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House minority whip suggests for now they should just carry on with investigations surrounding the president. >> i dont think those of us are saying that impeachment is not the answer. the question then becomes what is the proper time for us to start this process? lets build public support and then we may have reached the time to launch the impeachment inquest. i dont think were there yet. >> a bit earlier i asked a house democrat who does not support impeachment whether an impeachment inquiry c...

Process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> reporter: barr says its not the justice departments job to investigate crimes to help congress. >> but he had his reasons for not doing, which he explained. >> reporter: the attorney general also explaining this moment. >> reporter: i think there was spying did occur. yes, i think spying did occur. >> theres nothing wrong with spying, its whether its authorized by law and properly predicated. ...

Have said, you know, you heard him in the cbs interview. he says he thinks mueller should have decide, that even if you cant indict the president, if he believe the president committed a crime he should have said that. mueller looks tat, the same facts and says its not fair for me to accuse the president of a crime if i cant actually have him defend himself against, it so he was caught, you know, both by the idea that you cant indict a sitting president and by the fact that its unfair to accuse ...

Turmoil and discontent over failure of his summit with trump. by most accounts, that diplomatic debacle surprised, embarrassed, angered the dictator who experts believe is looking for a fall guy. >> kim needs to be looking for some kind of explanation to say what went wrong other than i made a bad choice and believed that i could negotiate with these guys and at the end of the day maybe that wasnt really the right choice to begin with. >> reporter: if kim did kill a top diplomat, analysts say it...

Transcription appears in the mueller report, so it was familiar to me. as you read it, you can see it is very halting, from trumps attorney to michael flynns attorney. it is worrying about the relationship, that the relationship is cut off. is there any implicating evidence against the president, he is hoping to learn something through the attorney, and remember, tell mr. flynn he still has good feelings for him. it is a strange, halting, troubling communication between the presidents lawyer, an...

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>> yep. >> drawn. then he says he disagrees with parts of it. so its hard to analyze that without the specificity. >> what do you make of it? when you read that -- i guess the bottom line is, again, we didnt for a long time get to read that report. we only had barrs interpretation of it. and he definitely had the home-court advantage on being able to put out an interpretation that many americans have now taken to believe didnt find anything, any wrongdoing on the presidents part. then some peopl...

Americans were against it. at the same time here is whats very different about today, bill clinton had something like a 70% approval rating. this president is barely cracking 40. and 56% of the american people already believe that hes guilty of wrongdoing. so it wouldnt take as much of a push there once you get that information before the american people. the problem is they dont have it and here is the challenge to your theory, though, donny, is that how do you get the witnesses because this is...

Engaged in criminal activity. lets speak to former pral prosecutor gene rossi as well as white house reporter for politico, eliana johnson. gene, if i can begin with you, i wonder how you reconcile those two comments from the sitting attorney general. on the one side, he says listen, bob mueller should have made a determination as to whether the president committed criminal wrongdoing, and then he says in the clearest terms possible or clearest terms since the report came out, well, he rejects t...

>> laura: it was bill barrs appearance that many were waiting for. while mueller prays the attorney general as acting in good faith in the process, he had language that raised the specter of disagreement between obstruction of justice. barr said mueller shirked his responsibility, which the ag repeated today. >> he could have reached a conclusion? >> he couldve reached a conclusion to indict a president of wrong doing in office. he couldve reached a decision whether it was criminal activity. >> ...