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Night in kentucky. does that jibe with your jb? >> they do believe the party line that this is a biased investigation, its a witch hunt, its a democrats effort to undo the 20 service election, even though of course mueller brought charges against dozens of people and so far everything the whistle-blower has said has been corroborated by testimony. but their faith is not shaken. most have stayed in lock step with a few voices like mitt romney saying they want to be cautious, theyve been disapprov...

Line that this is a biased investigation, its a witch hunt, its a democrats effort to undo the 20 service election, even though of course mueller brought charges against dozens of people and so far everything the whistle-blower has said has been corroborated by testimony. but their faith is not shaken. most have stayed in lock step with a few voices like mitt romney saying they want to be cautious, theyve been disapproving of what the president has said. >> thats one. >> thats one. so theres not...

President committed obstruction of justice. here goes. >> we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> im joined now by natasha bertrand of politico and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney. natasha, thats the big question, the american connection. i want to start with that does the mueller report show that trump and his people were the american connection to the russian interference in the 2016 election? >> oh, absolutely. there were numerous i...

Well see -- this is obviously congress that is not known for discipline. so we can see -- well see whether or not in plan that they are coming up with will work. >> all right. all right thank you very much evan. of course mueller said as everyone know that is he is only talking about whats already in the document. but the whole conversation with bill barr when he talked about whether it was misrepresented. what did i feel was misrepresented? why -- thats an area he could go outside the report th...

Intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee announced they have agreed, the special counsel has agreed to appear in public on july 17th in an open session to testify about the -- what he found as a part of his two-year investigation into russian interference as well as potential obstruction of justice in the white house. now, they say in this letter, both the chairman of this committee, jerry nadler and adam schiff, that they have subpoenaed bob mueller and hes agreed to testify und...

And prosecutors pointed that out saying, well, you know, this is actually maybe going a bit too far because the information is so sensitive and it involves all of these techniques that national security officials used to monitor foreigners. but still it is a court order. so i think we have to wait and see how he reacts to this. >> and, carol, of course mueller referred 14 other matters, 12 of which remain classified. to me the question here is who is now running this case? has it changed hands? ...

As for muellers final warning that russia systematically interfered in the 2016 election barr said, quote, there is an increasingly robust program, end quote, in place to prevent it from happening again in 2020. laura jarrett is live in washington with more on this very revealing interview. >> the attorney general once again this morning trying to explain why he felt the need to issue that four-page memo laying out what he believed were the special counsels principal conclusions ahead of actuall...

Free? >> by the way, it was echoed not word for word but pretty close by the campaign that the trump 2020 campaign and its chairman on twitter. that message is nothing to see here, folks, move along. and i expect that that will continue to be their message and that is their message to congress right now. youre not going to get anything out of special counsel mueller if you call him, youre only inviting a bunch of frustration and an anti-climax, so dont do it. this -- and obviously, the president...

Interest in cohen. >> its very interesting because of course muellers mandate was to look at the connection to potential interference. they were looking at the campaign. cohen wasnt really a part of the campaign formally. i think they focussed on him so early because he was so close to the president and he did have personal russia ties. he was negotiating the trump tower moscow deal. im not so surprised that mueller and his team focussed on cohen in the early days even though he didnt have an of...

Investigation. this is the last time that were going to hear them speak in court. what this means for them, keep in mind that paul manafort was the center, was really the center of this investigation for quite some time. this is now coming to an end. hearing from prosecutors in court, you can sense they know the meaning of this and what this means for them and really for this entire investigation now as it comes to an end. >> o >> reporter: our producer inside said andrew weissman seemed a littl...