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Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Important meeting because i never even heard that. As far as you know, this is all of it. This is everything. This is everything. All right. So who do you believe . Joining me now to break this down, former state Department Senior adviser. Paul butler, Professor Of Law at georgetown law school. Former fbi agent. Clint watts author of messing with the enemy. David k johnson and former watergate ...

Report actually does i would perhaps want to address the question of whether, you know, he didnt come to a finding on obstruction, because he meant to leave that up to congress. I mean, that said, he is doing this at the Justice Department. I think if he does decide to draw those sort of, you know, lines of difference from barr, hes going to do it gently. Unless this is a very different Robert Mueller then everyone at the Justice Department is used to, then Michael Zeldin is used to, were not go...

Constrained by the long-standing doj protocol on not indicting a sitting president. he said, simply, that it wasnt an option we could consider, they thought it was unconstitutional. so they didnt even get to that point given the longstand, doj protocol. i also thought it was interesting that he pointed out that even if he was to give testimony, it will not go beyond the report. he seemed to be setting the stage there, managing expectations a little bit, on both sides. obviously, democrats have a...

Identified chief of staff who can interface with white house counsel and ensure smooth management of everything. the irony here, joe, might be that what ultimately insulates the president from indictment is not his legal team, not his willingness to be forthcoming and make a full confession, but rather this long standing doj policy that says you should not indict a sitting president for a lot of credential reasons that have to do with good government. that doesnt prevent prosecutors in the south...

They can to shut down the investigation. if they cant shut down the investigation, they want to discredit it because they realized this isnt as likely with respect to donald trump to end up in front of a jury, as long as hes president. i think that had mueller and rosenstein will respect the long-standing doj president. if it ends up of criminality on behalf of donald trump, it will wind up in the house and senate impeachment proceedings and thats a political case where the opinion of the americ...

Reason he wants. might not be prudent but he has the constitutional right to do so. >> obstruction questions are about asking comey to let go of the flynn investigation. but the question, the fact that he wasnt under investigation, he was right. not only did jim comey tell him all those times but he told the senate. grassley and feinstein said yes, we have never been told anything to contradict what the president said in the firing letter. the question of obstruction is going to be something tha...

Anytime he wants for whatever reason he wants. might not be prudent but he has the constitutional right to do so. >> obstruction questions are about asking comey to let go of the flynn investigation. but the question, the fact that he wasnt under investigation, he was right. not only did jim comey tell him all those times but he told the senate. grassley and feinstein said yes, we have never been told anything to contradict what the president said in the firing letter. the question of obstructio...

Questions? >> im protecting the right of the president to assert it if he chooses. that would call for a communication and im not able to comment. >> can you tell me what are these long standing doj rules that protect conversations made in the executive without invoking executive privilege? >> im protecting the presidents constitutional right. mr. chairman, im not able to comment on conversations with officials within the white house. >> stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable and general sessi...