Declination Decision News Today

Hur and also a letter to Merrick Garland . Objection. And with that, mr. Chairman, i see my time has expired and i yield back gentlelady yields back the chair is recognized. Mr. Her, why do you do it . Why did joe biden your words willfully retained and disclosed, classified materials . I mean, he knew the law in an office like 50 years five decades in the United States senate, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, eight years as Vice President , he got briefed every day as Vice Pr...

Recommended charges against joe biden today, he tried to explain why he did not tried. The lead starts right now the report by Special Counsel robert hur, ripped apart today On Capitol Hill republicans questioning why no charges. Despite a report finding joe biden knowingly mishandled classified documents, democrats on the other hand, accusing her of Playing Politics with lines in his report about bidens age and memory what did todays hearing really achieved . Well talk to a democrat who was in ...

classified documents. the special counsel found evidence that president biden, quote, willfully retaineds classified materials found no reason to press criminal charges. drew distinction between the criminal probe of handling of documents and his findings regarding president biden. the long standing justice department priniple that you cannot indict a sitting president does not apply and would not bring charges even if joe biden were no longer president. well have more on that later in...

Generations yet unborn, we have got to guard this moment. This is our watch. And again, i am soso very proud of the Judiciary Committee, i am so very, very proud of the Intelligence Committee because they went in and tried to pull out the facts so that they could paint the picture so that america could see it. And hopefully, they will not be ladies like the lady at amashs town hall meeting who said they didnt know that there was something wrong that trump did with regard in this Mueller Report. ...

That. on volume one, you did. on volume two with respect to potential obstruction of justice, the special counsel made neither a prosecution decision or a declination decision. it was not authorized to be written. it was written to a legal standard that does not. ist. >> as you watch this, are those who might be critical of the trumped aminu ed -- >> he will obviously, if he is the nominee, have to answer those questions. there have been reports that someone named fred flight had

Illegitimate exercise and as if the president was their client. forget the congressional job of oversight of the executive. >> i dont think that is fair at all and what we did is make it clear to the american people what the mueller report found and esther mueller confirmed it. he found no collusion between the trump campaign and russia, he stated that multiple times because it is in the report multiple times and when pressed on obstruction he stated because i even asked him you cant make up thi...

Report, the very first line of your report says, as you read this morning, it authorizes the special counsel to provide the attorney general with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the special counsel. thats the very first word of your report, right? >> thats correct. >> heres the problem, director. the special counsel didnt do that. on volume 1 you did. on volume 2 with respect to potential obstruction of justice, the special counsel made neithe...

Forth. and i think pressing bob mueller with respect to why you did not give the president of the united states any benefit of the doubt at all. the final question i would say, you really wrote this for congress, and you had no authority to do that. you are no authority to do that. you were to write a confidential report to the attorney general of the united states explaining your prosecution decisions and your declination decision. your whole second part goes way beyond anything that you were a...

Decades and its, you know, one historic investigation because it actually does bring into play this memo from dojs secretive and powerful office of legal counsel that says you cant charge a president. so while bill barr can say why cant you make a charging decisi decision, why didnt you make declination decision, mueller cant see past and as he argues shouldnt see past this hard and fast internal doj rule that he wasnt allowed even to think about what bill barr has now said he was supposed to ad...

Will make those based solely on the law and i will not let personal, political or other improper interests influence my decision. >> what are you looking for to make sure that is the case as we go forward? >> i think its got to be almost the entire mueller report except for the limited exceptions. i think anything short of that will be seen as a smacking of a cover up, and inconsistent with the transparency he promised. theres certainly no regulation. special counsel regulations dont forbid it o...