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Reading summaries that he thought were crystal clear. they werent. whether mueller intends to or not, i think he is going to provide a bigger impact from his live testimony that perhaps reading the report and his press conference did not provide. >> its a great point. to that point, you could read the report. it had a very important sentence in it. or when mueller finally agreed to give that press conference, decided, it was his decision, to hear it is different. >> if we had had confidence that...

Everything. >> you just quoted steve bannon so im going to read you a quote from your book, another quote from steve bannon. says, "this is where it isnt a witch hunt, even for the hard core. this is where he turns into just a crooked business guy one worth $50 million. bannon, whether mueller or the southern district of new york or the democrats or trumps own psychoactions provided the engine of destruction, the odds of the president going down remained as great as ever and not in a blaze of gl...

Forward. at a time when the president today said impeachment is a "dirty, filthy, disgusting word." where are we tonight? speak of this is exactly what i think the purpose of the mueller press conference was. it is quite obvious that it was to revive the issue and put a little bit more wind in the sales of the pro-impeachment crowd on capitol hill. i also think the democrats all along have been looking for the opportunity despite all the hemming and hawing about how trump has been so unethical a...

Have? >> i dont think it does, anderson. and it frankly blows my mind that we had a few weeks ago the fbi director say that the russians will be back. mueller today, both at the beginning of his statement and at the end of his statement said, hey, dont take your eye off the ball. russians massively intervened. they did it with weaponizing of information, by manipulating social media, they did it by undermining our very voting process. and weve got a white house that, at least according to press ...

Would hope would be in a bipartisan way, we could disagree about whether mueller was fully right or not on obstruction, but what we ought to do, when we come back is past at least legislation, and it would be bipartisan, that would secure our elections to make sure theres an audible paper trail after every vote. we ought to make sure that there are some rules of the road around facebook in particular, so theres not the ability of russians or others to create fake identities, to manipulate our po...

Charged with a federal crime while he is in office. >> but, this is what the attorney general has said about in very issue. >> in your press conference, you said that you asked the special counsel whether it would have made a charging decision or recommended charges on obstruction. but for the office of legal counsels opinion on charging sitting presidents and gnat special counsel made clear that was not the case. so, mr. barr, is that an accurate description of your conversation with the specia...

Collusion. he just said there was insufficient to make a charge there. and then he just tossed the whole thing into congresss lap to figure out what to do with it. >> what do you say david on this issue? at best it appears barr is in misleading in the answer to grassley who specifically asked whether mueller would have made a chargeening decision if it werent foshag the decision of olc. >> the viewers need to understand its not a statement by the doj. its a joint statement by the special counsel...

Are closing in on the leadership and theyre going to have to do something after mueller spoke. >> yeah, clearly, the pressure now has intensified, i would say pretty dramatically in the aftermath of muellers statement that we just had on the democrats in the house of representatives, and they are the majority, to formally launch impeachment its interesting as you point out in the final statement from jerry nadler, given that special counsel mueller was unable to pursue criminal charges against t...

There. he reiterated the points he already made in the report. and we agree with them. there was no collusion. there was no conspiracy. and we consider this case closed. >> just to belabor the painful point. the collusion and conspiracy are two things. saying there is no conspiracy is a legal teerm which mueller did. collusion is a separate matter. is this the beginning or the end. >> i think its still the middle. some of it is going to depend on what nancy pelosi decides. some of it depends on ...

Conversation with the special counsel? >> yes. he -- he reiterated several times in a group meeting that the -- he was not saying that but for the olc opinion he he would have found obstruction. >> mueller today was clear and barr at best misled in the answer to grassley under oath. grassley asked whether mueller would have made a charging decision if it werent for the office of legal counsel policy at the doj to not charge sitting presidents. barr said mueller told him, no, the olc was not the ...