Opening Statement Mueller News Today

Findings. theyve repeatedly said the investigation found no collusion and no obstruction and that it totally exonerated the president. each of those three statements is simply not true. the investigation certainly found, as i said, ten instances of obstruction by the president, that the president repeatedly lied to the american people, that they welcomed the assistance of the russians, they knew about it. and we want to get these facts out so the american people know what were dealing with and h...

A very good tuesday morning to you. im jim sciutto. >> and im poppy harlow. did you get the memo? we are one day out from robert muellers high stakes hearing and speaker pelosi is laying out the game plan for her party. ecpose the presidents alleged crimes, corruption and cover-up. one thing really not mentioned in these documents is impeachment. >> we know the house speaker not in favor of that for now. meanwhile the justice department laying out its own guidelines for mueller warning the speci...

And exonerated the president. it did not exonerate the president. the report is chock-full of very damning information against the president. again, as i said it found ten instances of the president obstructing justice. it found instances of the president instructing people to lie to investigators and to lie to the american people. and the american people need to hear this from mueller. and then after that, we need to get some of the witnesses cited by mueller before the committee. now, the admi...

Mueller can talk about when he testifies tomorrow before two house committees. the former special counsel has been warned in a letter to remain within the boundaries of his written report. democrats want to ask questions like would donald trump be charged criminally if he were not the president? if mueller follows the justice departments guidance he likely would not be able to answer that. >> but theres a little bit of a wild card. cnn has learned muellers prepared an opening statement which wil...

But the report makeatize very clear. but remember the report indicted -- muellers investigation resulted in the indictment of 37 people including the presidents campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, national security advisor. it found -- details ten instances, ten instances where the president obstructed justice and repeatedly where the president tells people to lie to investigators. and anyone who did that, anyone other than the president who did that would face serious consequences. >> it...

Under the assumption that robert mueller will go beyond his report, that he will be able to say things that are not in there? >> no, well be operating under the assumption hell do essentially what he said, hell stay more or less within the bounds of the report. but its important that the american people hear directly from mueller what the report found. they found that the russians interfered in the election very system atly to help trump, the trump campaign welcomed that assistance. the presiden...

Talking to jerry nadler what the expectation is, what happens over the next couple of days? >> most difficult thing for nadler has been the lack of cooperation. theyre getting fought on everything, the subpoena, every witness. so hed had to assemble this piece by piece. the big break through was getting mueller to come up there and at least talk about the parameters of the report hes given. as most americans probably most member of congress have not read that report. >> but you think that letter...

>> and then it just came back. >> the 22nd, the night before the hearing. in fact late yesterday afternoon. >> and what does that tell you? >> first of all, the person who signed the letter was an associate deputy attorney general. now whats that mean? thats pretty low level. thats the title i had at the justice department before i went to the white house. i was maybe 14th, 15th, 16th in line way down. a fairly junior person signs that letter and just outlines the regulations. the other thing i ...