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United states attorney. as a result, we structured our investigation around evidence for possible use in prosecution of federal crimes. we did not reach what you would call counterintelligence conclusions. we did, however, set up processes in the office to identify and pass counterintelligence information on to the fbi. members of our office periodically briefed the fbi about counterintelligence information. in addition, there were agents and analysts from the fbi who are not on our team, but wh...

Contain ever get dominic and evidence that mr. trump was enrolled as a member of this committee once the claimed? >> what i can speak to is information of the special counsel. i think thats accurate as far as that goes. >> thank you, i appreciate that. did you ask the department of justice to expand the scope of the special counsels mandate related to august 2nd, 20 17, or august 27th, 2017 scoping memoranda? >> without looking at the memoranda, i cannot answer that. >> let me ask you, did you e...

Misconduct, end quote. for the nonlawyers in the room, what did you mean by, quote, potentially preempt constitutional processes? >> im not going to try to explain that. >> that actually is coming from page one of volume ii in the footnote is the reference to this. what are those constitutional processes? >> i think i heard you mention at least one. >> impeachment. correct? >> im not going to comment. >> okay. that is one of the constitutional processes listed in the report in the footnote in vo...

The gentle lady from texas. >> director mueller, you wrote in your report that you "determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment." was not in part because of an opinion by the deferment of justice office of legal counsel that a sitting president cant be charged with a crime? >> yes. >> director mueller, at your ma, he explained that "the opening the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president o...

Know, we didnt make a decision about charging the president for obstruction, there are other mechanisms, constitutional processes. what constitutional process did you have in mind, mr. mueller? and theres only one? and thats the word "impeachment." so if they can get mueller to say "impeachment," theyll have a sound bite that you can play tomorrow night. >> all right. lets leave the best part there. i actually agree with that final assessment, because my test is pretty simple for you, which is, ...

Reported some suspicious transactions to the treasury department this year made by convicted sex criminal and now accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. "the times" reports deutsche bank reported the transactions to a federal agency in charge of policing financial crimes, according to people familiar with the banks internal processes. the report came as the bank started looking for signs that mr. epstein was using his financial resources for the purposes of sex trafficking. earlier this year, a...

>> director mueller, you wrote in your report that you, quote, determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, end quote. was that in part because of an opinion by the department of justice office of legal counsel that a sitting president cant be charged with a crime? >> yes. >> director mueller, at your may 29th, 2019 press conference, you explained that, quote, the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sit...

For the nonlawyers in the room, what did you mean by "potentially preempt constitutional processes?" >> im not going to try to explain that. >> that actually is coming from page 1 of volume to 2. in the footnote, what are those constitutional processes? >> i think i heard you mention at least one. >> impeachment, correct? >> im not going to comment. >> okay. that is one of the constitutional processes listed in the report in the footnote in volume 2. your report documents the many ways the presi...

Protests, at least the processes going forward. but this does not seem like somebody whos interested, though, the governor, in saying youre right, here i go. >> certainly not at the moment, its not seen that way. the question is can the pressure mounti mount. does pressure from presidential candidates in the united states something the governor will listen to? you had tulsi gabbard who went down there. lets listen, actually. tulsi gabbard and julian castro saying, governor, youve got to go. >> i...

Ive had a process of introspection. ive made a decision. im not going to seek reelection. that way i can focus on the job at hand. the biggest recovery effort in the modern history of united states on our hands, we are battling corruption and there are certain initiatives we have already started and new ones we want to put out there so that we can fix the problem. just today i signed a new law that guarantees that decades of mismanagement that have gone and puerto rico without the appropriate fo...