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That. when they were bemoaning the fact that attorney general barr wasnt being cooperative but the justice department did provide a number of documents that they requested pertaining to obstruction issues that they wanted to get their hands on, it was ignored. it was oh, yeah, yeah. yo cooperated but that doesnt matter. this is a slippery slope. >> it is. youre saying you have to have the information, your papers to do your congressional oversight, which i value, the problem is if you wont accep...

That. >> by the end of june? >> im not going to comment. i dont know. >> my job to ask the questions but i respect that you have a process going. i wonder what is important for the congress to probe from the mueller report. we talked a little about the issues in volume ii. mcgahn and those obstruction issues. are there other things that concern you especially given with attorney general barr when we read about the way the president demanded things. personal loyalties and other things from law en...

Happening. this all signaled to moscow that trump didnt mind. were not talking about that. were talking about obstruction issues, issues about turning things over, and bill barr is out there saying no, the real thing is how this investigation began. not what it produced, but how it began. so i think trump and the republicans have turned circles around the democrats and have turned this whole story upside down and its become a process story. were fighting over who is going to testify where and --...

States. im including jefferson davis in that, like -- but this suit, this is the way that you put donald trump under oath, talking about his sexual misconduct. if he lies, he ends up exactly where bill clinton ended up. and people forget, bill clinton was smart. donald trump forgets the subject before he gets to the predicate. i know republicans dont like me to remind them of bill clinton, but this is what bill clinton got impeached for. getting cute under oath about sexual misconduct. and now a...

The impeachment word and obviously, andrea, this is laying the ground for a potential impeachment inquiry down the road. >> they are looking at obstruction issues. kristen, one of the questions that michael cohen was asked was what was your left conversation with the president and he said it was after the raid at his hotel apartment and his other house and when asked what did you talk about? he said that is under investigation by the southern district of new york. it seems as though there is a p...

District. as michael cohen said yesterday, they are handling financial issues, perhaps fraud issues, insurance issues and so forth. >> lots of issues underway based on what we heard from michael cohen yesterday. what do you need to follow up on when cohen returns to testify before your committee next wednesday? >> theres actually still a good bit of stuff that we need to go over. basically, there are three buckets of things that we have been dealing with. the obstruction issues, the money launde...

Investigation like this? >> well, certainly very rare. we know that richard nixon faced impeachment and therefore was impeached by the house, didnt face senate trial and resigned in a deal that was negotiated because he was under investigation. agnew resigned after being under fbi investigation and after they proved that they had the goods on him, taking cash inside the white house. we dont know the details of this. nbc news has not indentally confirmed this but we know certainly that robert mue...

Current justice department doctrine. if mueller believes that trump is obstructing justice and presents a report to congress, theres very little that barr did can do about that. and there is a legal argument to be made that trump had an absolute right to fire the fbi director and, therefore, mueller cant question that. i think thats a minority view but appears to be mr. barrs view. its not clear that it will affect what robert mueller ultimately does. >> let me come back to you to wrap up final ...

Announced his entire senior staff the president asked him to stay on through 2020. and that he agreed to stay on through 2020. over the summer, it was one of these periods of rumors that kelly was about to leave. there had been rumors about that all along the time of kellys tenure as chief of staff. >> there had been like some really loud -- exchanges. >> kelly said yes, ill stay on. the president might have asked me to stay longer but im exciting through 2020. you have to wonder what has led to...

Testifying before the tv cameras under oath and the mueller report on this should have been out a long time ago. you know, there were a discreet set of actions taken in a short period of time in the first month or so of donald trumps presidency. it doesnt take two years to uncover the facts on those. all of the key witnesses could have been questioned, and should have testified in public by now and we should have answers on all of these matters by now. >> except for one. i mean, brother mike is ...