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Minutes, the tape recordings from the white house, that was kind of the smoking gun. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your time, congressman. >> youre welcome. we paid for it. we need to get it. >> all right, and i should point out by the way so everyone watching knows, yes, the taxpayers, we paid for it. because of the money mueller has recouped from people like manafort, this whole investigation is actually in the grains. pretty incredible. out front next president trump with his legal t...

The informed congress tonight, the judiciary committees that mueller never tried to indict the president. now, of course that would be against justice department policy. but even though it was against policy mueller could have felt the president committed an indictable crime and felt like in any other situation he would have moved forward with an indictment. but in his letter today barr says mueller had never promised an action, and he was clear there were no such instances during the special co...

The thing we should look for next, erin. >> thank you very much, laura. juliette, principle conclusions. how much is that really going to give us? we already know, for example, no more indictments. so i would expect thats one principle conclusion. >> ive been saying people who want everything and im watching some of the tweets on the hill, so theres a lot going on here. there are cases going on. there are investigations still going on. i am much more sympathetic to barr taking his time and prote...

Buckets. theres also the obstruction question, which is, you know, weve seen sort of all of the other aspects of muellers investigation come out in court charges at some point. the gru, the internet research agency, paul manafort, michael flynn, other cases. but we havent seen sort of this core question, the original sin that begat the mueller investigation in the first place, which was the firing of jim comey and sort of the actions that grew out of that. which again focus on the president, wou...

That barr wants the justice department to be relieved of being viewed as political, he should explain, and i kind of like what i heard when he said he was going to consult with mueller, why certain materials would not be released and provide as much information as he can. so maybe im splitting the difference here, but i do think just given whats going on in the indictments and counter intelligence and all that stuff, i never anticipated that we would see the document that barr is seeing. barr, o...

Review the principle conclusions before those go to congress. my colleague pamela brown has of course reported that they do expect to receive some awareness of the substance before that goes to the hill. as for those principle clonclusions in a letter to lawmakers this evening, the attorney general bill barr says he expects to be able to provide those principle conclusions as soon as this weekend. and i am told those principle conclusions which you could essentially think of as a summary or dist...

His personal culpability here. it may not rise to the level of criminal, which is really the ultimate thing we do in america -- >> it would be incredibly significant, right, if there was a conclusion that the russians had compromised or perceived as compromised for donald trump. >> absolutely. and i think based on the indictments because mueller has told us a lot through the indictments and information filed, i sort of predict through this report he tells the story of the government of russia, v...

Juliette, quick final word. it depends also on the motive, right? he could have not asked for a subpoena because he knew he wasnt going to get one. >> i think thats right. so why wouldnt mueller have done that? it is because the ultimate question about what happens to the president, lets just put it very bluntly, is not muellers to decide. and he never wanted to decide it. hes not going to get -- you know, the third rail is going to be owned by congress, not by mueller. and that, you know, depen...

Prosecuting the presidents men. in this case its the other way around. and so if indeed there is more misconduct surrounding this administration, expect more investigations. they just wont be led by mueller. and theres one other point i wanted to make. the watergate special prosecution force was very careful not to suggest criminal behavior by those who had not been indicted. because under our system of government and laws and justice that wouldnt be fair. but that doesnt mean that the mueller r...

Pursued. essentially hes saying theres nothing that special counsel robert mueller asked for and was denied to do. and one of the big questions weve been wondering is whether mueller wanted subpoena the president. we know that he never sat down for an interview, which is huge victory for the president. you and i know both that a lot of the lawyers were very concerned because they thought if the president sat down with mueller that he would probably get himself in trouble. he managed to end this ...