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Get that briefing? have you heard anything more about timing on that is it something you want to see? >> i am optimistic well get that briefing. im on the house foreign affairs committee. we have no treaty with saudi arabia and an attack on saudi arabia is not an attack on the u.s. theres no basis to go to war. the only way donald trump can go to war in the middle east on behalf of saudi arabia is to come to the american people and come to congress to get a declaration of war first. >> so when p...

The crime very clearly with all the evidence that shows that had he not been the president, he would have been indicted for those crimes. >> right. but the exchange with ted lu is misleading because mueller walked it back. he said he didnt mean to say what he said. >> he was very careful not to say what the report makes clear, if you read the report. because he doesnt think its fair to charge -- to say the president is charged when he cant -- when there can be no trial because of the department ...

It doesnt seem to have been an inflection point for many house democrats. why do you think that is? >> i think it was an inflection point that it broke the administrations lie, the attorney generals lie that the president was totally exonerated by the mueller report. quite the contrary, there was very damning evidence put forward on the record. and i think as the american people understand that, as people absorb that information, as we bring out more evidence, people will understand the gravity ...

There are many of those. or double down on a weak hand and demand robert mueller testify before congress. they chose the latter. mueller himself didnt want to participate in this. he didnt see the point of it but democrats insisted. so this wednesday mueller shuffled to capitol hill, and the democrats prodded him like a zoo animal to hope he would transform to clarence darro and denounce trump as a traitor to the nation and a war criminal. but he didnt do that. so californias ted lu pushed him. ...

All along. finally, ted lu was able to extract the truth from robert mueller. president trump is a criminal. except not. a few hours later mueller backtracked and clarified he had not called the president a criminal. watch. >> before we go to questions i want to add a correction to my testimony this morning. i want to go back to one thing that was said this morning but mr. lu who said, "you didnt charge the president because of the o.l.c. opinion." that is not the correct way to say it. as we sa...

Shows. if anyone watching these two hearings who had not read the mueller report or learned about the issues, they would have been surprised today because special counsel robert mueller directly contradicts donald trump and attorney general bill barr. >> appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> a lot to talk about, ill only do this one, former top obama advisor david axelrod and nia mallika henderson and gloria boringer and jeffrey toobin and corey cordero and kirsten powers and former trump campa...

The money and the guy answering the questions didnt want to be there. dont forget that he told us two months ago, the report is my testimony. >> right. >> if you subpoena me, ill show up, but he didnt want to be there. >> democrats wanted him to bring that report to life. he was not playing ball? i dont know. to even read his own words after being pressed by ted lu. >> i can understand that. theres a high likelihood if he reads aloud those parts, you might see that cut into 30-second tv ads for ...

Right? where youve got someone from a different generation with an honor code and the justice department told him, dont talk about this. dont talk about that, and he basically said, okay. whatever you want. even though time and time again he refused to answer questions that he could have answered. there were times when he said im not going to tell you. im not going to say that. then we just opened up the report and found the information right in there. so its not like there was a legal basis to ...

>> all right. some interesting color. congressman, thank you very much for mangling the name. thank you very much for being with us tonight. >> thank you very much, bye, bye. >> democrats were upset after todays testimony. ted lu of california said it was obstruction. obstruction of justice in action. the congresswoman said the same thing. for more, lets turn to jeffrey toobin and washington correspondent for new york magazine who did a profile story on hope hicks just before she left the white ...

Todays testimony. ted lu of california said it was obstruction. the congresswoman said the same thing. for more, lets turn to jeffrey toobin and washington correspondent for new york magazine who did a profile story on hope hicks just before she left the white house in the spring of 2018. i want to get your big picture take on what we saw or didnt see but at least heard about happening in that hearing room. >> you remember on election night at the midterms, like the democrats are retaking the ho...