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Found a crime, but for the existence of the olc opinion. and he made it very clear, several times, that that was not his position. >> reporter: today, mueller appeared to point the obstruction issue to congress, ramping up the pressure on capitol hill for impeachment. >> the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> reporter: mueller also making clear that his personal preference is not to...

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 be...

>> i believe negotiations are either stalled or are being someti stymied or stonewalled by attorney general william barr. attorney general william barr had a very, very, very bad day in the press today. getting no love, no safe harbor from folks at fox news or close trump ally former federal prosecutor, candidate for attorney general himself, chris christie. here he is. >> yep, it is. listen, i do think those comments by bob mueller about the other processes, obviously impeachment being the only...

>> reporter: instead, mueller reignited the impeachment debate tonight on capitol hill, suggesting its now up to congress. >> the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> reporter: while mueller himself dashed hopes of serving as their star witness. >> now, i hope and expect this to be the only time that i will speak to you in this manner. the report is my testimony. >> reporter: the 74-y...

Footnote -- one line in a footnote about the business of whether congress -- impeachment, he didnt use the word today. but it did seem interesting to me that in this relatively short summary of a 440 plus page report he did choose to say this. the opinion, meaning the report says the constitution requires -- means the justice departments opinion on whether you can charge a president -- requires a process over than the criminal justice system to formally accuse the president of wrong doing. i tho...

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 not allow them to gain evidence for future action. >> it is a process other than the criminal justice system. to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> but attorney general william barr testified to the long-standing justice department regulations known as the olc opinion was not muell...

Profile for more than two years, robert mueller today delivered his first and only remarks on the findings of his investigation. in doing so, he made clear that he was found to the justice departments legal opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted while in office. but in a devastating blow, mueller specifically said that the evidence he gathered does not clear the president of obstruction of justice. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we wou...

Records looks like its going fast. trump has lost twice. >> whats the sanction for the president after all the hearings if its not impeachment? >> what is going to happen is i think the release of these documents is first is its own sanction to him. it tends to split the republican coalition. it tends to cast light where exactly -- hes telling you -- hes like in the old colombo detective story, hes telling you thats the door not to open. >> the person responsible for holding impeachment proceedi...

Charge the president or not and why wasnt he charged? >> i think its critical that it came today after he did not take questions. but he highlighted an important fact that was just a footnote in his overall report which is what -- the fact that he said that the path forward for accusing a president of wrongdoing is not the criminal justice system which leaves a door wide open. its a door that this attorney general shut when he made that decision not to bring prosecution on the issue of obstructi...

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