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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, 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: ...

(both laughing) jamie raskin: hey, would you guys like a baby constitution? child: what is that? jamie raskin: well, look. come here. its your own constitution, okay? child: sure. jamie raskin: its got the first amendment... ♪ holt: in a sobering milestone, house democrats turn weeks of testimony, evidence, and speeches into actual articles of impeachment against the president. hayes: the house judiciary committee decided to charge the president with two articles of impeachment: abuse of power...

Here is what president biden said. >> here is what he said. theyre all -- quote, they are all for the most part content with the speed with which they werent doing anything. so im just going to be a roadblock for the next two years? thats not what i do, sununu said. >> the president went on to say that republicans dont stand for anything other than obstruction right now. do you agree with him? >> i dont appreciate the president using my words out of context. >> why was it out of context? >> beca...

And then theres this weeks reporting that trump may have literally flush official papers down the toilets of the white house, and what he couldnt flush, he apparently threw down to mar-a-lago, not just any papers, but top secret documents. and yet a daring move, donald trump, given how much he talked about her emails. joining me now, former watergate prosecutor, jill wine-banks. shes got most of the hashtag sisters and law and politics podcast. shes also an msnbc contributor. jill, legally speak...

Basically pulling the wool over everybodys eyes about what was really in the report. he took a complicated set of facts which showed lots of wrongdoing and condensed it to no collusion, no obstruction. barr: there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian governments hacking. president trump: there was no collusion, there was no obstruction, there was no nothing. jamie raskin: neither of those things was in there, but that was the mantra. you could hear it 500 times a day....

Conservative partnership institute. it was to meadows who later repudiated in his book, which sounds like trying to influence him. your thoughts, jill? >> well, i think youve laid out a good case for obstruction of a witness and tampering with a witness, which is what that does sound like. all of these conducts fall together and i think its time for the announcement of a special grand jury. it would assure the american people that the department of justice is actually doing something without vio...

Routinely destroying documents. isnt this obstruction? this is outrageous. >> reporter: well, we dont know if its obstruction because we dont know what the documents are. we dont know what the intent is. a lot of questions before we get to that place, but the archives did say whenever cnn asked and other news outlets, some of trumps presidential records received by the national archives were paper records that were torn up by former president trump. this was documents that went over in the batch...

The law. i mean, how incredible it is to say that -- those words -- about an ex-president. but when it comes to the documents that were ripped up and destroy the, that may be more serious because obstruction of justice prevents a president -- any american -- from destroying records that they think may incriminate them in a possible investigation. and we know that some of these materials, according to reporting, that have been turned over to congress were torn up. some, they have not even been ab...

Objects. i dont agree with them, but they have been immovable objects. if you want to dilute their power in the democratic party, we have to win elections in november or we will be dealing with the kind of obstruction barack obama dealt with when mitch mcconnell was in charge when he was president. >> willie, again, just like i was saying, instead of bloggers, progressive bloggers talking about democracy doesnt work or america is broken because of, lets say, jury instructions in wisconsin or in ...

Was tweeting pence didnt have the courage to overturn the election. he was also with mike pence, were told, in the oval office on january 4th when trump and lawyer john eastman tried to convince pence that he had the power to overthrow and turn over the election. so what are the implications of shorts testimony? >> the implications of shorts testimony is that its giving really firsthand knowledge of the interactions between pence and the president. what was transpiring both in the pressure campa...