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Inability either to clear the president of a crime, since there was so much evidence of his criminality and like wise inability to charge him because they were barred by department of justice policy. ultimately, his appearance before the cameras represented a kind of passing of the constitutional baton from muellers office to congress, which mueller noted pointedly has the ability to formally accuse the president of wrongdoing. >> as set forth notice report after that investigation, if we had ha...

That a special counsel should nevertheless collect and preserve evidence of a presidents potential criminal behavior. why is that? why collect and preserve that evidence if you cant charge that president as a result of that evidence? well, among other things, if in fact there turns out to be evidence that shows a president may have committed crimes, well, you are going to need that evidence to indict the president for those crimes one way or the other. to bring charges. its just that indictment ...

Robert muellers statement makes it clear, congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately. what changed today that you felt compelled to issue that statement? >> well, it was more than just today. it was an evolution of me witnessing whats happening in the house. you have the house going in good faith trying to continue an investigation. nancy pelosi in a sober fashion talking about lets follow this evidence to the conclusions that it brings about. when you...

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 at all, which means presumably, that it is also not to be made by the top official at the justic...

Charging the president specifically because of the regulations against charging a sitting president. so why investigate at all? mueller hinted today at the reason. >> first the opinion explicitly permits the investigation of a sitting president because it is important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents available. among other things, that evidence could be used if there were co-conspirators who could be charged now. and second, the opinion says that the constitution requi...

Him. >> bret: pretty cool. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. thats it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. the story guest hosted tonight by sandra smith starts right now. >> good evening, thank you. and good evening, everybody. im sandra smith in for martha mccallum tonight and "the story" tonight. attorney general william barr taking the gloves off. his target robert mueller. barr rejecting the special counsels claims that the obstruction of justice decision was...

Further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation. those points are summarized in our report and ill describe two of them for you. first, the opinion explicitly permits the investigation of a sitting president because it is important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents available. among other things, that evidence could be used if there are co-conspirators that could be charged now. and second, the opinion says that therg constitution requirea process other th...

Justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doing. >> of course, that process is congress. and it is impeachment. mueller was clear. and by the way, you just look at volume 2, page 8 of the mueller report you didnt have to get to page 44le. volume 2 page eight. the conclusion that congress may apply the obstruction laws to the presidents corrupt exercise of the powers of office aaccordings with our constitutional system of checks and balances. and the principle that no person ...

Cheering for impeachment based on nothing. we will write the entire time. watch this. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether thev president did commit a crime. the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> sean: number one, mr. mueller doesnt know the law. hes basically full ofne, crap. the spe...

I think the unraveling of this shows its a mistake. putting a president on trial would be an undo interference with his executive powers, but indicting would clarify the circumstance. in defense of the policy of mueller, mueller wants you to know that whether something is technically a crime has little to do with whether it ought to be the kind of wrongdoing which should lead to impeachment, which is more profound. >> i thought his use of that word, its only congress that can formally accuse a p...