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Inspector general for the d.o.j., the russia investigation was no hoax. it began with a man named george papadopoulos running his mouth about russia reaching out to help trump and they found meetings and attempts to meet with russians and wikileaks and all sorts of poor judgment in between. mueller laid out a lot of counts of potential obstruction by the president alone and six of his guys admitted or were convicted of lying to the feds. the only hoax was potus and pals denying russian interfere...

Good evening, gang, and welcome to you both. sam, well start with you. i want to ask you the same thing i asked jeremy bash. is it going to turn out, do you think, the mueller report lands with a whimper and not a bang. ditto, his testimony. is it going to turn out that an understandable phone call and a much easier to tell story is going to make the difference? >> well, its certainly more digestible politically for our democrats that i talked to. the idea of a president exerting influence on a ...

Shtein, politics editor for the daily beast and at a reny party from "the wall street journal." good evening, gang, and welcome to you both. sam, well start with you. i want to ask you the same thing i asked jeremy bash. is it going to turn out, do you think, the mueller report lands with a whimper and not a bang. ditto, his testimony. is it going to turn out that an understandable phone call and a much easier to tell story is going to make the difference? >> well, its certainly more digestible ...

Beast, and tarini parti from "the wall street journal." good evening, gang, and welcome to you both. sam, well start with you. i want to ask you the same thing i asked jeremy bash. is it going to turn out, do you think, the mueller report lands with a whimper and not a bang. ditto, his testimony. is it going to turn out that an understandable phone call and a much easier to tell story is going to make the difference? >> well, its certainly more digestible politically for our democrats that i tal...

Story," end quote. correct? >> correct. >> but your investigation actually found substantial evidence that mcgahn was ordered by the president to fire you, correct? >> yes. >> reporter: but did the president obstruct mueller? republicans pointed out, mueller kept his job. >> were you ever fired as special counsel, mr. mueller? >> not that i -- no. >> no. were you allowed to complete your investigation unencumbered? >> yes. >> reporter: republicans argued mueller was out of bounds for offering ex...

Good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, july 24th. im yasmin vossoughian. ayman is not feeling well today so he had to take a sick day. were going to start after two years of investigation. dozens of indictments and hundreds of attacks on the president of the united states. special counsel bob mueller will publicly testify on his report into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. and the episodes of potential obstruction he examined by president trump and the white house. the ...

Black and white, and that is what i hope americans hear today. >> i think they will hear him chirping like a parrot. after two years of investigation, dozens of indictments and hundreds of attacks from the president of the united states, special counsel robert mueller will publicly testify on his report into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the episodes of potential obstruction he examined by president trump and the white house. the justice department has directed muel...

To repeat whats in my report. >> laura, pick it up from there, whats best case scenario for democrats with witness mueller. >> the goal for democrats is to bring the mueller report to life. they are hopeful, even if mueller goes through and repeats whats in volume two, the ten examples of potential obstruction committed by the president, theyre hopeful that because of the fact that the majority of the american public ha has not read this report, being able to watch mueller go through that is eno...

Collusion, he was measuring criminal conspiracy. and he outlines 12 different instances of potential obstruction. the last building block of the foundation, steve, is that they want to make it clear to everyone that mueller is emphatic that he was operating under that guidance that he could not indict a sitting president. they want that to be made clear and then build the facts out from that, especially when it comes to volume 1, they say they want the american people onto know. for instance, 10...

It comes to building momentum for impeaching the president? >> yeah. i think that it will. one of the things that you see is the report itself is very dense. and many people havent read it. there is a real difference between reading a book and seeing a movie. even if mueller just talks through all the instances of potential obstruction that he investigated, i think thats going to be very revealing for a large number of americans to hear him say the words out loud. >> im going to ask you to stick...