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Efforts to influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. so the victory lap has begun. this is from lindsey graham, an ally of president trumps, who says this, i have just received top-line findings from attorney general barr. good day for the rule of law. great day for president trump and his team. no collusion, no obstruction. the cloud hanging over president trump has been removed by this report. bad day for those hoping the mueller investigation would take president trump down. hes, of cour...

>> dana, good afternoon to you, reaction pouring in this hour, youve got the democrats continuing to fight, saying they want to see all the evidence. republicans are saying that this is vindication for president trump, lindsey graham, the republican judiciary chairman in the senate saying, quote, good day for rule of law, great day for president trump and his team, no collusion and no obstruction, the cloud hanging over president trump has been removed by this report. the top republican on house...

Part of the obstruction investigation. lindsey graham saying in a statement good day for the rule of law. great day for president trump and his team. no collusion and no obstruction. the cloud hanging over president trump has been removed by this report. but, of course, a lot of questions about how bob mueller reached these conclusions. will the justice department provide congress with the full report or the underlying evidence? bill barr said in that letter he would -- his goal was to release a...

When george bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the united states -- >> so help me god. >> the cloud of bill clintons impeachment still hung over the country. >> the president of the united states, george w. bush. >> what no one knew then was a new kind of partisan warfare had been unleashed. every president that came after clinton has had to contend with impeachment fever. >> impeach bush. >> it no longer seemed unthinkable to impeach a president. >> he lied to us. he should be impeached...

Third, i harbored what turned out to be a naive hope that when this all started, that this would somehow remove the cloud over this country and over the presidency, and i dont think the mueller reports going to do that. and one of the clouds -- part of the cloud, if you will, to use a metaphor, thats still hanging over this whole evolution for me, its something ive been concerned about from the outset, going back to when we presented our intelligence community assessment to then candidate or pre...

Truly a national hero and is to be commended for what he did and the manner in which he did it. despite all the constant assaults, he kept his mouth shut and ran a very tight operation. secondly, to echo a point that congressman lieu made in your last segment, i think it says a lot about the strength and the resilience of our institutions. you know, he kept his job. he was allowed, despite the efforts of the president to undermine it, until the end as did rod rosenstein. third, i harbored what t...

Continuing investigation and theyll be seen simply by an effort by democrats to try and find ways to cut up the president after the election. but on the basic charge, the cloud hes been under, if the evidence shows that, itll be a tremendous victory for the president and hell be largely in the clear in terms of these investigations. >> bret: to you, dana, we are making clear this is a consequential moment. the big moment no matter whats in the report and the caveats all over the place, the polit...

The report first. he will decide what congress gets to see, but before congress gets even that version, the white house wants to scrub it down with claims of executive privilege. so in the end you may get nothing. the process is a new laser sharp focus this morning because the special counsels office just dropped what could be a major clue bomb in a new legal filing. robert muellers lawyer said they face a press of work this week, a press of work. could that press be the actual report this week ...

Investigation is -- is -- the conclusion of it is eminent. >> he knows a lot more than we do might be an understatement based on what we saw yesterday with the michael cohen revelations, the release of some of the information surrounding the search warrants. one of the thing is we learned how far back the mueller team had been looking at michael cohen, as far back as may, 2017. we have a timeline. you can just see the steps they took before the ultimate raid there. so this was in the works for a...

The chair of the house oversight committee says that he has not received a single piece of paper, not one piece of paper from the white house despite a dozen requests. the you get nothing might also be the strategy when it comes to the release of the mueller report. the administration seems to be placing as many roadblocks as possible in front of the full public release of the findings. and that process is in sharp focus right now because the special counsels office just dropped what could be a ...