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If there was one thing we learned from robert muellers public comments yesterday its just how different he sees things than attorney general william barr, differences in his role and the law. john avalon has a reality check. >> i think this is what happens when the last honest man in washington confronts a blizzard of lies. with robert muellers first and perhaps final comments as special counsel we learned a lot about his puzzling punt on obstruction. we now know that president trump was never i...

Wrongdoing. >> so the justice department opinion that says you cant charge a president says, first, 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 ind...

>> we investigated efforts to obstruct the investigation. the matters we investigated were of paramount importance in which critical for us to obtain full and accurate information from every person we questioned. when a subject of an investigation obstructs that investigation, or lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the governments effort to find the truth and hold wrong doers accountable. the departments written policy explains our handling of the obstruction investigation. the opin...

Requires a process other than the criminal justice system to 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 testif...

Mccains in service to their country. and that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight on "all in". >> if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> robert mueller finally speaks. >> we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. >> and tells congress effectively, its their job to deal...

President did commit a crime. the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> was he telling congress impeachment is the only way forward? >> i sure think he was teeing that up as the most viable option. i would take what he said a little bit differently, that there may have been evidence, he found insufficient evidence to indict the president, but clearly, at least my reading and understanding of what he said, i...

For the president instead of the attorney general. so what i think is that mueller laid out the obstructive acts and he said, congress, its your responsibility to look and to see if you can hold the president accountable for wrongdoing for crimes, for misdemeanors, as the constitution provides. >> i do think thats what he should have at least said. this is being written for congress to decide, not the justice department. >> even the referral. we dont know if its an actual referral to congress or...

President when he was watching bob mueller? characterize his reaction when he was watching that. >> sure. it was what you saw just now on the south lawn. he was fine with it because this is nothing new. the investigation is closed and we did learn that robert mueller was not going to go to congress. >> bill: he wasnt fine with it. >> he is angry at the fact it continues on and theyre trying to attack him even though there is no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever. there is no collusion. it is ...

Claims that the investigation had cleared him of any wrongdoing. if we 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 the president did commit a crime and also stressed that charging the president with a crime was not an option his office could consider justice department policy holds that it is unconstitutional to charge a president with a federal crime while hes in office. trumped reacted with a quick...

What mueller wants. i want to read what bill barr said in his four page summary, barr said the special counsels decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the attorney general to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime. mueller says the opposite. mueller says the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing, that would ...