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Serious crime that strikes at the core of our justice system. three, the constitution points to congress to take action to hold the president accountable for his misconduct. unfortunately, special counsel miller withdraws unabwas unable pursue criminal charges against president because department of justice policy prevents a sitting president from being prosecuted. i think that policy is wrong, but it prevented the special counsel from pursuing justice to the fullest extent as possible. therefor...

Youre going to do, whether its impeachment. he didnt mention the word, obviously, but he made it very clear, i think, that there were still other things congress could do. and in reading jerry nadlers statement, a couple of things are interesting to me. one is, he didnt say, were going to demand bob mueller come and testify. we, you know, bob mueller made it very clear, im sorry. even if you had me up there, id effectively read from my report to you. so what would be the point of having me up th...

Justice system to formally accuse a president of wrong doing. you dont need to be rand mcnally to see that road map. he was virtually announcing congress, do your job. >> also joined now by -- rejoined i should say, barbara mcquade is with me and so is frank figliuzzi. another top line and bob mueller saved this to the end perhaps wanting to remind all of us, one of the biggest takeaways here, the fact that the russians tried, on numerous occasions -- in fact, i think we have the sound. lets tak...

Russians masquerading as american citizens. theres the discussion of whats called the olc memo, the office of legal counsel in the justice department behind me. its like the internal lawyer for the executive branch. what robert mueller said today is that his hands were tied because of this long-standing justice department policy that you cant indict a sitting president. in other words, it didnt matter what the evidence was. robert mueller said today that he could not proceed with an indictment. ...

System to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> well, thats impeachment. as one author of a book on robert mueller wrote today on twitter, mueller is in his own mueller-like way screaming for presidential impeachment proceedings. but hes too respectful to say it as directly as america and congress evidently needs him to say it. likewise, congressman justin amash, the only republican lawmaker to publicly support impeachment said on twitter, the ball is in our court, congress. and ...

Determination as to whether or not the president did commit a crime. >> mueller said he could not have charged president trump with a crime even if he wanted to. >> under long standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. even if the charge is kept under seal and middle from public view, that is also impossible. charging him with a crime is not something that we could do. the opinion says that the constitution requ...

I am told that his reaction to that was that it was my prerogative as attorney general to make that decision. >> the opinion says that constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> im joined now by matt miller who has set up exactly the kind of press conferences just saw there at the justice department and former prosecutor john flannery. matt, what was mueller getting at in the careful way he laid out the argument...

Among other things, that evidence could be used if there were co-conspirators who could 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. and beyond department policy, we were guided by principles of fairness. it would be unfair to potentially -- it would be unfair to potentially accuse something of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge. i ...

Interference in the election. >> that is what he read from when he began talking about that first indictment, a year ago, june. peter alexander, the president tweeted and now sarah sanders issued a statement. the tweet nothing changes from the mueller report. there was insufficient evidence and in our country a person is incident. the case is closed. thank you. now sarah sanders statement and it seems to me she is certainly putting her own spin and cherry picking what has happened here today. >>...

Serious crime that strikes at the core of our justice system. three, the constitution points to congress to take action to hold the president accountable for his misconduct. unfortunately, special counsel mueller was unable to pursue criminal charges against the president because department of justice policy prevents a sitting president from being prosecuted. that policy, in my opinion, is wrong, but it prevented special counsel from pursuing justice to the fullest extent possible. therefore, as...