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To what you heard from the senator there. im told you have some thoughts about obstruction of justice and rod rosensteins role in it. >> i wanted to talk to the criticism of the senator whitehouse and making the question, how could william barr have decided in 48 hours president trump didnt have the intent to obstruct justice when mueller was looking at it for two years and couldnt decide. part of the answer is rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general also participated in that decision, barr ...

Campaign managers, deputy campaign manager, his lawyer, papadopoulos, stone, all these people were having contact. the question for me remains was he compromised? why does he say he believes putin over the against community and leaving nato that puts our national security at jeopardy. why wont he release his tax returns and why were they so hell bent getting the trump tower in moscow. i think the house needs to move forward to answer these questions. >> is he compromised? the line in the report ...

First. i spent over a dozen years of my life at the justice department, worked under bush 1 and republican and democratic administrations and investigated and prosecuted a number of cases in involving allegations of corruption and other wrongdoing of public officials. when we close a case, sometimes we close cases and close a case at times because we couldnt prove beyond a reasonable doubt the allegations we put forth. there are so many unanswered questions, one thing clearly answered from this ...

Wasnt just, we dont have enough evidence to file a conspiracy charge, we dont have evidence of coordination with the russians. thats a big deal because for two years we have been pointing at things in that direction. robert mueller took a look with the 2800 subpoenas and 500 search warrants, this wasnt the mueller report, the barr summary of the mueller report, we dont know how long it is. short of a criminal conspiracy, what about trumps conduct and russia contacts and the lying? what explains ...

>> he is typically, true, in the complete vindication, he looks forward to reviewing the additional information. how do you see this playing out on the hill? >> theres a couple things. we as americans should be happy that the special counsel said there was no collusion. that is a good thing for our democracy and our public. if it was the other thing, we would be sitting here talking about how a foreign power tried to influence and colluded with an actual nominee for a major political party to wi...

Fine. we still dont have an answer whether or not hes compromised and why has he been so deferential to the russian president or any other autocratic leader. we still dont know. thats the counter-intelligence person to this. >> thats not in the purview of what a special counsel does. >> no. youre totally right. >> this is a legal question. if there are people in intelligence circles have other view, thats their prerogative. i am curious why the obama administration in the last six months of its ...

Against himself and would have delayed the investigation. there is a question about why mueller punted on the obstruction question. he deferred the question to his superiors at the department of justice and in doing so subverted why he was appointed independent of donald trump because he wasnt hired by donald trump. william barr was hired by donald trump, and they ended up making the decision to legally clear donald trump of obstruction. that will be a question going forward. it wasnt just barr,...

To the attorney general or at least the deputy attorney general. however, the whole reason there is a special counsel appointed in this case is that because the presidents top appointees have a conflict of interest. they are answerable to the president. they are political appointees. now, it doesnt mean they dont have the right to review muellers decision on obstruction of justice. robert mueller, unlike kenneth starr and other independent counsels, was an employee of the department of justice. ...

As much as the mueller report is only beginning its journey, perhaps to congress, to the public. so, too, are the political battles. >> and so, nicolle, on the political side of things, that just goes right to the base and everybody stays in their partisan bubbles. >> well see. this is a republican party led by men who were front and center with very strong words and very strong opinions about obstruction of justice when the president in question was bill clinton. it took me three minutes to put...

Attempts by these folks. this is -- katy, as we know, this is what donald trump does, overexaggerates everything, whatever it is. and this is the pr head start that essentially the trump administration -- the president is getting, thanks to the fact that his attorney general that made this assessment. and this is where democrats are in a huge box here. were all taking bill barrs word for the -- clearly, robert mueller found troubling evidence on the obstruction question. because he could not com...