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Yesterday force nancy pelosis hand on impeachment? there are new a growing number of democrats calling for impeachment. mueller broke more than two years of silence on the russia investigation saying his report did not clear president trump of any wrongdoing or crimes, but charging him was never an option because of the justice department guidelines. it is congresss job to hold the president accountable now for any wrongdoing. what will congress do today? mueller hopes to avoid testi testifying....

Barr couldnt do it. that is a implicit slam, of barr that he shouldnt be doing it and number two that he didnt tell the truth in the april press conference when he suggested mueller was not using that for a reason why he wasnt indicting the president. >> except the issue for implicit is a license to confuse a whole lot of people. watch this. >> under long standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. the opinion sa...

Investigators, it strikes at the core of the governments effort to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. departments written opinion explaining the policy makes several important points that further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation. the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doing. the report describes the results and analysis of our obstruction of justice investi...

It highlights the tension you see where democratic party voters want to hold the president accountable for issues that they believe he committed, the wrongdoing they believe he committed. however, candidates want to be a little more cautious in their approach because they think they can alienate some of their potential voters. >> mike, are you still with us? there you are. what have you heard from people showing up to these biden events? we saw some of those numbers that steve kornacki laid out ...

Needs to care about. >> shannon: from the time that barr released the report, there have been democrats saying hes given us the road map to impeachment. heres what congressman jerry nadler said, he is the chairman of the house judiciary committee, that is where impeachment would start. >> as mueller highlighted this morning, it falls to congress to respond to crimes, lies and other wrongdoing of president trump. >> shannon: whats the pro and con of the democrats going down this path? >> i think ...

Something was possible when it wasnt? suspicious. however, what is not suspicious is mr. muellers mindset. he put it in writing back in march when he complained about mr. barrs four-page memo, that it did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of mr. muellers work. he said his hands were tied as his first point in that part of the report and the man described as a sphinx for the last two years doubled down today. >> under longstanding department policy a president cannot be charged ...

Was about determining if there was wrongdoing. if that wasnt the purpose of the investigation and he couldnt say it that way, then this was a fools errand. what was he doing? and i think if he said it clearly, then i think the american public would say, okay, i understand that congress can proceed. but right now, i mean you have so many different interpretations of what the report means or is saying. >> did mueller play this too close to the vest, donna? >> i think the statement that he made yes...

To life the mueller report and as trump might put it, see what happens. congress current strategy is an incoherent muddle. i thought that was a fair critique by somebody who we know he thinks this is a very troubling report. >> i think so. but i think what they need to do right now is to clarify to the american public their point of view that there was -- that there clear low was obstruction of justice. right now referring to the mueller report, but frankly, you know, ive been critical of the re...

Formally accuse a president of wrongdoing. so, not case closed, just a different kind of case. and what he was doing, he would never -- bob mueller would never instruct congress and say, i think you need to impeach him. thats not who he is. but he would say, this is a -- this is a possibility because there is that process. so case not closed. if i were congress, i would try to have -- get don mcgahn up there, get other people to testify, and make their case to the american public. >> i want to p...

>> a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. >> now, mr. mueller said this is my first and hopefully last time speaking about the russia probe. not so sure about that. congress wants to hear from him. now, both speaker pelosi and house judic...