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To bring a prosecutable case. >> absolutely. if he could have exonerated the president -- i thought that was just a key line, "if i could have exonerated the president, i would have." >> to say that out loud. >> of course you would have! its up to us to read the silences. mueller has given us enough. it means, their failure to exonerate the president or their not exonerating the president means that there is something to move forward with. now, whether that is the cases that are ongoing, whether...

Criminal proceeding, then from bill barrs perspective, its not a prosecutable case. >> okay. everyone stand by. i want to go to the president returning to the white house, just moments ago. and listen in. >> will you ask the attorney general to make the full report public? >> i just want to tell you that america is the greatest place on earth. the greatest place on earth. thank you very much. >> okay. so very brief comments, obviously. america is the greatest place on earth after earlier toda...

Out of them. that will be a very simple process of identifying and connecting those to the letters that were sent. and thats pretty solid evidence. >> bill: if you were an investigator on a case like this and you have these questions outstanding, what are you doing right now? what is your strategy? are you laying back, communicating with attorneys on his side? what happens in a case like this? >> the prosecutors will handle the communication with the attorneys. you are pushing hard to run down a...

The president his due, hes been gracious to the bush family, a nice salute there, a classy touch with the president saluting 41 as he leaves. so an otherwise great day marred by some tweets in the morning perhaps. but again, as everyone will tell you, prosecutor sitting right here, i was a bond lawyer so not really qualified to opine on this. no prosecutor would take that to the bank and take that to court in an individual tweet. >> alone. >> i dont want to minimize the presidents tweets though ...

Encouraging people to cooperate with the russia probe or not encouraging them, discouraging them to cooperate with prosecutors. witness tampering has to show some kind of corrupt intent. so whether or not a prosecutor would actually have a prosecutable case for his tweeting which is encouraging people not to cooperate is one thing. whether or not it -- >> hes saying tell the truth. hes not saying not cooperate. >> whether or not it meets the elements of witness tampering though, he has -- if hes...

That you cant even call a criminal investigation, though the purpose is not to create a prosecutable case or not. its to uncover the credibility and validity of some of the allegations made. to just present that to the senate and let them make the decision about how they feel about the information. that has not been done. it was not done by the senate judiciary impliee at all, nothing even close to a full vetting of this information has occurred yet. heres one of the interesting issues that i ha...

Rarely works for a defendant. this case was already in process before mueller took over and it was likely the first situation that presented it to hiss team. weve heard the judge repeatedly admonish the prosecution but it may be that the evidence in this case ties up somehow with the larger russia and the collusion investigation in ways we dont see yet. but even if it doesnt -- this is a prosecutors job, when you here in the middle of an investigation and you have a prosecutable case you go ahea...

Waiting for this report and putting a lot of faith in what comes in it. >> jesse: i think we have been downplaying it. we said it was probably going to be a big air ball. >> marie: this is selective history, fake news. i think its important that they did not find evidence of political bias and impact of the investigation. they also found that they had no way, no ability to prosecute hillary clinton under the five statutes they examined. i am not in a tree but the department of justice looked int...

>> reporter: well, yes, dana. fox news is still working to confirm reports that there was a criminal referral by the justice departments internal watch dog, the inspector general, over the former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and his four counts of lying, three under oath as to his role in the leak of information about the clinton foundation. whats key here is that the inspector general can make criminal referrals in two ways. one is that after they finished their investigation and they conc...

Statement that was going to clear hillary clinton when key witnesses had not been questioned. including hillary clinton. and it was peter strzok to talk about the phrase, grossly negligent for extremely careless because thats important. under the legal standard that is a prosecutable case. >> it is fascinating to hear your analysis of this going forward. so many family names mentioned in these documents, the back and forth as to how and why each side saying things are not done properly or were d...