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The written report. you talked about the exchange that you had with congressman lieu. i wrote it down a little different, i want to ask you about it so the director is perfectly clear. i recorded that he ask you, "the reason you did not indict donald trumps because of the olc opinion stating you cannot indict a sitting president," to which he responded, "that is correct." that respond is inconsistent. i think you will agree with your written report. i want to be clear that its not your intent to...

Nevertheless, the president picked that guy to be his top national security official. i mean, i know this will probably be a tiny footnote in the history of even just this insane year of this insane presidency, but honestly, that deserves its own full chapter. that would be the kind of thing that would, like, destroy a whole other presidency. but in this one its like, oh yeah, that happened. right. and you might remember, in mike flynns own case, he recently traded in his sort of normal lawyers ...

Misconduct, end quote. for the nonlawyers in the room, what did you mean by, quote, potentially preempt constitutional processes? >> im not going to try to explain that. >> that actually is coming from page one of volume ii in the footnote is the reference to this. what are those constitutional processes? >> i think i heard you mention at least one. >> impeachment. correct? >> im not going to comment. >> okay. that is one of the constitutional processes listed in the report in the footnote in vo...

>> some construed a change to the written report. you talked about the exchange you had with congressman lieu. i wrote it down a little bit different. i want the record to be perfectly clear. he asked you, quote, the reason you did not indict donald trump is because of the olc opinion stating you cannot indict a sitting president, to which you responded, that is correct. that response is inconsistent, i think youll agree, with your written report. i want to be clear. it is not your intent to cha...

And then even after that was notified to the presidential transition and the trump administration -- the incoming trump administration, the trump transition knew it, that flynn had been on a foreign governments payroll, nevertheless, the president picked that guy to be his top national security official. i mean, i know this will probably be a tiny footnote in the history of even just this insane year of this insane presidency, but, honestly, that deserves its own full chapter. that would be the ...

For the nonlawyers in the room, what did you mean by "potentially preempt constitutional processes?" >> im not going to try to explain that. >> that actually is coming from page 1 of volume to 2. in the footnote, what are those constitutional processes? >> i think i heard you mention at least one. >> impeachment, correct? >> im not going to comment. >> okay. that is one of the constitutional processes listed in the report in the footnote in volume 2. your report documents the many ways the presi...

Trying to guide them that way, to have almost rehearsal sessions with him. but id like to add a footnote about what has been said about the letter that now restricts him. if you look at the enough regulations of the department that came out during the trump administration, its now call the justice manual, first of all, a former employee who is subpoenaed as mueller asked to be in this case, is considered under these regulations and those regulations indeed restrict what he can say. so it almost ...

Staying within the confines he expected to stay within. i agree with jeff. hes never going to say the president would be indicted. its just not mueller and it not what hes written in the report. i dont think that was ever on the table. this may be more about making sure that he does go even outside of the strict parameters that mueller himself would already have. >> basically it seems like a democratic strategy. he claims its not going to be a lot of people making public statements and a lot of ...

General? thats the two biggest questions and they dont want him to answer that. a spokesperson said he wanted to stay in the walls of the report and doesnt want to go further than that. look at his press conference about 10 minutes with no questions see an example of what he wants to bring to the house. that said, they will try to go beyond the report because they want to get the answers for the american people. this is the doj officially telling robert mueller you cant answer all the questions ...

And you punted to the attorney general? thats the two biggest questions and they dont want him to answer that. a spokesperson said he wanted to stay in the walls of the report and doesnt want to go further than that. look at his press conference about 10 minutes with no questions see an example of what he wants to bring to the house. that said, they will try to go beyond the report because they want to get the answers for the american people. this is the doj officially telling robert mueller you...