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To the edge. and then the question is going to be, does he know something that we havent seen? we have to inspector general report coming. i think thats going to be a very significant document to see exactly how the ig lay its out and if it finds wrongdoing and if it does, the president will shout that to the rooftops saying they were vindicated but the devil will be in the details. in terms of how this plays out, its the next big shoe to drop, next thing we have to look for. >> unfortunately, n...

Justice department -- to be clear for your viewers, a sitting president cant be dwoo indicted, right. >> so if a sitting president 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? so if -- because assuming that barr accepts the validity of the guidance that his own department put out. you know, its confusing but hes created a bit of a muddle here and he should have just sent i...

First public statement, several members of congress have now come out in favor of starting the process of impeachment. some saying mueller left them no choice. by putting the ball in congresss court. >> under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we can consider. >> the opinion said that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to ...

Theres a fine line between just acknowledging that somebody is probably cooperating, maybe having quite genuine concerns that there might be serious national security things you are about to spill over to the government that we should probably know about so i dont think theres anything too nefarious to read into it. a difficult spot being. he was fishing for some information but what his motives were sinister is a hard question to answer. mike: final thought? >> fishing is exactly what was happe...

Department guidance, and, you know, barr accepts that the justice department -- to be clear for your viewers, a sitting president cant be indicted, right. so if a sitting president 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? so if -- because assuming that barr accepts the validity of the guidance that his own department put out. you know, its confusing but hes created a b...

On the right side of the ledger, donald rumsfeld, there were probably a number of known unknowns. we know several cases were spun up, some of which were sealed and so on. look, as we learned today, theres information thats alluded to or written about in the report that we just havent seen yet. now, this particular -- the voicemail that came up today between john dowd, the presidents attorney and one of the attorneys for flynn, you know, its alluded to and quoted in the report, but the extent of ...

Spinoffs, that are still out there, what do you reckon percentage we dont know yet? >> well then ill quote someone on the right side of the ledger, donald rumsfeld, there were probably a number of known unknowns. we know several cases were spun up, some of which were sealed and so on. look, as we learned today, theres information thats alluded to or written about in the report that we just havent seen yet. now, this particular -- the voicemail that came up today between john dowd, the presidents...

Cleared him. the good statement of the public believe he does not anything wrong and we sell the town hall all the republicans in the district in grand rapids michigan came out and heard him talk about why he thanks there should be impeachment proceedings, a broker to some folks in that world that is evidence of wrongdoing and it probably set down and had to point out those pieces for the president has potentially committed wrongdoing that may change the public perception of what is going on. >>...

Doing is make it non political. we need democrats and republicans. his people have come to him and said this guy needs to be impea impeached. >> lone republican. >> that can grow. the difference impeachment of the clinton impeachment. republicans voted another way. in the nixon case, because of the effort and way we went about it, that was not considered a partisan issue. i think that we have to show the evidence and continue in the manner we are doing. the american people will see it. republica...

Authorities from all over this area trying to help this community figure out how such a horrible thing could happen. >> employees minds were on the weekend. now their lives are changed forever. ron allen, thank you so much. joining us from virginia beach this morning. lets turn to politics and the debate over special counsel robert muellers message. raging on. his unexpected appearance is leading washington to parse comments like this one. >> the opinion says that the constitution requires a p...