governed by the terms you outlined on may 29th, specifically that the information you discussed appears in and does not go beyond the public version of your march 22nd 2019 report to the attorney general or your ma that means nothing beyond the reductions were blacked out sections and more significantly, nothing more about uncharged third parties, and that exception would include the president. any testimony must remain within the boundaries of your public report because matters within the scope of your investigation recovered by the executive privilege. it would include discussions about the investigative steps or decisions made during your investigation not otherwise described in the public version. this creates new obstacles for the democrats who want mueller to comment and go beyond the report into his findings. bill: so we are hanging on every word tomorrow. every question, every answer. we will see how it goes.
constitutional clash. laura: i think the president was right in how he answered this question. president trump: he found no collusion and nothing to do with obstruction because they made a ruling based on his findings and said no obstructions. he laid out evidence president trump: are you trying to say now there was collusion even though he said there is no collusion. he said no collusion. he said he didn t look at it. president trump: the report said no collusion. did you read the report? president trump: yes, i do. you should read it, too. laura: focusing on the collusion issue. there was no conspiracy or cooperation purposeful between trump and russia to effect the outcome of the election unless i read something wrong, correct? i think this one trump gets an a and stephanopoulos gets an f. if you read the report it says not just that mueller says insufficient evidence. he said there is no conspiracy at all.
laura: basically used as a synonym there, correct? the mueller report doesn t say there is no conspiracy but other stuff. he said there is no evidence. not insufficient evidence. no evidence. that s a major clear statement. no evidence and conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russians. i don t know where stephanopoulos is thinking that mueller kind of made some kind of wishy-washy finding that leaves some laura: nobody was thinking that on collusion, correct? on this issue going back to the issue of his lawyers, like any smart lawyer, like you would advise or i would advise my client. the idea that you would march your client in, the president of the united states, to talk to the mueller team? you should never work again if you re a lawyer. stephanopoulos doesn t understand that? i don t understand. part of it was you don t want mueller and prosecutors to try to play games to trick the president to committing perjury about something that he didn t do.
constitutional clash. laura: i think the president was right in how he answered this question. president trump: he found no collusion and nothing to do with obstruction because they made a ruling based on his findings and said no obstructions. he laid out evidence president trump: are you trying to say now there was collusion even though he said there is no collusion. he said no collusion. he said he didn t look at it. president trump: the report said no collusion. did you read the report? president trump: yes, i do. you should read it, too. laura: focusing on the collusion issue. there was no conspiracy or cooperation purposeful between trump and russia to effect the outcome of the election unless i read something wrong, correct? i think this one trump gets an a and stephanopoulos gets an f. if you read the report it says not just that mueller says insufficient evidence. he said there is no conspiracy at all.
very simple, it s very simple. there was no crime. laura: joining me now is a former deputy assistant attorney general. who has it right here? i love that part of the interview. i thought the president was great there. but george stephanopolous you didn t answer questions of the special counsel in person basically on obstruction. so they are both kind of right. president trump is clearly right that he answered questions in writing. and that he that mueller did not find any kind of collusion. george stephanopolous, i think, might be correct although we haven t seen it all that president trump did not answer questions on obstruction in writing but none of it was in person. mueller could have pressed to try to get an interview in person which would have caused a huge constitutional conflict. laura: he decided not to do that. it was up to mueller to press forward. mueller says we could have but decided we want to wrap up the report quickly and avoid a