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Thing to give material to other offices, its another when it seems central to your mission. three kinds of information that we dont know whats going to happen with, and anything about the counter intelligence investigation, anything about anything about the president. when barr says in the third paragraph, there is other information besides prosecution that rosenstein and he and mueller will decide on, thats presumably the body of it. mueller did not just give him a little list of whom he indict...

Puatory with respect to the president, ie we have found no evidence the president engaged in any coordination with the russians, right? or could be completely devastating with respect to the president. the other end of the spectrum is we found the president obstructed justice cerealy and were not bringing a case against him because doj policy bars indictment of the president of the united states. so you could imagine the principal findings being very dramatic in one direction or another and i ca...

That would go into a decision to indict somebody who is actively at the highest levels of government and i think, you know, the likelihood is that both gentlemen here agreed that that was not the case that there should be indictments at this point in time. >> one other sort of loose thread im thinking about and as someone that ran the u.s. attorneys office at one point in your life, cooperation agreement. michael flynn has a cooperation agreement obviously and, you know, a lot of people thought ...

To come. you wouldnt normally turn over to a whole new prosecutor a case youve investigated and indicted. so it would be surprising figure someone from the special counsels office didnt try that case. but there are a lot of unanswered questions. they could be answered in the special report. it could say what about cohens phone in prague? it could say yes, we know donald trump sr knew donald trump jr. was meeting and he knew what the purpose of the meet was in june in the trump tower -- >> it cou...

Constitution stands for. >> i want to read what -- take a listen. >> well see what is made public. well react to that and as i said, if it is not made public in its entirety, we will use compulsory process and subpoena the report and if necessary, we reserve the right to call mueller before the committee or maybe even barr before the committee. >> thats a sort of back stop, right? as an insurance against something be choebed off the public could see, it is the case that house committee can call ...

Information as possible. thats something the president himself hinted at. so i think the signs right now are all very pausesative. >> will it be the case that some members of the congress will get to see the whole thing or barr really control access to the report unilaterally? >> i think one way or the other ultimately the american people are going to see everything. there can could be redactions and if theres an intimate private conduct, i could see those being exized. the touch stone is confid...

Mueller operates under and we all operate under. we have to have a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits. its a mouth full but thats standard. we have to have a level of confidence we can prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt. a court has never put a numeric number on what beyond a reasonable doubt means but its about 95% of the evidence showing criminality. maybe bob mueller found that this was the gang that couldnt shoot straight. ironically, if irony is still a thing these days, it ...

Lead. the former director of the fbi suggesting that president trumps tweets might constitute a crime. james comey telling a crowd at new york citys 92nd street y last night that his attacks against potential witnesses could amount to witness tampering. >> if i were prosecuting a case in the southern district of new york and a prominent person started attacking my witnesses, i would want to know, so whats going on there, and does that cross the line from free speech, which we have to keep protec...

>> every morning. i thought it was exceptional for our case and disastrous for him. i think theres no question it implicates him and i dont believe theres any way you can reconcile with what the president said on "fox & friends" with what he said on air force one and the prior statements from michael cohen, they are irreconcilable. [interesting question] [indistinct question] >> melissa: you see that was michael avenatti, the lawyer for stormy daniels. he was pouncing on the comments that the pr...

What changes will come versus if we didnt have mike pompeo at the helm? >> melissa: >> the relationship, he has been to north korea, met with the leader there. mike pompeo is one that can make it very clear, as well as president trump, that we will not tolerate north korea with a nuclear weapon. we know theyve been doing testing and we have to make sure the whole korean peninsula does not have nuclear weapons period. >> melissa: senator john barrasso, thank you for joining us. we have breaking n...