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♪ reporter: weve got a big story coming out of washington this morning. today is the public release of the mueller report. reporter: after 23 months of secrecy, this morning, answers for the american public, out of washington this morning. today is the public -- the mueller report. >> after 23 months of secrecy, this morning answers for the american public. when attorney general william barr released a redacted version of the nearly 400-page mueller report. >> was there a conspiracy in the ele...

This is the trump era, whatever you can grab. >> dad! oh my god. >> would you guys like a baby constitution? >> what is? >> come here. its your own constitution, okay? its got the first amendment. >> in a sobering milestone, house democrats turned weeks of testimony, evidence, and speeches into actual articles of impeachment against the president. >> the house judiciary committee decide to charge to the president with two articles of impeachment, obstruction of power -- >> president trump is now...

Significant because thats the kind of crime that really exacerbates the underlying crime of having these documents and, you know, at the department, when theyre going to consider whether they should charge the former president, the fact that there may be obstruction of justice and that is lying in addition to having these documents improperly at mar-a-lago, i think will weigh quite heavily as it has with other cases that they brought in the past, for instance against general petraeus. >> and chu...

Susans hair and blood tissue in his car, hamilton explained it this way. after calling 9-1-1, he realized he emts when we have a look at the car past his car out front, so we raced out to move it. he said he had gotten susans car blood on him from doing cpr, blood that then transferred from his clothes and hands to the car. >> i wanted empty to get. in >> a lot of people dont get that. they hear there might be a spark of life in your wife and you gotta do cpr and you gotta move the car? >> i thi...

>> well, on the one level, you know, theyve got trump now. they could bring charges against donald trump this week if they choose to. on the obstruction count and probably one or more of the others. he was -- he takes documents that didnt belong to him. he gets subpoenaed to return those documents, he returned 15 boxes or 15 boxes are returned and then the fbi finds that he didnt return everything and he returned finally they do the search and they get 11. on that, theyve got him. they could bri...

And that it was an informant telling them that that was not the case subsequently that led them to believe they had to go in with a search warrant. can they establish some level of obstruction there if they -- do they have to establish that donald trump knew that there in fact was material that still had not been obtained? >> thats a great question, andrea. to prove intent with respect to any defendant you have to show that that person, the lawyer, mr. trump, an aide, somebody else, intended wil...

Time on twitter, that he was working so hard that he liked to take materials out of the white house, back to the residence, no longer inside of a secure scif facility. so that meant he routinely declassified everything that he wanted to take with him. that means that trump would have been putting his own convenience over our national security. and ultimately, this is just a house of cards that crumbles, but alex, it doesnt matter whether they were classified or not, because in what we learned of...

Indicting the president and you have to think he has somebody inside talking to him because you couldnt have gotten a warrant application on the obstruction without some other inside information. so i think hes getting pretty close to indictment. >> lets go to the other big breaking news and this is about rudy giuliani we teased at the top of the hours. we have tom winter to talk about it. rudy giulianis lawyers have been informed he is now a target of the investigation and we have confirmed tha...

Warrant that a federal judge approved. it is so important that these documents remain in safe locations. mar-a-lago, where you can check tennis rackets and golf clubs is not one of them. >> theres no evidence he declassified anything and those papers dont show any indication of that. let me ask you, ken delanian, about the potential charges outlined in this search warrant, which is obstruction. what does that mean in terms of what potentially could have happened to those documents either on thei...

Of justice? or obstruction of an investigation? that means that the fbi had probable cause to think that somebody at mar-a-lago holds a significant risk of destroying evidence in the next few days. i wonder who that could be. >> panel, please stick around. our coverage of the fbi search and its fallout continues right after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ today, my friend, you did it...you did it...♪ today, you took centrum silver and took one more step towards taking charge of your health. centrum ...