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If Donald Trump hoped to understand what he would face upon moving into the White House in 2017, he would have done well to study what happened to Richard Nixon nearly fifty years prior.

Did. so, yes, i think both the contents of the report, the decisions and judgments he made would all be areas that mr. mueller could be questioned about and useful and important to the american people. >> congressman, appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> i want to continue this conversation. for you, what are the biggest questions still unanswered? >> well, the one big question is on the issue of obstruction. so we seem to think that across the investigation there was an investigation into w...

So i have never thought that the special counsels report that he provides to the attorney general is going to be a full report that explains everything related to the overall investigation. instead, what i thought it would likely be is more of a prosecutive memo and a declination memo. it waialae out, heres all the things we the office of the special counsel investigated. heres the crimes, the potential crimes we identified. heres all the elements, heres the facts that line up with those. heres ...

Information, every part of it, not just your report or anything like that, but everything, because its our constitutional duty to understand what happened. and if mueller -- excuse me, if barr files something that is a small report or a brief report and redacts all the information that jeff is talking about, i think congress will be, you know, have to ask for everything and boy, that could be pretty damaging to the president. >> carrie, its also possible that barr doesnt provide congress with a ...

>> it could be a memo -- thats part of why the nominee today was reluctant to commit to what he would then provide. because he doesnt know if thats going to look like a prosecutive memo that recommends heres the charges we brought, heres the charges we couldnt bring. and so hes not going to do what jim comey was accused of doing, which was providing derogatory information about someone who was not worthy of being prosecuted. >> and barr raised that today. because it was an outrage for comey not ...

Information, write up a prosecutive memo, make a determination as to whether he has met the elements of that crime. but he really is the only person who can lend it one way or the other by his own testimony. and then theres other things related to their investigation. for example, the moscow project. the trump building deal that has been revealed through some of the michael cohen aspect of this case. whether or not the president knew that a deal was still in the works throughout the campaign. th...

Breaking news. carrie cordero, also van jones, a former adviser to president obama. also joining us, former trump campaign adviser michael caputo. carrie, i want to start with you with pamelas breaking news. the special counsels team still wants to talk to the president. so at a minimum, if the president and his legal team thought that was going to go away, it hasnt. >> yeah, well, john, theres a number of things in the investigation that still would be greater informed by the presidents actua...

That become public in a way -- some have argued hes sort of writing the early outline of a report in some of these documents to get them out of the public sphere. >> i think thats one possibility. theres a lot of commentators who think hes sort of speaking through all these charging documents and hes going to reveal and weave together the whole story in plea agreements and things like that. im not 100% convinced of that yet. >> he certainly didnt do that in this. >> i think as prosecutors, theyr...

>> how it plays out. >> although mueller has been putting a lot more detail in charging documents and documents that become public in a way -- some have argued hes sort of writing the early outline of a report in some of these documents to get them out of the public sphere. >> i think thats one possibility. theres a lot of commentators who think hes sort of speaking through all these charging documents and hes going to reveal and weave together the whole story in plea agreements and things like ...