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The counter intelligence program is something that bill barr is keen on trying to figure out what decisions were made and why at that time. >> sandra: of course, democrats in the house have been relentless for their calls for the entire text of the mueller report to be released without redactions. theyve also jerry nadler house judiciary has demanded the underlying evidence behind the report, the documents that were used to come to this -- these conclusions and draw up the report. but mueller ha...

There is a lot of many questions and concerns we have seen in town halls and people are getting abbreviated understandings of what was in this report. were not even clear that members of congress even key members of congress have read the entire report. >> yeah, thats an extraordinary fact, chris. just to underscore members of congress are the people now faced with some decisions about how to proceed with the special counsels report in hand. whether to begin impeachment proceedings as some democ...

Case. >> and the 448 page report was released in mid-april, barr explained that he worked with ebony general rod rosenstein to look at the evidence against a president. and he came up short. >> we accepted the legal framework in reaching their conclusions. >> mueller addressed the dispute against the attorney generals decision to release a four-page letter to congress obtaining barr assessment of the conclusions. >> i looked at certain portions of the report to be released, the attorney general ...

Potentially -- it would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge. so that was justice department policy. those were the principles under which we operated. and from them, we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime. that is the offices final position and we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the president. we conducted an ...

Thought he had two other main points, one was to hammer to president trump which is the russians did interfere in our election and they did it to help trump. and it puts an asterisk on his win. the second hammer was to barr, you have told the american people that the olc memo had nothing to do with my conclusions and that is not true. the only reason i came to these conclusions was because the legal counsel memorandum said it was unconstitutional to indict a sitting president. and he has laid ou...

Findings were. id love to hear him say that so the american public who has not read the report can hear what it said, the very damming conclusions that he made about president trump. >> there was nothing unequivocal about the mueller report, even if you just read the summary of it. hans nichols at the white house. i understand you have new information for us. >> i was just speaking with the senior administration official, chris. the white house was given a heads up about this last night. what is...

You know, that this does not fairly characterize this, the mueller report. and so can he come out after two years -- he has to come out after two years, he has to understand this. hes a former fbi director, hes a former prosecutor, hes viewed as mr. integrity in washington. he has to address these things. is he going to try to bring some clarity to this, or does after two years he only adds to the confusion. thats a pretty big bar. >> and its fascinating timing, because robert mueller did not wa...

>> sandra: if i could ask you a question again the news is robert mueller will speak at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. he will not be taking questions afterward. this will be a statement only, were told. we just learned about this. this is an hour and 20 minutes from now. first time well hear him publicly speak since the release of the mueller report. what can you tell us about any sort of pressure there may be behind the scenes for robert mueller to publicly back up a.g. barrs conclusions on that rep...

Written form. we know that he wrote two letters to bill barr. when you look at what were going to hear this morning, do you expect in any way those disagreements and those unusual r letters, including this statement mueller saying to barr at the time a private letter that barr summary didnt capture the context, nature and substance of muellers work and conclusions. do you see that as a jumping off point for todays remarks at 11:00? >> that i dont know. i mean, we have reported just recently that...

Different approach so far. peter doocy reports from capitol hill. >> speaker pelosi says that she would rather have six different house committees looking at the present and then one streamlined impeachment proceeding for now. >> nothing is off the table. but we do want to make such a compelling case, such an ironclad case that even the republican senate would look at the time that seems to be not an objective jury, will be convinced of the path that we have to take as a country. >> to do that, ...