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Successful in creating the narrative around no collusion for the whole mueller investigation. im not sure this is exactly the same, but well see. >> i hear you. jessica schneider, what is your read? >> i want to jump in because the president is saying effectively no obstruction and hes saying that that conclusion came from the mueller report. that incident exactly true. it was more the attorney general bill barr who, when he read muellers report and then issued his own report to congress summari...

Come to a conclusion on obstruction is because the current guidelines with the department of justice does not allow an indictment of a sitting president. so they concluded that it wasnt even appropriate to even put out any possibility, any charges if this couldnt go forward in any sort of indictment or trial. i mean, robert mueller put it this way, said if we had confidence that the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so. so its important to note that distinction there between t...

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The dangling of that pardon to him in volume two that is described as one of the potentially criminally obstructive acts by the president. if the president is now going to grant flynn the pardon, that means the obstruction investigation, the investigation, the president potentially being implicated in that, trying to effect what he might say to investigators, trying to interfere with any investigation flynn might be helping with. that makes the obstruction issue live once again. at todays open h...

Suspenseful element to the weird case of mike flynn, right? but it also means the case of mike flynn is not a historical case. its not over. the reason mike flynn features so prominently in volume 2 of the mueller report, its about his contacts with the russians in volume 1, but the dangling of that pardon to him, in volume 2, that is described as one of the potentially criminally obstructive acts by the president. if the president is now going to grant flynn the pardon, that means the obstructi...

Available, as manu reported last night. they came over to the justice department, theyve seen at least one document. the tricky part is going to be the fact that nadler has requested a whole bunch of notes that former white house officials have taken and also fbi interview notes, known as 302s with some of the witnesses in the mueller investigation related to the obstruction issue. and so the white house may have a chance to look at those documents before any lawmakers get a chance to and if tha...

A man who cannot literally cannot tell the truth. at one point in the book, steve says -- i described steve as saying, i cannot tell you how many times he has looked me in the eye and lied to me. >> yet, hes still devoted to him in some ways? >> well, hes still -- its a weird devotion. its love-hate, or its, you know, repulsion, attraction. you know, remember, steve made donald trump president, donald trump made, transformed steve into a voice in the world. >> back to the obstruction issue. the ...

>> yet, hes still devoted to him in some ways? >> its a weird devotion. its love-hate or its in you know repulgs, attraction. you know, remember, steve made donald trump president, donald trump made, transformed steve into a voice in the world. >> back to the obstruction issue. the reason i was asking if you think steve bannon thinks the president obstructed justice. you write bannon saying, never send a marine to do a hit mans job. hes talking about robert mueller. i wasnt sure what that meant....

This relationship, they real -- there was no relationship between the special counsels office and the department of justice. when you think about it, when you see how things are starting to play out now, you have to wonder, well, what were these communications between rod rosenstein overseeing the investigation and the mueller team? it would seem like there wasnt a lot of good communication. they were surprised, the attorney general said that he was surprised by a lot of what mule der and that t...

>> reporter: good morning, dave and michelle. after two years of silence on his investigation special counsel robert mueller appeared before the cameras wednesday and he chose his words carefully, clearly stating that he did not clear president trump of obstruction of justice. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. >> mueller explained that char...