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But you saw that mr. barr wont come before our committee because he is absolutely -- >> robert mueller may come before your committee. no date set for him to testify, though, at this point in time. what is the hold up? >> i know that there are conversations from judiciary staff directly with mr. muellers staff. >> is it just logistics? what is your, whats your impression? what are you being told about what the hang up is? >> we know one of the big hang ups is the fact that the president a week a...

Obviously the special counsel said there was none. >> but it doesnt explain a lot of the bread crumbs that were spread out throughout the filings. why did paul manafort share polling data with a russian intel agent? why did rod rosenstein say in his memo that was unredacted that mueller account investigation collusion as it pertained to manafort and his meetings with russians? it didnt answer a lot of those questions weve had on the team, and that, i think, is what democrats are going to be pres...

Bill barr and rod rosensteins decision not bob muellers decision. >> and bill barr had previously said it was a fatally misconceived investigation, before he was the attorney general, and the democrats pounced on that. remember during his confirmation hearing, that was a big point of contention. if you read it closely, page three of the memo, in some ways he is exonerated by his hand-picked attorney general. i think the attorney general put that line in that the special counsel states that while...

Russia, right before that it says that, yes, russian government actors did hack into democratic e-mails, not only from the dnc but also from the clinton campaign. so saying that democrats did collude with russia as the president has said throughout the last year or so would seem to fly in the face of that. >> and its important to note that in this four-page letter, the attorney general sent to congress, the attorney general quotes from the mueller report and says -- and this is from the mueller ...

Doesnt exonerate him from when he turned against this country. >> both michael flynn and his lawyer, and its clear the judge inside that courtroom, felt that michael flynn was not trapped. michael flynn was asked outright were you trapped by the fbi. his answer was no. i want to ask you a question about an issue thats very important to you, and i think should be close to all americans. an american citizen seemed to die in a syrian prison, likely execu executed. >> yeah. this is something that ju...

If anything, it shows bias on the part of the f.b.i. >> melissa: richard, you heard republicans there say no, it doesnt exonerate him entirely. that there still is a lot of trail to follow here. in terms of who cooperated. what do you think? >> i disagree with brad. in the package we saw there you saw trey gowdy, the republican, who has seen the underlying classifications. he saw the documents. nunes has not seen the document and nunes and his staff who authored the memos might have seen the doj...

Hes innocent until proven guilty. he argues there is no law on the books in the commonwealth of virginia that he violated which doesnt exonerate him from federal statutes. he says this is a case of trying to prosecute public officials for doing good deeds for people and receiving generosity and gifts that were just the nature of human relations with your public figure. it will be a big test where those rules lie and what the law says. martha: carl, thank you very much. bill: new video showing gr...

Years for that. now, i dont think that is going to happen in this case but certainly, he does face criminal exposure and it is a serious situation for him. >> okeefe videotaped the episode on his cell phone camera. there was also another camera, he said, in the hard hat of one of the guys dressed up as a telephone repairman. he was asked what people would think if they saw his tapes. watch. >> this is a huge misunderstanding, i think. we are -- like in all my videos, like in my eight corn videos...

I -- when i spent the night in jail, i was trying to figure out what -- what i possibly did wrong. we had a plane to catch the following morning so i had no idea, you know -- i really did not think we broke any laws and i was just completely, you know, i think this is sort of a misunderstanding. >> joining us now is attorney and former prosecutor paul callen. paul, he doesnt think he possibly did anything wrong. what do you make of that? >> well, rip torn probably thought the same thing when he ...

Lies or misleading statements made by the president this morning. so our big question is -- why are republican leaders okay with the president of the united states lying? nbcs kristen welker is at the white house. she was one of the reporters who spoke with the president this morning. ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and an msnbc political analyst. and eli stokols is...