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Special counsel to complete his work. >> but there were several other times during yesterdays confirmation hearing when the presidents nominee for attorney general, william barr, avoided making commitments about how he would conduct himself related to the mueller investigation and the presidents conduct. >> will you commit to make public all of the reports conclusions, the mueller report, even if some of the evidence supporting those conclusions cant be made public? >> you know, that certainly i...

Didnt answer any of the hard questions about it. watch him wiggle out of every single one of these. >> will you commit to make public all of the reports conclusions, the mueller report even if some of the evidence supporting those conclusions cant be made public? >> you know, thats certainly is my goal and intent. >> will you commit that you will explain to us any changes of de deletes you make in whatever you present to us? >> i will commit to providing as much information as i can consistent w...

Into doing anything wrong. that said, he left unanswered questions. one of which is will he follow the advice of justice department ethics officials if they instruct him that he should recuse himself because of the case that hes made against the mueller investigation in that memo he submitted to trumps lawyers. a second big question is will he do anything to impede mueller if he goes to the attorney general asking for a major investigative step such as issuing a subpoena to the president. would ...

In the last 48 hours because of the reporting, the suspicion fundamentally of the loyalties of the commander and chief for the head of state. >> listen, im not going to jump to any conclusions. but i think we can recap what we know factually. we know in a bipartisan way our senate investigation showed russians massively interfered in 2016 in our campaign to help trump and hurt clinton. we know while he was willing to criticize virtually every other world leader, he was not willing to criticize v...

Conclusions, the mueller report, even if some of the evidence supporting those conclusions cant be made public? >> you know, that certainly is my goal and intent. >> will you commit that you will explain to us any changes or deletions that you make to the special counsel report thats submitted to you in whatever you present to us? >> i will commit to providing as much information as i can, consistent with the regulations. >> you said that a president deliberately impairing the integrity or avail...

Hearing back in 1973. similar context, similar concerns. and bill barr did not make the same cooped of unequivocal commitments that elliott richardson did. he did not make the unequivocal statement that he would be allowed to have the investigation going where it leads. he didnt make what i was hoping for, which is an unequivocal commitment to share with the committee, the fruits of robert muellers labors a final report. he didnt make a commitment that he would seek and follow the conclusions of...

Investigating something that related to president -- someone who had a relationship with president bush, i could just orient them that there is going to be a story tomorrow that says this. but in that particular case, there was no chance that it would affect the investigation. so sometimes judgment calls are necessary. >> if you learn that the white house, not directly through you but through other means, was attempting to interfere with the investigation, would you report that information to th...

Conclusions before knowing the fact and whether you prejudged the mueller investigation. i hope you will make that clear today. it also raises a number of serious questions about your views on executive authority and whether the president is, in fact, above the law. for example, you wrote the president -- and i quote -- alone is the executive branch. as such, he is the sole repository of all executive powers conferred by the constitution. thus, the full measure of law enforcement authority is pl...

Later wrote a letter saying that based on the discovery of clinton e-mails on the weiner laptop that they were reopening t the investigation that he announced closed. days before the general election said we didnt find anything on the laptop that would change my conclusions. did you find that to be an extraordinary and unprecedented event? >> the whole sequence was hurricany jerky and bizarre. at that time i was a little contrarien in that i basically took the position that once he did what he d...

Were there influences in the election manafort and others fed into. that series of things we have here all laid out before us, all-in-one way or another subject to conclusions but not, i think, informed conclusions until we see what this apparently very careful, very capable investigation will show. >> you dont want to speculate, and i understand that completely. we no longer have to speculate what the president said in terms of nato. you alluded to this "new york times" report overnight. it is ...