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Team didnt exonerate president trump or charge them with a crime of obstruction saying he was constrained by existing regulations. >> under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. >> without using the word impeachment or naming congress, mueller said the regulations did allow the team to gather evidence for future action. >> the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to fo...

For any wrongdoing. so far just one republican member of congress, justin amash, said the president committed impeachable offenses. this is what he wrote yesterday after listening to robert mueller. the ball is in our court, congress. for more im joined by cory whalen, a former communications director for amash. justin amash wont talk to the press directly about this. its great to hear from you. one of the things he said is hes heard from other republicans who share similar views. they are just ...

Other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> mueller reiterated at times almost verbatim the main findings of his report, the russians engaged in an attack to sabotage the american election and help trump get elected. that mueller was unable to establish sufficient evidence to charge members of the trump campaign or u.s. persons with criminal conspiracy with that effort despite evidence that they actively encourage and sought out that help from ...

Vietnam. mcmaster served. kelly served. mattis served. every time the president gets face-to-face at a senior level with someone who actually served he goes back to bone spurs. he wants out. so he can talk about honor and how he loves the military, but face-to-face, doesnt seem to work out too well. >> its interesting, laura. the justice department ethics lawyers cleared mueller of any conflict of any wrongdoing, among other things. they addressed the issues. as for muellers interview for fbi di...

And, you know, to be clear and to stomp on a point that i think will make the first paragraph of william barrs obituary some day, what robert mueller made clear today is the determination as to whether or not charge the president, the decision to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing, that is not to be made within the whole criminal justice system, which means its not to be made by the special counsels office within the justice department. its not to be made by the justice department...

Are the 11 instances, congress it is up to you. you could criticize him to the extent you made a definitive conclusion as it relates to russia, why not suggest there seems to be something here as it relates to obstruction of justice but congress, it is not my job since i cant proceed, you guys take it and run with it which is what hes doing it. >> so he left the bread crumbs and said congress it is up to you because democrats have said mueller was calling congress when you said the constitution ...

For the olc opinion he would have found a crime. he made it clear that he had not made the determination that there was a crime. >> the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> the deputy attorney general akon colluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. >> joining me now, joyce vance and also matt mil...

The special counsels office is part of the department of justice and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider. the departments written opinion explaining the policy makes several important points that further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation. >> so it seems that is robert mueller was saying that the justice departments rule against indicting a president was at least a major facto...

Really what im working on. >> interesting. well, look, we do a lot of subjects here. we can get into a lot of stuff. bob mueller broke his silence yesterday and said this is an issue for the congress if theres a wrongdoing to be accused so it is a big news story, i dont think thats in debate. before i move on to the panelists, sir, what do you think is the most important thing for congress to do now given what he said and resigned. >> investigate. do what sam irvin did with his investigative com...

The opinion says the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. it would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge. so that was justice department policy. those were the principles under which we operated and from them we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime. >> that w...