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System. and its the envy that he has of this dictator and other strong men around the world that is really disturbing. he does not represent american values that have been embraced by presidents of both parties going back to the beginning of the republic. and for a quick thought experiment, jo, imagine this was president pete buttigieg or kamala harris, president elizabeth warren, and they were over there licking the boots of the russian leader, coddling and sending love letters to the totalitar...

2024. i suspect if were at that point in time youll hear the president say exactly what he just said. let me wait and see how this plays out. >> it does raise the interesting thought experiment of what the republican party, what the gop looks like when its not led by donald trump. there will be a point when that happens either in 2020 or 2024. what does this look like to you. >> then it becomes does mike pence carry on the trump legacy. as joe biden is doing, remember, i ran with this guy. im wi...

Setting up court battles im joined live by planned parenthoods president. tonight, democrats acknowledge there is a growing desire in their ranks to impeach the president. >> you think the president will be impeached or proceedings will begin in the house at some point but not right now? >> yes, thats exactly what i feel. i think weve already begun it. we have all of these committees doing their work. were having hearings. we have already won two court cases. right now were winning this issue....

Experiment of imagine this rule doesnt exist, will you indict the president? muellers response to barr was i didnt do that thought experiment, im not going to do it, its not my job as a federal prosecutor to disappear rules in my head so that i can do analysis thats not connected to reality. barr then responded to mueller and said, well, i think you should have done it anyway and then barr told the public that he and rod rosenstein did that thought experiment, which mueller wasnt interested in d...

Because everything that he said in this press conference had already been said in this report and he just reiterated it. i think the difference, though -- yes, you have a.g. barr setting things up in one way and using this thought experiment and the folks in the house doing otherwise. the difference is a.g. barr and giuliani and others have misrepresented what robert mueller said in a way that jerry nadler did not. robert mueller did not say no obstruction, no collusion. robert mueller very clea...

Congressional forum. i guess it signals that weve shifted a little bit. the threat to donald trump is no longer from federal prosecutors and more from congress and this potential impeachment inquiry. >> betsy woodruff, i think of bill barr now as a d.c. comic book hero orrvil villain, depen on your perspective. theres bill barr fireside wearing his camping vest. but lets dig into this issue. i played that clip of jerry nadler talking about that olc memo. help me with the distance weve seen the l...

Quick thought experiment before we go. how differently would the last two months have been for everyone if after bob mueller finished his report, everyone heard from bob mueller first and not bill barr? here is your experiment. >> as set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient t...

Counsel that he committed crimes. that is why really the most important sentence in that nine minutes of muellers talk yesterday was the reason im not doing that is because the criminal justice system is not the place to level a formal allegation of presidential wrongdoing. and i would add it is the congress. congress here you go, you have everything that you need in volume two especially where he lays out all of the evidence that lets us conclude that the president -- >> and i think the importa...

Vapor riized and mueller said i not doing that, that is not how prosecutors work, not my bag, aint happening. and barr said if youre not going to do the thought experiment, i will. and the result of the bill barr thought experiment was exoneration of president trump. that is the big picture here. and it is important not to get too confused or overwhelmed as people areal following this by a lot of the legalees the way we talk about it. >> all right. thank you all vich. robert mueller changed some...

Investigating. take roger stone. he knew he was dealing with julian assange. julian assange is not russian. he knew he was dealing with guccifer 2.0 who at one point was representing himself to be a romanian hacker. so if that was the state of mind of roger stone or the trump organization, thats actually outside the mandate of the special counsel. so we dont know what else is being investigated, but thats why i emphasize the narrowness of the mandate. >> right. to be clear, this is not a critici...