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The report and his press conference or statement that the president had committed obstruction of justice. he stated as a double negative. i did not find that the president did not obstruct justice. but what was clearly meant is i did find the president probably did obstruct justice, but i couldnt prosecute him because hes the president. over to you, congress. if he just merely explains that in a clear, coherent way, i think he adds to the important record. as for the staff on staff discussion, i...

Conference or statement that the president had committed obstruction of justice. he stated as a double negative. i did not find that the president did not obstruct justice. but what was clearly meant is i did find the president probably did obstruct justice, but i couldnt prosecute him because hes the president. over to you, congress. if he just merely explains that in a clear, coherent way, i think he adds to the important record. as for the staff on staff discussion, i think has to illuminate ...

He stated as a double negative. i did not find that the president did not obstruct justice. but what was clearly meant is i did find the president probably did obstruct justice, but i couldnt prosecute him because hes the president. over to you, congress. if he just merely explains that in a clear, coherent way, i think he adds to the important record. as for the staff on staff discussion, i think has to illuminate some of the classified information. >> frank, whats the chance you and i looked a...

They did of the mueller report to lay it out for the public in all likelihood did not read 400 pages of reverse back flip double negative language from mueller and his team and want to crystallize the issues in a way that might develop more support for acting on impeachment and they have been systematically stymied in their goal of a clear public narrative and it moved beyond the issue of what the president did to kind of the process issue of the fight for information and they still face the rea...

The dnc, burglary, evidence that that was covered up. here, what do we have? in muellers report, a double negative? cant find he didnt commit obstruction? well, theres no underlying crime. no evidence of obstruction, and mueller is not going to shed any light on that. as i said, i think john deans testimony is clinical theater and i dont think people are going to be riveted to the tv set like they were 40 some odd years ago. >> speed nine set for >> john sale, jason chaffetz, appreciate you comi...

And take a look at this report. >> you know, joyce, as usual, dr. meachum raises some legitimate and pertinent point especially about bob muellers use of language yesterday, sometimes convoluted, the double negative and stuff like that, but in terms of his use of language, one thing stood out to a lot of people. when he was talking about obtaining full and accurate information from every person in terms of conspiracy and collusion and obstruction, and then he said following that, when a subject ...

Which by the way, the advisory is not mandatory -- and he told william barr, the attorney general, not once, not twice, but three times, something completely different. >> sean: by the way, there were witnesses to this. >> he said the opinion had nothing whatsoever to do with my nondecision decision.o so whos telling the truth here? s core argument, this mans core argument that you see on the screen is, we cannot approve the president did not commit obstruction of justice. think about what that ...

Bob mueller was doing what he was asked to do as elise says we can argue about that, but essentially his message was i wrote this report, i undertook this task, i wish you would read it. i do think the biggest headline was that wonderful double negative, you know, if we thought he had not committed a crime we would have said so, which is wonderfully -- you know, if you saw that sentence as an editor you would fix it. its a little too convoluted, but that right there is the point. trump says a pe...

Is made in the mueller report going forward? >> we still have volume ii which the special counsel said clearly in ten instances, the president did not not obstruct justice. he stated it as a double negative. the cheer imme indication is the president broke the law and the president would be facing criminal charges. >> lets talk about the work to be done as a nation. will anything get done? this after all was supposed to be a legit workday. it is not as if our country cant name infrastructure, co...

Trump obstructed justice. and i think that mueller and his team have tried to be very careful to not get drawn into what is a very partisan warfare over what trump did and did not do in office and whether or not he abused that office. >> and back to this question of testimony. for whatever reason, if we dont hear from bob mueller, what does that do to the public case that is made in the mueller report going forward? >> we still have volume ii which the special counsel said clearly in ten instanc...