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Public in any appearance before congress. >> the most pointed and eloquent response to that today was another mueller surprise. it was another surprise in this day of surprising mueller news because it came from oscar winner robert deniro who plays robert mueller on "saturday night live." in an open letter addressed to robert mueller published to "the new york times" he wrote you said that your investigations work speaks for itself. it doesnt. it may speak for itself to lawyers and law makers wh...

Absolve the president, couldnt find that he didnt commit a crime was not his function. >> bill: the question is why? watergate, iran-contra, ken starr operating under different rules they all left behind conclusions or direction. why no conclusions or definitive direction from mueller? >> you would have to ask mr. mueller that. i think that it was pretty plain that the evidence didnt justify it but he didnt want to say that. so he said that he could not clearly find that he didnt commit a crime....

I do think those comments about bob mueller about, you know, the other processes obviously impeachment being the only constitutional way to accuse the president of wrong doing. definitely contradict what is the attorney general said when he summarized muellers report. >> that was former republican governor of new jersey and trump transition chairman chris christie saying that special counsel robert mueller definitely contradicts attorney general barrs summary of his conclusions. joining us actin...

Now antiquated file tape of robert mueller who for a public figure has not been a terribly public man. he appeared older today but thats also what people picked up on in the contrast to donalds trump and his bearing and presence and demeanor, how damaging was this as a contrast to what were already seeing tonight all capital letters again with the witch hunt from the white house? >> yeah, brian. so the donald trump is all about the show, all about bombast and bragging, mueller is all about the f...

Trumper. >> to be clear, the president is correct when he says mueller didnt say anything new, but he was pretty clear that his conclusions were very far from nothing. >> if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. under long standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. chargin...

>> he said in the future of the facts of the case against the president might be such that a special counsel would recommend abandoning the olc opinion but this is not such a case. >> when the report was released in mid-april, barr said he worked with rod rosenstein to assess the obstruction evidence against the president and it came up short. >> we accepted the special counsels legal framework and reaching our conclusions. >> a four page letter to congress containing barrs assessment of bottom-...

Very much something to see here and, mr. president, you welcoming it or at least at the very least not condemning it is very dangerous to america. second is i think hes making a clear statement to the attorney general that your characterization of my conclusions was manifestly misleading, it was inappropriate, it did a disservice to the work of the special counsels office did and it fundamentally was unjust. so for bob mueller to stand there and say its unconstitutional for us to make a determin...

Terribly public man. he appeared older today but thats also what people picked up on in the contrast to donald trump and his bearing and presence and demeanor, how damaging was this as a contrast to what were already seeing tonight all capital letters again with the witch hunt from the white house? >> yeah, brian. if donald trump is all about the show, all about bombast and bragging, mueller is all about the facts. he kept to a script today. you saw him reading from that paper. he did not using ...

No uncertain terms, he put it on the air multiple times today, that your summary did not reflect -- and i forget the exact wording -- but did not reflect the meaning and conclusions of the report. this is the third time the special counsel has gone on the record saying, mr. barr, your conclusions do not fit my conclusions. >> something else thats really important about hearing from mueller today, we havent heard his voice in two years, and we have been told that he is the architect, the captain ...

Saying with robert mueller finishing up his work it is time for democrats to join republicans in our efforts to actually address americas to do list because that is what our constituents deserve and expect. mueller clearly does not want to testify in a congressional hearing but the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff suggests it is going to happen. there is still a bipartisan investigation in the senate intelligence committee focused on what the russians have done and protec...