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Attempt, i think here, to preempt congress role. we are the lawmaking branch of government. we are the primary and dominant branch of government, and we are the ones who will decide whether there were high crimes and misdemeanors committed by this president. >> barr had done a masterful job of propagandizing what was in the report. he took absolute wrongdoing and turned it into collusion and obstruction. >> there is no evidence of collusion with the russian governments hacking. >> there was no c...

To say on the eve of the attack in this court-released video. he talks about himself in the third person. >> so, yes, today ryan nichols, ryan nichols grabbed his [ bleep ] weapon and he stormed the capitol and he fought for freedom. for election integrity. >> e legrity. it sounds like a prescription medicine that comes with unfortunate side effects and a high co-pay. what nichols said sounded like bragging or probably a confession. hes charged with five felonies and three misdemeanors, includin...

Criminal prosecutions that the justice department is carrying out, as you said, more than 700 of them, this morning, on cnn, there was an interview with defense lawyer who is representing a number of defendants from the january 6th accused, and he said, flat out, oh, yeah, that offer from the president will absolutely change the course a lot of these prosecution, it will reduce the chance that these defendants will provide helpful information to the government, it will reduce the chance that the...

Rule of law, who is very slippery when it comes to dealings, and who in the past has encouraged his supporters in events that resulted in violence. so i think fani willis did the smart thing here. she invoked the fbi. and i would expect her to not tolerate too much more here. if she reaches the point, and im singling her out because i think the threats in some way are directed towards her in many ways. but if sees this going to something thats very clearly obstruction of justice, i wouldnt expec...

Barbara mcquaid, and well talk about that in a little bit. bipartisan, i want to start with the new comments about the investigations, could his own words come back to bite him legally speaking? >> i think so. they did say there was obstruction of justice, some of the things sited there was the dangling of pardons. they suggested that offering a pardon he was influencing their cooperation with the government. they know if he is promises them a pardon he might refrain from doing so. anyone incoll...

Mark meadows was treated after turning over 9,000 documents, refusing to comply with the subpoena, resulted in a referral for contempt, is it safe to assume that mr. jacob and mr. short are cooperating and responsive witnesses at this point? >> well, you know, as all witnesses with the committee, were not commenting directly on who has or hasnt spoken to the committee or what theyve said, but i would certainly say that those are people, based off their position close to the former vice president...

If you can have safe communities that have a great relationship with the law enfcement officers that patrol them. so we want more officers, but we want them to patrol in a constitutional manner, though. >> so several major u.s. cities have seen record crime, record homicides in the last year, including my hometown, philadelphia. why shouldnt voters in those cities not only blame president biden but blame their democratic mayors? >> well, they shouldnt. its a bigger problem and takes investme in ...

Entourage of, you know, mark meadows and roger stone and steve bannon, are the ones who are stonewalling the committee. while the vast majority of americans weve contacted, weve contacted about testifying to the committee are answering questions, have complied, and theyre voluntarily cooperating. other than that, were making great progress. we do have to figure out certain things that remain a bit obscure because of the obstruction that were seeing. so we definitely gonna do it sometime in the s...

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, when attorney general william barr releases a redacted version of the nearly 400 page mueller report. reporter: was there a conspiracy in the election between russians and americans trying to help donald trump? was there obstruction or other crimes arising out of that investigation? reporter: ...

Are fundamentally talking about like the destruction of evidence, even with that, these are fines. these are not going to jail finds. the national archives, donald trump, clearly violated the presidential records act. but as we know, the presidential records act has no teeth. that is not me saying that. that is former archivist saying that. there is no real incentive for presidents to have this act. so this idea of prosecuting him under the same acts that we used to prosecute all of the manipula...