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And then mueller also says in the report, i cant indict a sitting president and indeed, i cant even label him a criminal. heres why this is significant. barr just last month, in an interview said, quote, i personally think mueller could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. so the game has changed now. the rules have changed. now mueller is free next week to answer the question he thought he couldnt answer when he wrote the report, which is did you think donald trump co...

Mr. mueller trump says that you found no obstruction. is that true? question number two. trump says that you found no collusion. is that true? question number three, did your report totally exonerate the president? yes or no. simple. >> we talked to a lot of people about that stuff. i havent heard someone lay it out as you did. put the own us on him to do the rebutting and keep it in the narrow landscape of yes or no, mr. mueller. >> you dont need the inner comey. we just need americans to focus...

His public statements and testimony. number three, i thought it was interesting at the dinner comey told the dinner, i dont leak and then later testified that he did, in fact, leak. >> according to a law enforcement guy here he said thats technically not a legal. he said legally its not a leak. >> well go with that for now. finally, the most eye popping passage, the president of the united states wants to throw reporters in jail, subject them to symptom kind of sexual abuse apparently, but then ...

A little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? turns out, its californians its me and its you. dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing. breaking news just hours away from fired fbi director jim comeys must watch testimony before congress. comey will take hours of questions from senators on capitol hill. and out front now is the man who was one of...

Feels totally vindicated. this is a little bit of an unusual relationship to see the republican national committee sort of playing the rapid response effort for the white house because the white house could be at the zmaerlt of this investigation and so they they would have felt better standing up this arrangement allowing the committee to spearhead this response. the thats what were going to continue to see on the hill tomorrow. >> thank you very much. lets go to republican senator susan collin...

The specifics of conversation wsz the president of the united states? >> woir default position is that when theres an investigation, we do not discuss it publicly. it. >> it would not be appropriate for me, sir, to discuss issues that are potentially within the purr screw of the special counsels investigation. >> you of course also have an investigation. its an important one. do you feel frustrated? why do they even bother to show up if theyre going to say that? how do you feel about that? >> we...

I want to read the quote for you all about what jim comey says happened with the flynn investigation. all right. just to get your full analysis. this is obviously going to be one of the most crucial parts of this along with, of course, the loiltd pledge and the president not being under investigation. here it is. i had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigation of flynn in weks with false statements about his conversations with the russian ambassador in december. i ...

My practice forward. this has not been my practice in the past. nine meetings with the president-elect in a few months. just two with president obama in three and a half years. how significant is the fact that he went down after that first meeting and did that in the fbi vehicle? >> its highly significant because its contemporaneously done. he went to sessions and said never leave me in a room alone with the president and if sessions, you know, verifies that that really speaks to the veracity of...

In terms of whether or not trump operatives were in collusion with the russians in terms of trying to influence the election. the question really before us is the president has the president obstructed justice by hounding, literally hounding the then-director james comey about dropping the investigation of flynn. its also interesting to remember, when flynn first offered himself up to the two committees to tell his story, he says i have a story to tell. >> right. >> soon there after you have did...

Briefing and without him directly asking the question, i thaufrd assurance that he was not under fbi counterintelligence probe. the second time, in a dinner on january 27th, comey says the president told him he was considering ordering an investigation into the dossier. comey says, quote, i replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigatesing him personally, which we werent. and in a march 30th phone call comey quote complained we had ...