pinning the president on something else. the attorney general says the special counsel did not exonerate, didn t find a crime there, he left it to us to decide, attorney general barr talks about he and other legal members of doj, rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general, they worked through this and looked at what was evidence on both sides. a couple of really interesting things to note here is that one they say they didn t base on the fact that the president was clear of any crime of collusion, the idea that he obstructed or not but did bear on the decision to say, no he did not obstruct justice. they also want to make clear in this letter that this didn t go to the point, we got the old doj members that say you can t indict a sitting president, they wanted to be clear on issue of obstruction of justice, that s not where the conversation went. they are not holding back on indictment because there s that conversation, they are saying we did not find any obstruction here but, of course,
best-seller, people were trashing rod rosenstein, he was allow today speak for himself and the attorney general asked him to stay onto finish out the report which he s done shannon. we heard that he was going to leave, we heard he was looking towards that, conversation that he did want to stay and finish this out, see this through because his name has been involved in so much of this. if you think about the memo that he s credited offering which led to dismissal in part of the former fbi director james comey, the allegations that he wore a wire or that he was with 25th amendment potentially to remove the president from office, as member of doj he has been quiet on this while others have been freed about their book tours and talked about these things as well, a number of folks on the hill want to draw him to have more conversations with him potentially under oath as well. the fact that he stayed and get the report handled by the attorney general and get it out, i think he has one foot
number russian actors to cooperate information, the obstruction of justice is more complex. i m not a lawyer,i didn t [laughter] i was interested in listening to previous individuals talk about it. i might have a slightly different opinion on it. i thought it s compelling in barr s letter that he said, generally speaking to on stain and sustain the government would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that person acting with corrupted engaged in obstructive conduct pending proceeding, barr goes onto say, there was no no obstruction conduct that was tied to pending or proceeding or done with criminal intent which is why he and rod rosenstein reached, here stuff that would say would raise concerns here, offsetting