Page 2 - Doj Guidelines News Today

Administrative review to a criminal investigation. it was first reported "the new york times." its being conducted by u.s. attorney john durham. this move gives durham the power to subpoena witness testimony and documents to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges. as the times notes, its likely to raise alarms that president trump again is using the justice department to go after his perceived enemies. at this point its not clear what potential crime hes investigating and a doj spokes...

Based on doj guidelines, that doesnt mean that the congress doesnt have the right to impeach. in fact, that is exactly where it should be taking place. >> congresswoman jackie speier, thank you for your time. really appreciate it. >> thank you, jake. lets chew over this with our experts. amanda, let me start with you. so one of the questions here is about the meeting that president trump had with lewandowski when he told him to tell jeff session, then attorney general, that to instruct session...

Think. >> if that happened, that would be a bombshell. he said, of course, if it werent for the doj guidelines, i would have indict him. we dont think he will say that. >> i do think whats happening really is that shes stuck in this loop and people are very frustrated that there hasnt been more of an investigation and i know people have been basically waiting for mueller and the fact that its taken so long and he had to be subpoenaed to get mueller is adding to the frustration. but i would say w...

Interference activities. on obstruction, mueller says he did not set out to indict the president because of his belief that doing so would go against doj guidelines but did list the obstruction in detail in the report. any action could be taken up by the congress while the president is in office or by the courts after his term is complete. catherine herridge reporting live. so a delay in the testimony, huh? >> shep, earlier today multiple forces told fox news that his testimony would likely be p...

You have members trying to encourage pro impeachment stances, its getting more serious. >> youre having conversations on capitol hill, too, donny. tell us about them. >> let me talk about my point of view as far as this. i talked about it a lot. i think theres a simple solution, not binary choice of impeach or not impeach, a third land, branding lane. take the impeachment word away. the impeachment word ends in the senate. once again you basically, i think the democrats should own trump as a cri...

But thats not to excuse it. >> why couldnt he just say because of the doj guidelines, mueller was not able to go down that road? >> thats the question. look, i think he should have said it the other way. would not have been misleading. because at the him to attorney general made that statement in his press conference, he had all the information and the rest of us in the public trying to understand what are the special counsel had found were at an entire information disadvantage. we didnt know an...

Hive." you say if barr and mueller follow doj restrictions, trump might come out unblemished. how likely after the long investigation the president comes out unscathed? >> you look at doj guidelines and what they say is, you know, one, you cant indict a sitting president. also, you cant disparage publicly an individual who maybe was part of an investigation, but wasnt ultimately charged. i think one of the questions is right now is what behavior robert mueller looked at of the presidents. what h...

Plausible explanation would there be for why they wouldly. >> its not illegal to try to build a condo in moss skou? >> exactly. but here we are, i havent been on your show in seven months and were in exactly the same place. were still not there yet. here is why. okay. according to giuliani mueller is saying im not going to indict the president, but why? why wouldnt you indict the president. >> thats according to giuliani. the part you said according to giuliani, we dont know if thats true. >> ma...

I think mueller knowknows, beca there are russians talking about other data that they had so the u.s. government knows about this. well get answers. >> maybe well get answers in some of the court filings, the continued cases against some of the russians, theyre trying to bring some of them here for trial, there is still michael fli flynn to come up. the president was asked today, bob mueller finishes a report, should the public see it? >> if robert mueller finishes his report, should that be mad...

Never said this is a violation of the federal election laws. how can you be intentionally breaking a law when its been the record of the fec that this is not a violation of the law? you cant have the intent if the fec doesnt consider it a violation? >> intent is a defense. it does not have anything to do with what you are using now as the fec defense. the president can offer a defense and no doubt will, if hes indicted, and he will say he did not know the law. we have seen that a little bit. you...