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So judge jackson has this on her shoulders too. or does she look at it that way? that she needs to have manaforts sentence become big enough to send a message to others or not? >> i think she needs to send a message to the defendant but it would not be her role to send a message to the president. she should be able to take into account all of his behavior deciding to sentence him. what i think is more interesting is what he was not charged with. manafort is a fulcrum here. i suspect that was the...

Transparent about his motivations, actions, he said a lot of things to them. mueller will have been able to get their testimony, that will help him get the answers he would have preferred to get directly from the president. >> schiff also says he feels mueller is feeling pressure to wrap it up. is that a dig to mueller? >> reporter: i dont think it is a dig to mueller. there has been a lot of reporting that mueller is about to wrap it up. what we know he has ahead of him the roger stone trial. i...

Send notice to the administration that we are a co-equal branch of government and we are entitled to get classified hearings and other hearings and briefings from the administration and we are not getting there. so out of frustration we issued a letter. i hope things will change. i wont hold my breath. >> i want to ask you about north korea and the upcoming summit. the attorney general as it is written is obligated to tell congress that the investigation is done and whether mueller was prevented...

The attorney general as i understand the rules would report to congress about the conclusion of the investigation and there may be discretion about what the attorney general can put in that report. >> so you would make a report to congress? >> yes. >> based on the report youve received? >> yes. >> here is the law regarding special counsel investigations. barr only has to tell congress the investigation is complete and whether mueller was blocked on acting in efforts in his investigation and as y...

Besides the timing the biggest question remains the scope of what exactly barr will release publicly and share with congress. tom carper sits on homeland security and finance committees and is a ranking member of the environment and public works committees. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you so much having me. >> the ag is only obligated to tell you that the investigation is complete and whether mueller was prevented to act on investigative efforts but thats it. bill barr has no oblig...

Interference in the campaign, but, of course, any crimes that come along his path in the course of the investigation. we do believe and have reported that the president is being examined by mueller for broadly the question of obstruction of justice. the question of whether mueller would ever charge the president is one where many people believe that he wont because of current justice department policy. its ultimately going to be congress that decides whether the president obstructed justice. b...

One of the things that weve been watching from outside the mueller investigation trying to anticipate not only what hes likely to do next but how his case is coming together as it relates to a larger scandal is weve been watching as people are charged with lying to congress. weve seen that with roger stone and michael cohen and we saw reference to lies to congress in the sam patten indictment, as well. one of the things weve been trying to track is whether or not witnesses who have testified in ...

To pry, actually, i do. i dont mean to push. the thing that weve been watching from outside the mueller investigation trying to anticipate not only what hes likely to do next but how his case is coming together as it relates to a larger scandal is weve been watching as people are charged with lying to congress. weve seen that with roger stone and michael cohen and reference to lies to congress in the sam patten indictment, as well. one of the things weve been trying to track is whether or not wi...

Crime as has been echoed by many but is this just an indicator to you that theres more potentially down the pipeline and this is how the mueller team would like to trickle the more -- i guess the lesser of the offenses in the indictment first? >> possibly. it is very clear that he lied. lying to me is not a process crime. it is a serious crime. and he is charged with multiple counts of that as well as intimidating a witness to lie. i think to call it, quote, unquote, a process crime belittles th...

Is whether muellers team will come back and ask for formal clarification on the presidents answer under oath about when he talked to cohen about the trump moscow project. giuliani told me although they made it clear this one they would make an exception. they said if mueller does ask that question the answer is really simple. the answer is we dont know. we dont remember. >> that clears that up. in the new yorker article in which giuliani was interviewed he was asked about whether he is worried a...