Doj Cannot Control News Today

Governments within the u.s. elections. >> lauren faugs, thanks so much. >> lets speak more about this now with shan wuand the what correspondent for the guardians. one, legally does mueller have to abide by these doj regulations and also what we know about mueller being a company man, a by a book man, is he likely to. >> i think hes very unlikely to stray outside what would be. interestingly he asked to be subpoenaed and i think the subpoena actually places some more restrictions on him, on your...

A very good tuesday morning to you. im jim sciutto. >> and im poppy harlow. did you get the memo? we are one day out from robert muellers high stakes hearing and speaker pelosi is laying out the game plan for her party. ecpose the presidents alleged crimes, corruption and cover-up. one thing really not mentioned in these documents is impeachment. >> we know the house speaker not in favor of that for now. meanwhile the justice department laying out its own guidelines for mueller warning the speci...

Charged with obstruction of justice. >> can i just ask you, he doesnt work for doj anymore. and he wouldnt break any laws if he breaks that guidance. >> he can talk about anything. but to be fair he has gone in line with the just department within this process. hes conferred with them and stayed within their buoundaries and he did ask for this guidance. the first thing the justice department said in this letter, we are responding to your request for guidance on this. look, we talked about the op...

Theyre scripting questions. they are getting ready. weve also heard that republicans have looked at some old tape of muellers past testimony. hes come to capitol hill more than 80 times since 1990. so a lot on the line tomorrow for democrats. you can expect folks like jerry nadler are going to be pressing mueller to answer the questions they have even despite that guidance that was sent yesterday from the justice department. heres what the chairman of the judiciary committee said earlier today o...

Executive branch. >> shan, so forget bob muellers discomfort. also forget the doj sfruinstrucs to him. theres a very legitimate question here left unclear by the public report. and that is was doj policy preventing indictment of the sitting president or a lack of evidence that held the special counsel from recommending an indictment? thats a fair question that requires clarification, is it not? >> it does. and he tries to clarify in the report, but im hoping if one thing comes out of his testimo...

Jessica schneider joins us now live in washington here. so the doj setting out pretty hard and fast limits here, though mueller is a private citizen. >> thats exactly right. so theyre laying out the bounds of his testimony in this 1 1/2 page letter here. to be fair robert mueller did ask for guidance on how exactly he should testify. so the doj saying very strictly here he needs to stay within the bounds of his public report. really this is something robert mueller was planning to do anyway. in ...