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Gives an unsupportable view of the facts and the law, and then finally, besides playing in that respect, it actually gives the -- the real problem here on the number one thing that screams out, they determined that there should have been a bottom-line determination, mueller had determined not. why, then, not give it to mueller and its clear from one line in the memo, its because they really didnt trust his bottom line conclusion if he were asked to give one. so, it was taken from him and given t...

Its a serious, serious thing. >> charl leonnig for your reporting and for starting us off today. ben and neal are sticking around. when we come back, the news that broke in this hour yesterday. then attorney generals bill barrs justification for clearing donald trump of obstruction and well get more reaction to that and what the justice departments spin by barr unleashed in the years that followed. plus the number three house republican went all in on backing some extreme republican candidates t...

And more and more. so he is given the doj an opportunity to just slap him around and make the magistrate come through. this has been revealed, we can do it in a more electrical way. so, that is a long way of answering your question. the main point is, obligation, whether or not he needs to return right away, and any of us would. you see documents like that, your heads bins if theyre outside of the scale. you may not continue to conceal them and i about them. if you do, you are looking at 20 year...

Are just crazy. i think that gives us a counting and sensitivity of the documents put out in mar-a-lago. in january, they went back two separate times. the one thing that does stand out to me the potential obstruction and lays out the ways that the justice department had to go to get the documents. when you read that in tandem with the filing on monday you see how the justice department every effort to get the documents back. the fact that the documents were listed on the search warrant when exe...

Mcgahn being asked by the president to deny that he ever asked or ordered the firing of robert mueller, the special counsel. >> which was a lie. >> which was not true. you go through this analysis in this memo, which basically kind of comes up with different excuses for why trump didnt really mean what he said. in the end, what you see in this memo is that bill barr and his aides have decided that because there was no evidence enough to bring charges related to collusion between the trump campai...

Doozy because it had been kept under wraps and the department of justice thought even giving it to the district court for her to read, there is a reason when she read it that her decision was that this needs to be made public. the court of appeals agreed with her. now to the substance. why did they try and keep this under wraps? there is a sentence in here that is astounding to me. the two senior staff say to bill barr that the reason he should make the decision is because if the memo comes out ...

? nicole, recall that the search warrant listed three statutes that the government had in mind when they went to the judge and asked to do this search and again, they may have been thinking about ten statutes, but they listed three of them and one of them, the espionage act citation involved the possibility of transmitting defense information and information important to the security of others and that might cover the kinds of scenarios that theyve laid out and there were also charges in there a...

Memorandum about bill barr simply telling the special counsel, you know what? i want you to conclude whether he committed obstruction or not and the reason that bill barr, we now know clearly from his memo did not send it back to mueller who reported to him was because he knew exactly what the answer would be because it says in black and white that this memo could be read to conclude that the president committed obstruction, and then theres a legal point thats just also dead wrong. they say that...

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Stephen engel and callahan. bill barr held this memo held secret until moments ago to justify his decision to not charge donald trump with the crimes of obstruction of justice outlined in the 23 month-long investigation led by robert mueller and his team from the mueller probe. this memo was written by two senior doj officials for attorney general barr both political appointees. they argue that the mueller report had not established a case to charge trump with obstruction. the justice department...