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Something critical to our democracy and they found systematic interference from a foreign government and private internet people who were coming in to influence our election and our opinions via social media. we saw that in the indictment. he wanted to emphasize that. other things that have happened since his report was this idea that there is another process in order to find the president wrong doing. in order to investigate criminal wrong doing by the president. it shouldnt be through the crim...

Under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is uncontusional. the opinion says the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doing. >> that was robert muellers way of saying congress, im passing the ball to you. heres how house judiciary chairman, jerry nadler responded today. >> mueller again highlighted this morning it falls to congress to respo...

Independent manner. >> ed: honest, fair, independent. both men assured all of us of that point even though it was not exactly fair to hillary clinton to say she is not being charged but basically she may have broken the law. think of it this way after comeys mishand ling of the clinton probe he went on to investigate president trump. oversaw surveillance of trump advisors, spying as some have called it thats now under investigation, too. comey continues wrongdoing there but already admitted to l...

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 li 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...

White house press secretary sarah sanders reiterated that in a statement and implied that mueller left it up to attorney general bill barr to come to that conclusion which frankly he did not do. robert mueller did not make a conclusion on obstruction. but he didnt say bill barr, i would like you to come to this conclusion. and bill barr did and that is what the white house is going on now. and she also added in some comments to reporters not long ago that she and the white house believe it was m...

Report, that maybe they assembled it all and said can we charge him with a crime. i guess we cant. its quite clear they knew that going in. his summary of the report though doesnt go an inch beyond what the report says. it is a very accurate summary of what the report said. i did think it was interesting that given this report is 440 plus pages long, he did choose to pull out of it what is a very brief mention plus a footnote in section two of the report on obstruction when he said the opinion m...

To the congress. >> as you put it, madam speaker. and, john, speak to the quote that is on the screens of americans watching television right now, mueller resigns, and he says only congress may accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing which builds on the point youre making. >> again, to use the phrase that benjamin franklin inserted in the declaration of independence, he had written that we had sacred rights. he suggested you make it self-evident. it was self-evident to me that this was a seriou...

Citizen, you may want to look at this then. so congress, you can look at it, future prosecutors, you may look at it, i couldnt look at it. and while i couldnt exonerate him, i didnt charge him. >> justin amash -- you going to do it? go ahead. >> justin amash from michigan, republican, something of an outlier in the republican caucus, has been very critical of president trump, especially on issues having to do with the constitution. go ahead, dana. >> well, it just says right there, the ball is i...

>> this is a hoax. >> they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the clinton campaign. >> how could you obstruct when theres no crime. >> when a subject of that investigation obstructs that investigation or lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the governments effort to find the truth. >> theyre trying to get a redo. >> the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoi...

That was why he was nitrogen, because youre not allowed to. and he said, no, its because theres not enough evidence." he definitely muddied the water. how was the president reacting to that? >> secretary sanders: if bob mueller had thought there was wrongdoing and was sure of it, he would have had a moral obligation to say that. he didnt. in fact, he did the opposite. he concluded that there was no collusion, there was no conspiracy, unless the determination about obstruction up to the attorney ...