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>> well, well try to negotiate. well try everything else first, but if we have to, yes, we will certainly issue subpoenas to get that information. >> and youre going to be willing to take that all the way up to the supreme court if you have to? >> absolutely. by the way, the -- we are already hearing that the president may want to claim executive privilege on some of this. and -- but the fact is, he has no right to claim executive privilege on any evidence of wrongdoing, executive privilege cann...

Concern told is that this wont an word for word. it will be a way for the toeg to distill what he found from the mueller findings. the question is how much will be satisfactory for members of choong are demanding that they want to see everything. the more the better for them. we do know that in the weeks since bill barr took office, one of the things hes been wrestling with is how much detail he can provide. one of the things the justice department rules say is that if charges are not brought ag...

Ways and subverting the constitution to various different ways. as we know from the supreme court decided privilege cannot be used to shield wrongdoing and certainly they should not get an advanced look at the report. the report should go public in its entirety and see where the chips fall. >> lets do a tea leaf reading on the little that we know could the justice department says the special counsel is not recommending any new indictments. that means no one will have been -- has been or will hav...

>> trey, can i call you trey, congressman. >> thats the nicest thing ive been called all day. >> let me read you tweets from congressman jerry nadler, chair of committee, first of all, special counsel mueller worked to determine the extent to which president trump obstructed justice, attorney general barr took 2 days to tell the american people that while the president is not exonerated theyll be no action by the justice department. he goes onto say, there must be full transparency in what speci...

Subpoenas in an investigation, the clinton e-mail investigation in which no one was indicted. information about hillary clinton, bruce ohr, lisa page, peter strok, for the department to maintain they never provide information in cases that dont result in indictment, and 880,000 pages demonstrate that. they did so because there was an intense public interest and need to know and because congress insisted, and the case for public disclosure here with allegations that are far more serious is much m...

Executive privilege on some of this and the fact is, he has no right to claim executive privilege on any evidence of wrongdoing, executive privilege cannot shield evidence of wrongdoing. >> new concerns from ju didicia chair nadler as questions emerge whether the president, his team or attorney general barr will work to bury criminality in muellers row poeport. joining me now we have melissa murray with us and former federal prosecutor and legal analyst glen kurshner. lawyers at the white house ...

Theres been wrongdoing, whats next? >> if the report actually says donald trump committed a number of crimes and that they cant indict because hes a sitting president it will be up to congress to hold donald trump accountable, which means we have to see the entire report and all of its contents. we didnt do our job under the way the framework set up the constitution without this information. >> so if you cant indict a sitting president, is it really a surprise that mueller concluded his investig...

And second engage in any ethical misconduct whether or not it rose to the level of crime. those investigations will continue. >> point well taken. democrats and republicans this morning could not at all agree on whether there was collusion or obstruction because of the news no further indictments by the special counsel. can it ever be business as usual between congress and the white house at this point? >> its hard to speculate without knowing what the report actually says. this report could exo...

Blumenthal, who said they have evidence of criminality and wrongdoing, what set of facts were looking at that robert mueller did not? lets be out with this information already. for the trump campaign, why all the lies? why all the lies regarding contacts with russian officials? in the bill barr memo, it says that many russian affiliates made offers of campaign help to the trump campaign that they did not act upon. maybe thats why they lied. or maybe its the reason michael cohen is going to a jai...

880,000 pages demonstrate that. they did so because there was an intense public interest and need to know and because congress insisted, and the case for public disclosure here with allegations that are far more serious is much more compelling. in the case of hillary clinton who did not win the election, she was not in a position to cover through the justice department any evidence of wrongdoing. this president is, and this president there is, i think, all too much evidence has tried to interfer...