Couldnt Indict News Today

A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Matter. The Justice Department guidelines preclude indicting a sitting president. Michael cohen in his own words defying his long time ally. He has said he would take a bullet for President Trump. And now hes publicly saying in court under oath that he committed these crimes in coordination and at the direction of the then candidate. Very specific words. Could cohen still cooperate with the Special Counsel Robert Muellers overa...

America. We talk about testing of the guardrails. In most cases the guardrails of democracy have held up. In this case we might find out that bill barr broke one of those guardrails and we are still dealing with it. All right. This is as good a place to end as any. My thanks today to joyce, frank, matt. That does it for this hour. Thank you so much for watching not just this hour but all day long. Were grateful to all of you. Mtp daily with my friend chuck todd starts now. Well, if its wednesday...

Says you couldnt indict a president while in office. hopefully, that is one of the many reforms we will take up in a post-trump era. but after he leaves officer, if there is enough evidence to charge him for either federal crimes or new york state trooims crimes, you bet he can be indicted. >> always great to have you here on this morning. thanks so much for your time. >> thanks, dara. well, next, early numbers on friday shopping. is it still the busiest shopping day of the year? y of the year...

Happen, and this is going to blow up trump. and stuff is going on behind the scenes. mueller is putting together a massive map of the obstruction and the russian collusion and somethings going to happen. and theres going to be indictments, and, man, trump is scared and the white house is terrified. and mueller came out with a report, he did not -- he could not establish a line of connection between the russians and the trump campaign. and then he did not feel comfortable saying that justice was ...

>> i want to bring in neal katyal and legal an. . its interesting that the interpretation, robert mueller spoke with a lot. restraint and finally parsed and. ly to the script. what he had written. what. doing. unmistakable. a rare moment. consensus. . understood what robert mueller did. request. >> exactly. its so clear that the two things he chose to pluck out. his hundreds. pages. report were number one, i couldnt indict the president so dont say you are cleared because i. couldnt do it under ...

Due respect to bob mueller, when he was appointed, he knew the office of legal counsel opinions were there. he knew that going in and he still took the job. the code of federal regulations say he shall decide. it didnt say he may. so i think it was his obligation to decide, even though he couldnt indict the president, he could have said i cant indict him, but i think he committed a crime. or i cant indict him and i think he didnt commit a crime. not to punt on that. >> there are a lot of people ...

>> i want to bring in neal katyal and legal an. its interesting that the interpretation, robert mueller spoke with a lot. restraint and finally parsed and. ly to the script. what he had written. what. doing. unmistakable. a rare moment. consensus. understood what robert mueller did. >> exactly. its so clear that the two things he chose to pluck out. his hundreds. pages. report were number one, i couldnt indict the president so dont say you are cleared because i. couldnt do it under doj policy. n...

That the evidence was of obstruction if you couldnt indict and the president couldnt defend himself in court. the whole of the report and that public statement by mueller was an invitation to the democrats in congress to proceed with impeachment. thats a much bigger cloud than the suggestion of obstruction. >> bill: here is one more sound bite from cbs on the shredding of institutions in washington, d.c. >> one of the iron east today say its president trump shredding our institutions. from my pe...

His testimony, that issue came up and that bob mueller said that this was not the appropriate case on which -- >> neil: could he have used different words? could he have said i cant indict a sitting president whatever but i can find this behavior -- he seems guilty -- >> look, he was mindful of exactly what got james comey into trouble. youre not going to charge somebody. on the way out the door, youre going to say the conduct was careless. >> neil: that can be worse. >> exactly. with regard to ...

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...