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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. trump reacted with a quick tweet saying there was insufficient evidence and that therefore he was innocent case closed. but congressional democrats believe statement confirms that they are right to pursue their...

Be charged now. and second, the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> a process other than the criminal justice system. theres only another process. come on, think. critical thinking. it sounds like the special counsel is calling for congress to pick up where he left off. that process has a name. it begins with the letter "i." impeachment. mueller may not have said the "i" word, but yo...

There was a stark repudiation of his attorney general and president. second, in terms of content, i thought it was interesting what did he choose to highlight? he held up the report and could not charge a president under legal counsel guidance, congress is the only branch of government that can bring charges now against a sitting president. he noted that if he was confidence that the president had not committed crimes, he would have clearly said so, which is a very odd phrase. lawyerly polite wa...

Douglas, ill start with you. mueller was clear. the president didnt commit a crime he would have said so. and the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to accuse a sitting president of wrong doing. is he telling congress to open impeachment proceedings? >> if hes pointing toward the door and telling them to go through in my mind. one of the great founding founders of the america james madison talked about constitution education. that for democracy to work we have...

U.s. special counsel robert muller breaks his silence he says his reporting to russian election meddling does not exonerate president dollar trump from criminal wrongdoing. hello and welcome im a pleasure to have your company. rescues and with the best said this quote minimal chance of finding survivors after a boat accident on the danube late on wednesday a storm sank a sightseeing vessel with more than 30 south korean tourists on board of the 7 are confirmed dead so far after emergency service...

2016 election monitor has contradicted white house claims and says his report does not exonerate the president of committing crimes he added that it is the job of u.s. congress to hold the president accountable reason the prospect that house democrats could begin impeachment proceedings. the justice department gave washingtons media less than 2 hours to prepare for the special counsel statement in the 2 years since his appointment robert miller had never publicly commented on the investigation b...

Okay. okay. bob mueller made clear yesterday that he was done, closing up shop and going back into private life, and he also made very clear that the next steps, if any, are up to congress. listen. >> the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> while there have been calls from democrats for a long time from some to move towards impeachment, muellers public appearance seems to have been the final straw for e...

Said so. >> the power of the spoken word. that was the bottom line. if mueller had confidence president trump did not commit a crime, hed say so, but he couldnt say so. hearing mueller say that was a moment in history and makes us wonder what president trump and his administration heard. because just listen to them. >> we consider this very much to be case closed. >> he said the case is done. >> and president tweeting those same words. the operative words. the case is closed. thank you. case clo...

>> the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doing. and beyond department policy, we were guided by principles of fairness. it would be unfair to potentially -- 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 conclude...

The departments written opinion explaining the policy makes several important points that further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation. those points are summarized in our report and i will 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 were co-conspirators who could ...