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Legal counsels opinion that a sitting president cannot be charged or indicted, i hope the american people will realize that russians interfered with our elections big-time on behalf o president trump. two, that this office of the counsel opinion pretty much prevented any indictment of a sitting m inting president. and third, if he did nothing wrong, mueller would have said so and he did not. i hope people will say, well, they should at least as i have called for the house should at least begin a...

Authority. >> were dont trust our institutions and dont know if the attorney general is lying or not. we dont know when the president is telling the truth or if the fbi is corrupt or not. >> will mueller use his testimony to draw a line in the sand or leave it open to the interpretation. >> for you were asking him a question, i would ask him, why did you determine not to make a prosecution judgment. >> heres how i would ask the question. if donald j. trump was not the president of the united sta...

Muellers voice could stand out for its authority. >> we dont trust our institutions anymore. we dont know if the attorney generals lying to us or not. we dont know when a presidents telling the truth or not. we dont know if the fbis corrupt or not. >> will mueller use his testimony to draw a line in the sand? or leave the bottom line open to interpretation? >> if i were asking robert mueller a question at his hearing, id ask him, why did you determine not to make a prosecutorial judgment? you we...

>> i think there were certain things, certainly, that we would like to explore that go beyond the report. we will be doing our hearing after the judiciary committee so we will get some sense of how worth while it is to fight with him over areas outside the report. >> reporter: so a little bit of a preview there. i also pressed him on what some of the critical questions are he is going to put to mueller. he said, one of them will be if he, in fact, thinks president trump should be charged once he...

Provide that information or whether he will say its too much in the weeds of my investigation and not in the report, i wont talk about it. >> mueller wrote that if he could exonerate the president he would when it comes to obstruction. we are left with the question of how the absence of incense is not guilt. will mueller be able to explain that? >> will he be able to explain it inprobably but not to the committee. i think he is just not geeg to go beyond what we saw in the report. the obvious qu...

Its been 125 days since releasing his report. heres what the chairman of the house committee says this morning. >> this is a presidents who is violated the law six ways from sunday. if anyone elsz had been accused of what the report finds the husband presidents had done, they would have been indicted. >> its a pretty damming set of facts showing a campaign welcoming help from a hostile foreign pow. >> shows evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeans. >> joining me execut...

Appearances before congress, mr. mueller showed a little patience for politics and grew weary with the partisanship that came with legislation oversight. will mueller be a reluctant witness you think or will he end up being the democrats hero in all of this? >> neither. hes reluctant. he doesnt want to be there. this is like one long root canal with him. remember he agreed to show up rather than litigating, what everyone in the administration is doing. i have seen some of those 88 appearances. h...

Found. two to two and a half hour split roughly between republicans and democrats. one democratic member, karen bass, told me thats not enough time to get to the executive summery of the more than 400-page report. another member told me, madeleine dean, she would be disappointed if she didnt have an opportunity to question the special counsel. ive heard from a number of other members as well. behind-the-scenes they have been discussing how to extend the time, whether the special counsel would ag...

Endorse candidates to the left, as some of their moderate colleagues, and challenges to sitting encouple bents. so this is a very real problem for democratic leaders who are worried about what that might mean politically but these are people who ultimately are representing communities that havent been representing congress. so i think they have to be very careful in how they talk about their concerns and they dont want to seem dismissive because the democratic base is ultimately powered by women...

To get questions answered. theyre trying to guy topics. to figure out what they can do to further the narrative that they want robert mueller to lay out. which are alleged criminal wrongdoing by this president. the question, of course, what will mueller ultimately be able to answer. democrats today also lowering expectations of sorts and raising concerns about not having enough time to get the questions answered and offering a warning also to some of the members. take listen. >> what would you h...