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Witch hunt and hoax and he said absolutely not. >> sandra: john ratcliffe said it went beyond the scope of what robert mueller was supposed to do with this investigation. an exchange in the hearing room yesterday. >> the mueller report was not written by bob mueller and that a lot of the findings and conclusions that were in there were written by a bunch of lawyers that didnt like donald trump. that had supported and in some cases represented hillary clinton. so i think that was a fact that came...

Exonerated him. but that is not what your report said, is it? >> correct. it is not what the report said. >> so the report did not conclude that he did not commit obstruction of justice. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> was there sufficient evidence to convict president trump or anyone else with obstruction of justice? >> we did not make that calculati calculation. >> how could you not have made the calculation -- >> because the olc opinion, office of legal counsel, indicates that we cann...

If you want to know whats there then read the report and draw your own conclusions as opposed to being informed by people like you or me and those who have been opining about it all day. read the report. draw those conclusions and then figure out what takeaways you would like to see. what are the next steps from your own informed opinion -- >> okay. >> -- now as opposed to being told what the next step should be. >> well, john, he didnt defend himself much, but he did push back. it was really on...

>> you cant do a direct comparison as a result that because of other extenuating circumstances involving these specific diplomats. >> of course, around 12 of those patients they were talking about had prior concussions so we know there are brain changes that can occur. in addition we dont have mris of these patients from before. it is hard to say this happened and cause changes. >> it could have been the case even before they went to cuba. >> really hard to extrapolate that data. >> cuban offici...

To know from those two individuals specifically? >> i mean, in some aspects, i think those witnesses actually could be much more useful for the democrats than even robert mueller was, right? robert mueller, we saw his conclusions, we read the report. im not sure we gleaned much new from the hearing yesterday that wasnt already in that report. these witnesses, we havent gotten to hear them speak yet. its essential for the democrats to push forward on the court battles, to get these witnesses actu...

To make a big push in the investigation and possibly even impeachment. did you see the needle move very much? >> i dont think so but robert mueller told the country weeks ago, his testimony would be his report. as the day went on, he got even more comfortable saying he would decline to answer questions not within the four corners of his report. democrats knew this was a possibility. many set their goals accordingly by simply having robert mueller read into the record or be an audio book for the ...

Get him on the impeachment question. impugn barrs report, right? because three days after that report came out the summary of the report, there was a private letter by mueller saying, you mischaracterized my conclusions. how did he mischaracterize those conclusions? if you miss this offensive moment, thats the worst. >> thats putting a high bar for the democrats, but its a fair bar. and its one of the reasons i love having waj on. the people who voted in the midterms, the people on the progressi...

Together different for him to get away from not answering that questions. i find that a disgrace to our criminal justice system. thank you so much, i yield back to the crime. >> mr. murphy. >> director mueller, thank you for your dedicated service. you described detailing a criminal investigation, correct? >> yes. >> since it was outside the purview of your investigation, your report did not reach counter intelligence conclusions about the subject matter of your report is it. >> thats true. >> s...

Launch an investigation against a sitting citizen and eventually the president. the results will be released and well need to hear from them to make sure theyre never again used and turned on a private citizen or a political candidate as a result of a political leadings of a handful of fbi agents. the origins and conclusions of the mueller investigation are the same things, what it means to be american. every american has a voice in our democracy and we must protect the sanctity of their voice b...

Mueller is asked a specific question he generally answered and generally was able to sort of work through it. there was a lot of word salad in my view in some of the questions today. and even i read the report multiple times and trying to follow this i had to think through what was happening. what i think you see with bob mueller when he -- he is going to respond on facts but he didnt want to agree to other peoples conclusions. whether it was the republicans or the democrats. >>ic i hear your fa...