for the very first time since mueller delivered his report to the department of justice. good morning, have a great day. >> and what a day its going to be. good morning, indeed. it could be a big news day and we have a full team keeping track of it all. some are shaking their heads. julie ainsley, justice reporter with us. good to talk to you this morning. talk us through what to expect today and when we can feasibly hearing f...

In this letter. but theres still plenty more out there. the two biggest ones are congress and my former office, southern district of new york. southern district of new yorks inquiry has nothing to do with collusion with russia. nothing to do with obstruction. they are looking at the financial crimes, the campaign finance crimes, the potential tax crimes coming out of the trump org and inauguration and michael cohen and all the people around him. so this weve also been discussi ining that the pre...

Democrats in congress might call in to testify regarding the findings from the mueller report, since they already mentioned they want to see barr. >> yeah, and adam schiff had said before the report was issued he wanted bob mueller before his committee as well to answer questions. they have threatened to bring him in. the question, will they do that in a public setting or behind closed doors. thats unclear too. but barr seems to be the person right now they want to bring in. barr himself said he...

Probe that mueller did his work, that he came to the conclusions he came to, some, as i said earlier, were ambiguous, some less so according to the barr letter, i think thats a very important thing. it remains the fact that one of the main findings of muellers probe was there was this very, very determined effort on the part of the russians to infiltrate our democracy, and that should be a much deeper concern to the public and to the president of the united states, the commander-in-chief. and ra...

Do you think the american people will ever see his answers? >> i do think so. look, theyre part of the record. theyre no different than any other evidence. so its essentially like a transcript of an interview, only the lawyers and the president got to fill out their end of it. but i think thats going to be fascinating, to take those answers on collusion, conspiracy, whatever were calling it, and compare them to sort of whats known and whats out there in the public record. and to see if they all ...

Now, this is the attorney general saying that this is now our decision. the question we have to ask, was that a decision that mueller wanted to leave to the department of justice or was it something he was intending on congress to make the decision? and thats something there may be two audiences there. but again, until we get the full report, until we actually see what it is that he said, what his thought process was, we wont know exactly what the formulation was, and you know, what was intended...

Investigation as far as thats concerned. now, thats going to be a question, i think, for members of congress to try to get to the bottom of, but if you look at what bill barr is describing, hes describing a scenario where the investigation could not establish that there was corrupt intent by the president. again, one reason why perhaps the investigator couldnt get to that is because the president never sat down for an interview. he answered written questions about the collusion question, but he ...

Mueller did not necessarily come up with that conclusion himself. but scott, one question i have, why would all of these trump campaign officials lie about their contacts with russians? >> yeah, its a good question. and its -- a lot of lawyers in washington will tell you that in any investigation, the most likely thing thats going to trip you up is if you fail to tell the truth. very few people ever, you know, go down for what the underlying investigation is. a lot of people go down for not tell...

Answering -- hes going to have to answer questions for the next year, at least, the question of why did bob mueller not reach a conclusion? its clear that bob mueller could not reach a conclusion on this. and so the question is, going back to lauras point. is it because the president never sat down for an interview? is it because they were never able to issue a subpoena to the president? to get to what his intent was in some of these actions that were clearly suspicious and were by -- you know, ...