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Out his four-page summary was the two men were in a fight, and one showed up with a gun and another showed up with a knife, and barr won. what the question is for mr. mueller, whats his higher duty? is it to defend his report and does that have -- does that require him to go out beyond his comfort zone when his report is being so eroded by a take no prisoners attorney general barr? >> yeah, and thats actually why im hoping theres two comfort zones in the hearing. muellers and aaron -- >> remembe...

>> true. >> well, the president has told us that he intends to fight all the subpoenas. his continued efforts to interfere with investigations of his potential misconduct certainly reinforce the importance of the process the constitution requires to "formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing," as you cited in the report. this hearing has been very helpful to this committee, as it exercises its constitutional duty to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment against the presi...

And 88 of volume two. you conclude the attempt to remove the special counsel would qualify as an obstructive act if it would obstruct the inquiry and any grand jury. >> yes, i have it, thank you. >> the second element is obstructing an official proceeding, true? >> true. >> does the special counsels investigation into the potential wrongdoing of donald trump constitute an official proceeding? >> thats an area which i cannot get into. >> okay. president trump tweeted on june 16th, 2017, quote, i ...

Tonight a spokesman for mueller said aaron dzebley was a deputy special counsel. he will accompany special counsel mueller to the hearing as was discussed more than a week ago. muellers more than 148-page report clearly shows conduct by the president that at the absolutely most charitable, if you really bend over backwards, demonstrates a profound failure to uphold his oath to faithfully execute the laws of the united states. at the worst, it constitutes not only high crimes and misdemeanors, bu...

The gentle lady from texas. >> director mueller, you wrote in your report that you "determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment." was not in part because of an opinion by the deferment of justice office of legal counsel that a sitting president cant be charged with a crime? >> yes. >> director mueller, at your ma, he explained that "the opening the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president o...

Status of this witness and his fitness to give his testimony. i say that in sadness. mueller has had an iconic law enforcement career. this was really pedalled as impeachment round one or the most important round of impeachment. when mueller gave his statement on may 29th, he said the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doing. piggybacking off that, thattedlered -- chairman nadler of the judicialry committee began...

Attorney general to step in and limit your work. and he attempted to prevent witnesses from cooperating with your investigation. although department policy barred you from indicting the president for misconduct, you made clear that he is not exonerated. any other person who acted in this way would have been charged with crimes. and in this nation, not even the president is above the law. which brings me to this committees work. responsibility, integrity and accountability. these are the marks by...

>> director mueller, you wrote in your report that you, quote, determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, end quote. was that in part because of an opinion by the department of justice office of legal counsel that a sitting president cant be charged with a crime? >> yes. >> director mueller, at your may 29th, 2019 press conference, you explained that, quote, the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sit...

Russia, correct? >> those decisions probably were made in the counter -- the fbi. >> but not in your report, correct? >> not in my report. we avert to the counter intelligence goals of our investigation, which were secondary to any criminal wrongdoing that we could find. >> lets talk about one administration official in particular, namely. donald trump. other than trump tower moscow, your report does not address or detail the presidents final ties or dealings with correct? >> correct. >> similar...

Characterization, the facts as laid out in the report are accurate. >> martha: let me ask you this about robert mueller today, was it frustrating for you as a questionnaire to lay out those questions and to try to sort of build what you were going for their and to have him not sort of you know be as sharp as i think a lot of people expected he would be? >> i spent a lot of time in courtrooms and mr. mueller was a prosecutors prosecutor. a man of few words who acknowledged what he had written in ...