Couldnt Exonerate News Today

>> all right, mayor, i appreciate your time. sfr denver. and lets to patrick healy political editor at the "new york times." i want to start with the big picture here. you have this social media summit, right, that is -- was extremists. you have the immigration raids which obviously if youre really raiding and targeting you wouldnt announce. the a an executive order to collect data. all coming days before muellers big testimony. and we certainly dont know everything he is going to say but you he...

A person wrote a consequential report saying on the record -- i couldnt exonerate the president of the united states of committing a crime. that is an incredibly powerful moment to have in a congressional hearing. and so i think it is all about scoring political points. but for the democrats, its getting that testimony on the record. and disagree with my friend julia ainslie, who is always right about everything. i have always thought from the beginning we would always get robert muellers testim...

Subpoenas, law enforcement agents, lawyers, whatever they needed. and the investigation clearly showed not a single american kohl youded with russia to affect the 2016 election. the american people want us to move on. the democrats are insistent upon impeachment. im standing will making sure that they are held accountable for these axe actions that are not warranted. >> to his point on obstruction. >> the president was duly elected by the american people. >> absolutely true. but to his point on ...

Even any kind of characterization of guilt because he cant defend himself. >> i couldnt disagree more. i think that what bob mueller did in that statement to be standing at a podium with the department of justice logo in the back talk about i couldnt exonerate the president. when did it become the job of any prosecutor to exonerate someone? people have the presumption of innocence, prosecutors speak to their filings. he had the chance to call it. maybe the government wouldnt prosecute because of...

I think with good reason to publicize it. we had an inquiry were justice department rules and constitutional interpretation left an actual judgment of guilt off the table. all that was left to say is we couldnt exonerate. if you look carefully including at the reported is pretty clear the conduct mueller has found is obstruction any day of the week, any court in the land, any other person except the president. finally, this attack on muellers integrity, fantasyland, nobody knows mueller credits ...

>> lets talk about the white house. they claim trump has been exonerated. thats not what mueller said. does the public need clarification? >> not really. what mueller said its the exact opposite. of what mueller said. if you read things carefully. it really does theres no other conclusion. they know how to get to the probable cause and indictable standard. and said we couldnt exonerate. they werent are we close and on the border. they went over and knew that meant they couldnt. the most they cou...

He didnt say that. on your premise, he should have said that exactly for the reasons you said. you spent all that money and couldnt exonerate speaks loudly to me. but thank you for being with me, congressman bill johnson of ohio. >> thank you very much. coming up, president trump has a history of -- how tariffs on chinese imports impact the waltz of american consumers. ill dig into that next. intrnow at outback.plete steakhouse dinner, get your choice of soup or salad, entrée like our signatu...