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Could be indicted for obstruction of justice after he leaves office. >> what about that? >> can a president be indicted? if you rob a bank you can be indicted. that is a meaningless statement. what they are not reporting is when bob mueller had to correct himself about why did you not move forward with recommendation of indictment, initially said was the office of the legal counsel, that is not correct and they need to correct the record, we never determined any conclusions of culpability becaus...

Bob mueller that i think, again, many of us would see who worked with him previously because, for whatever reasons, and was is the 448-page report and the level of detail and just the stress of the day and all that? i dont know. thats just speculation. >> mmm-hmm. >> but, again, i think its a matter of what he articulated in the report, and i think one of the underlying takeaways, one, is that he encouraged people to keep focused on the written word in the report and then, second, again, without...

That percentage has gone up 15 percentage points. even among democrats, the distrust is growing. this is not going in a good direction for the democrats given the time, effort, and promises. most people are saying lets ge going, lets wrap this up at. >> i think most americans have sense of what happened here. number one the conclusions conspiracies let coordination whatever you want to call it, the president is totally exonerated and that. the obstruction front he overreacted he did some things ...

Obstruction of justice after he leaves office. >> what about that. >> the whole thing about can a president be indicted after they leave office. if you rob a bank you can be indicted. that is meaningless. what they are not reporting in their press statement is when bob muller had to go back and correct himself about the whole why did you not move forward with the recommendation of indictment. >> whether it was a crime -- >> yeah, he said it was the office of legal indictment, he said thats not c...

These issues surrounding russia, surrounding the president. that was laid out in the mueller report. i want to read to you what your democratic colleague congressman jared huff han tolders. he said the democratic majority has pinned a lot on the mueller report and in retrospect we made some tactical mistakes. do you agree that was not the witness democrats were hoping for? >> ive spent months, pamela, tell people that there were not going to be bombshells or head lines out of the testimony. i kn...

Of the obstructive instances they looked at because they looked at as he even admitted under a unique standard. will, cases are unique but standards shouldnt be. everyone should be judged by the same standard with a presumption of innocence brian: to me the biggest surprise was he did not know fusion gps, the most unacceptable was refusing to talk about christopher steel, but you are asking questions, what was your take away? >> that was a really important point that came out because it showed w...

Make efforts to just wrap this whole thing up. pressure from republican lawmakers and supporters and his advisors on fox flus news becau there was fear that muellers conclusion would be more damaging than it was. and it was. we saw mueller reinforce some conclusions like that the president is unfit for office. he was able to get out what he thought was the information that congress should handle and take control of and move forward with. if he tried to interview the president knowing that the le...

Reverbal rate. certainly in the media and social media. that stuff under mines the effectiveness of his ability to communicate the report. which for me was the purpose of the testimony today. so i would have liked to have seen him push back harder on the things. but again classic bob mueller performance. not getting down into the weeds. >> mueller said from the out set, his determined they wouldnt decide whether the president committed obstruction of justice because of the rule. they talk about ...

That stuff under mines the effectiveness of his ability to communicate the report. which for me was the purpose of the testimony today. so i would have liked to have seen him push back harder on the things. but again classic bob mueller performance. not getting down into the weeds. >> mueller said from the outset, his determined they wouldnt decide whether the president committed obstruction of justice because of the rule. they talked about it a lot today. to complete the huge investigation and ...

Committee on information technology, and i actually -- two congresses ago in -- back in 2016 i held the first hearing on election security actually before the 2016 election. and from that time, there has been a lot of updates even after that election. for example, there were some secretaries of states who are reticent from taking supporter help from the federal government and hardying their infrastructure. that has changed since then. the senate report has been done over two years. and some of t...