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Nadler refers to constitutional remedies, that is an important set of two words, because it doesnt mean legislation. constitutional remedies is a diplomatic reference to, yes, impeachment. it is the constitutions remedy and process other than the criminal justice system that accuses the president of wrongdoing. now if that language sounds a little familiar, did you hear like a little echo? it may be because the former special counsel used that exact language when he gave his resignation address ...

To see it in theaters. the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> they had said that they all wanted to be unspoken and many of them are resetting their views as well of those of their constituents. >> robert mueller appearing to hand the trip investigation and the possibility of impeachment over congress by house beginning nancy losey say not sos past.

President. >> john, take a look, then, at the sound of both of them now. we have again for the first time, barr and mueller on the idea that, yeah, some things go beyond the doj. >> absolutely. >> special counsel mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision to congress. i am told that his reaction to that was that it was my prerogative as attorney general to make that decision. >> the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice sys...

Couldnt be indicted and mueller didnt make a finding as to the presidents criminality, necessarily the body that would have to adjudicate that would be congress, right? because assuming that barr accepts the validity of the guidance that his own department put out. its confusing. but he create add bit of a muddle here. and he should have just sent it to congress. thats the body that can adjudicate whether the president engaged in wrongdoing. and i think he probably -- you know in -- in his desir...

Then when he seems to be saying coyly now, that he believes president trump committed a crime, so congress its your move. muellers implicit suggestion that congress can act if it chooses to has led an increasing number of democrats to conclude if impeachment is the process, the time to start it is right now. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> special counsel robert mueller closing the door on his own investigation and making i...

Impeachment inquiry after robert mueller said this. take a listen. >> if we have had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not make a determination as to whether the president commit a crime. the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accused the president of wrong doing. >> does that at all change your mind? do you believe he was making a referral to congress? >> yes, i do believe he was making a re...

We know there were several cases spun off some of which were sealed. and as we learned today there is information alluded to or written about in the report that we just havent seen yet. now this particular -- the voice mail that came up today between john dwoud, the presidents attorney and one of the attorneys for flynn. its alluded to and quoted in the report. but the extent and full language we havent seen yet. im sure there is plenty of that thats going to trickle out. none of this i think is...

All the things the media used to care about, they used to be defenders of our freedom and making sure we are not spied upon by the government, theres no interest in it, only interest in impeachment for lack of a crime which shows -- >> lets have a conversation about wrongdoing at the fbi. we can have hearings on this all we want but that does not take away the fact that in volume 2 of the mueller report he outlined 7 instances is president obstructed justice and republicans dont care or pay atte...

Ideas. ron is correct that it appears that the house democrats are realizing this process of educating the public about the wrongdoing of the president. the many indications of obstruction of justice is working. thats good for them politically no matter how it shakes out. >> a lot of americans are going to be angry about that. >> well, look, they believe they worn in 2018 by focusing on bread and butter issues. particularly the affordable care act. all of the work theyve been doing on gun contro...

>> lets discuss with natasha bertrand, national political correspondent with politico and msnbc contributor and mike isikoff, chief correspondent with yahoo! news. big welcome to you both. we had several democrats interpret this statement by bob mueller to mean he was referring to impeachment to congress. is that fair, michael, or are democrats overinterpreting? >> clearly the line that you just played in which mueller said the constitution has other mechanisms for holding a president accountabl...