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Office. sarah sanders response to that was that congress should not even bother to take it up, because that has already been investigated thoroughly by the special counsel. so there is a little bit of spin happening here, as the white house tries to reframe what robert mueller had to say. but at the end of the day, i think the president is looking forward to making this a political issue for 2020, believing that it will ultimately help motivate his base going into his re-election bid. jake? >> a...

Faith conversations when he discussed his quote, principle conclusions about the report the weekend it was released. >> frank, lets talk about what he emphasized from that original indictment against the russians. >> he opened his statement and he closed his statement with the russian problem. he reminded all americans that we should all be concerned about this. we have to ask ourselves just as were asking the question, what next with regard to obstruction? what next with regard to congress and ...

By a federal prosecutor from connecticut who has been at work for two months. the distinction between number one and two is the following. the inspector general only looks at those who are working for the government now. the federal -- or then. the federal prosecutor has the legal authority to go outside and interview former employees of government so you would think based on that, that prosecutor would have morally e -- more leeway. >> sandra: statement only, no question and answer period to fo...

He does explain a little bit about his thinking and about the intent when he made his decisions on both conspiracy and obstruction of justice. but i dont know that he is going to upset the apple cart here in william barrs house, so to speak. >> cynthia? >> ari, i dont think thats in his dna at all to be disrespectful to the attorney general in the department of justice. i dont see that happening. my guess is he is going to discuss very briefly his conclusions. as much as i would give my right ar...

There was no obstruction. thats because we have two department of justices. we have the department of justice led by bill barr who made his own determination of obstruction of justice and then we have what bob mueller found. he made very clear today that he was not saying that the president did not obstruct justice. he said if i could tell you the president didnt commit a crime, i would say so. the fact i havent is only because of this constitutional restriction that the department of justice ha...

As me, in a letter, you did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this offices work and conclusions. that would be a very simple thing for him to address here, and different, i imagine, to hear that coming out of his mouth as opposed to in written form and letter to the attorney general. >> hes done that, as you read from his letter. the question is whether he goes beyond that and whether he says like, this is now up to the congress. or gives the democrats any encouragement. we...

Push it? >> i think ultimately theyre going to have to. it could be behind -- in a closed session or partially open and partially closed. but there are a lot of questions that you -- that stem right from the report. ive gone through it with a very fine tooth comb and i had a lot of questions. now theyll get some of the underlying evidence to answer some of those. but some of them will be the decision-making process to reach the conclusions that were reached in the report. and only mueller and hi...

About his reasons for not going forward with an indictment. the other possibility is that barr is misleading the country and theres a lot to support that hypothesis because barr has misled the country repeatedly about muellers report. at each stage in the process wh when barr had the opportunity to speak publicly about a subject the country doesnt know about, hes been refuted by facts that came out later. i think this is another example. >> its very interesting. sus susan, mueller made clieear h...

Principles under which we operated. from then 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. now were asking is this a direct contradiction to the attorney general? is that what theyre putting out here? >> yes, it is. >> its really hard to get this directly, but obviously they felt they need to come and...

I listened to the words of bob mueller and it really makes me appreciate sort of the clarity and the directness that bill barr approached this issue. look at, obstruction -- reaching conclusions -- and let me put my prosecutors have back on for a while, i do that for a long, long time -- prosecuting obstruction cases are very difficult. its not like you got 10 kilos in the trunk, okay? arrest, indictment, conviction. obstruction cases are very, very difficult. factually and legally. bill barr an...