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The end of criminal investigations they conduct. >> what about his staff. hope hicks may have lied to congress. what might happen to her because william barr is running the justice department which is donald trumps defense agency. >> sheer could be pardoned by the president if she recharged now. there is a smart strategy by asking her to come back and testify. she will either have to double down and repeat the lies where she could be indicted as late as july of 2024 or looking at the many years ...

>> the most important thing is for the democrats to let mueller tell the story of his conclusions. the information is so damaging, it got lost in the middle of barrs early summaries. now is the time for the american people to hear it fresh. >> what do you consider a successful hearing with mueller should they try to get out of him in your view? >> they ought to try to eliteit if donald trump were not the sitting president, would he be under criminal indictment. hes not going directly answer that...

Secretary acosta gave to epstein. harris has her own history of handling sex crimes leniently especially when are there political element. she negotiated a deal with san diegos democratic mayor. he spent no time in prison and did not have to register as a sex offender even though he pleaded guilty to offensives against three separate women. this is a former federal prosecutor and has perspective. you remember the filner case very well. the creepy mayor of san diego. you would think based on the ...

Attempted to obstruct justice. what do you think the implications will be of this hearing? >> its interesting because neil points -- and neil is always right. file obligated to say that sitting next to him. but the democrats really let the republicans get the jump on them on the political side of the equation when the attorney general came out and gave the public misleading information at best about what the report said. so the question for the democrats is can they now months down the road reen...

>> harris, youre right. the democrats whole goal is to ju justify their own behavior. they dont like the conclusions that there was no conspiracy, no coordination with russia, not just with the president but with no americans. they want to find that the investigation was insufficient. they didnt look at all of the evidence so they continue their investigations, continue to look for other evidence. the third thing is elaborate on the evidence to come to their own or different conclusions. what we...

Life, the mueller report, what does that mean to you? >> you know, they dont like the conclusions. so i think for them, they want to hold this up and said, well, its an insufficient report. the conclusions that they found are not supported by the evidence -- >> harris: is it a dramatic reading? what does that mean? >> its funny.its really for them to justify what theyre doing. remember, its not as if this investigation is ongoing in the judiciary and intelligence communities here will stop after...

Strategy to kind of translate this very dense 448-page report to a television audience. because we saw at the special counsels surprise a doj press statement a little over a month ago, just the power of a visual. he did not really repeat anything beyond what was in the mueller report. but you saw just the immediate impact that him just going up there and saying the conclusions of the report and saying what he said had. i mean, for example, there are two democratic presidential candidates, cory b...

And jessica, the democrats really see this as their chance to maybe finally -- or the only time get americans fired up about this. >> thats exactly right. these are two back-to-back high-stakes hearings and even though special counsel robert mueller is a reluctant witness members of these committees note that congress isnt necessarily bound by the limits that mueller might try to impose. now, as such, democrats really want to seize the moment to highlight key portions of muellers report, includi...

Issued their report. they were not obstructed. so that makes it more difficult. >> i want the get in the house intel committee ranking member, devin nunes. he has the concern ahead of muellers testimony. lets watch. >> i fear what is going on right now, mueller is working with his staff that are back channelling to the democrats. its very possible that mueller is going to have a few little sound bites that are going to give the democrats exactly what they want. >> do you agree with that? >> i th...

Hour. but i want to start on the story first out of the gate this morning. the new look and how house democrats are planning to proceed when robert mueller testifies next wednesday. ken, what are you learning? >> reporter: hallie, congressional hearings tend to be a free for all. democrats tell us they are working hard to make sure this one will not be that. staffers say they prepared for this more than any other in their career. look, they know robert mueller is a reluctant witness and they hav...