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Look at the coverage, the reporting, the analysis and the commentary on the mueller report. joining us. ben domenech and richard fowler. we are almost in parallel universes. much of the media has been hammering on day after day make it sounds like the president was in severe danger of indictment and being run out of washington. then you have defenders, some on fox echoing his attacks on bob mueller, and the doj and fbi. ben: i think the media needs to look at itself and ask to your point earlier...

Jr., michael cohen. did the media give the collective impression the president was hiding a disastera dasdardly deed? sara: when you give viewers the impression its going to be bigger than it is. the media will have to figure out what do we do. we see media and anchors use the words the report might disappoint. saying disappoint, isnt that an indictment in itself. howie: peter baker from the "new york times" said its a moment of reckoning. he says have journalists connected too many dots that do...

Have lied to investigators around this. simply because the special counsel could not connect the dots does not mean that the dots dont matter and that the dots arent troubling. we know here that both the russians and the trumps, while they may not have an express or tacit agreement they shared the same goal. which was to subvert our democracy and so in that sense, this is no vindication. more broadly, congress has an oversight function. i spent eight years as the deputy chief counsel of the hous...

>> im doing fine, natalie. hope youre doing well. >> good morning to you. lets talk about the mueller report. finally its here. president trump has been uncharacteristically quiet since the report was released. its too soon to say what the report will ultimately mean for mr. trump but surviving the investigation, without being subpoenaed for a sit-down interview with its special counsel team, thats a significant triumph for trump and his legal team, would you agree? >> no, i think you can turn t...

Conducted below the radar screen, not on national television, hopefully not on information being leaked to the point where its a flood. >> muellers tight -- >> all these dots we now believe dont connect. >> there are lots of unanswered questions. for example, what was the connection between wikileaks and the campaign? does it bother you that the president is the target of this inquiry? >> tonight they moved the goal post. >> donald trump is going to have a very hard time explaining like jared ku...

>> the democrats on the hill start overreaching and launching new investigations, if it seems like theres not a ton of there there. >> do you think impeachment is off the table? >> nancy pelosi took it so clearly took it off the table. she wanted to start this movement -- robert mueller didnt recommend indictments, or there isnt clear evidence, you know, new beyond connecting dots, new evidence that supports articles of impeachment. its going to be very hard, pelosi has drawn a red line, shes sa...

I know its been said countless times. just because there are no additional indictments just as rep conley told you does not mean the president has not committed criminal wrongdoing, does not mean that house judiciary will not proceed are impeachment proceedings. it is a matter of what is exactly in this report. and you know, i think as jerry nadler has said, even if youre just looking at the public record here, there are a lot of dots that sort of point to obstruction of justice. you know, but i...

The clapper report, which is the collection of the intelligence services report on what was going on in the election at that time. that report was primarily about concerns over russian meddling in election processes here and in europe. but at some point that concern about russian meddling or morphed into making donald trump himself the target of the medias investigation. how did that happen. paul: what im going to be looking for, bill, is whether mueller has a narrative that connects a lot of th...

Ago. >> this investigation will be conducted below the radar screen, not on national television, hopefully not on information being leaked to the point where its a flood. >> muellers tight -- >> all these dots we now believe dont connect. >> there are lots of unanswered questions. for example, what was the connection between wikileaks and the campaign? does it bother you that the president is the target of this inquiry? >> tonight they moved the goal post. >> donald trump is going to have a very...

Tweeted mueller was a conflicted prosecutor gone rogue. tonight the president has remained quiet. others call the right. is judge andrew napolitano two years ago. >> this investigation will be conducted below the radar screen, not on national television, not in the halls of congress, hopefully not by information being leaked to the point where it is a flood. >> reporter: muellers tight rein on leaks might explain the disbelief of some cable hosts who were predicting trumps indictment in the repo...