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Get the honest ads act done, which is my bill, which would simply say hey, social media company, tell us where youre getting the money for these ads and tell whats they are, as well as the backup paper ballots. >> that final question -- im sorry, the middle question there about obstruction is really interesting to me. so youre suggesting that you want to know if the obstruction undertaken by the president, as you see it was actually successful in preventing mueller from getting to all of the fac...

New york times"? >> again, i have no idea. >> i counted about 75 times. how many times did you cite fox news? >> as with the other two, i have no idea. >> about 25 times. ive got to say, it looks like volume two is mostly regurgitated press stories. honestly, theres almost nothing in volume two that i couldnt already hear or know simply by having a $50 cable news subscription. however, your investigation caused the american taxpayers $25 million. you cited media reports nearly 200 times in your ...

The trump campaign chair paul manafort was passing sensitive voter information polling data to a russian operative and there were so many other ways that russia subverted our democracy. together with the evidence in volume one i cannot think of a more serious need to investigate. so now ill ask you some questions about obstruction of justice as it relates to volume two. page 12 of volume two you state we determined there were sufficient factual and legal basis to further investigate potential ob...

Five hours before the house judiciary committee and the house intelligence committee. it will be eventful to say the least. back with us, shan, you think that robert mueller has told us what he wants to talk about. >> yes. i think he made a claim very plain in his brief remarks last time that what he cares about with more passion is the russian interference. so i think theres more hope in that area that he may stray a little bit afar from what he actually wrote. >> thats not what democrats most ...

Limit your investigation. correct? >> correct. >> and at this time, mr. sessions was still recused from oversight of your investigation, correct? >> im sorry, could you -- >> attorney general was recused from oversight -- >> yes. >> so the attorney general would have had to violate his own rules to comply with the presidents order, correct? >> i wont get into the subsidiary details. i refer you again to page 91, 92 of the report. >> if the attorney general had followed through with the president...

Team wrote in the report, quote, this is the top of page 2, volume 1, on page 173 by the way. you said that you had come to the conclusion that quote the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired with the russian government, closed quote. thats an accurate statement? >> thats accurate. >> im curious when did you come to that conclusion? >> can you remind me -- which paragraph? >> top of page 2, volume 1. >> okay. and exactly which paragraph on -- >> investigati...

Time to limit your investigation to future investigations effectively ending your investigation into the trump campaign, is that correct. >> i wont adopt your characterization, but the facts laid out in the report are accurate. >> in your report you write on page 99 -- 97, substantial evidence indicates that the presidents effort to have sessions limit the scope of the special counsels investigation to future elections interference was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the pr...

Obstruction. volume two, which i was able to see the redacted versions of it, and that was enlightening. well, guess what? i cant even see volume one as ranking on the rules committee. theyre dividing us up. intelligence gets to see the russia part. well get to see the obstruction part on judiciary. im sorry. these things arent divided. they are connected. >> all right. senator amy klobuchar, thank you very much. >> thank you. it was great to be on. ahead, the presidents sneak attacks to try t...

Criminal evidence against president trump. did the president obstruct justice? mueller declines to say, noting on the first page of volume two, doj policy precludes indicting a sitting president. it lays out examples of obstruction as well as others, but declines to conclude whether he committed a crime or not. >> while this report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. >> no prosecutor exonerates anyone. >> mueller was hired to make the difficult call...

Report. the former special counsel is set to meet with two house committees this week. thatll be the judiciary committee and intelligence commite. cnn is learning more about how the democrats are game planning their line of questioning to maximize the limited time with mueller. the judiciary committee is expected to tackle volume two of the mueller report. their focus? five instances of potential obstruction of justice by the president. here with me now is one of the members of the committee, te...