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Going to trigger a huge legal fight that will go on for sometime? >> not if the white house cooperates and avoids invoking a fake executive privilege. theres no executive privilege under these circumstances. to conceal evidence of criminal wrong doing or law breaking. >> you dont think they have any argument for executive privilege? there may be some conversations that had nothing to do with, or all the conversations, they had nothing to do with actual criminal activity. >> there is no grounds f...

For the presidents son, donald trump junior, and son-in-law, jared kushner. there was speculation of wrong-doing. >> what the country was led to understand is theres a serious question was there collusion between the twu trump campaign d russian interest. now we have at least no indictments. well see was there information and the like. but theres one really key thing that seems to me people should feel very good about. they should. whether they will or not is their business. >> reporter: over th...

Probably going to call the attorney general and/or special counsel mueller. >> just to follow up on the indictments issue i think if the president and his team are sitting around having drinks tonight celebrating, meaning no more indictments, meaning his family is clear, i think thats a bit premature. the southern district could easily bring charges against his family members for trump related issues. so i think weve got to read these thingsina narrowly -- >> you say they easily could if they fo...

Not just conclusions and there as much as the president maybe exulting in the lack of indictments, there are other potential facts and evidence of wrong doing that may not be chargeable criminally because bob mueller may have concluded that the department of justice policies have to be followed. sitting president cant be indicted or there may be lack of proof beyond a reasonable doubt but there still may be solid powerful evidence of wrong doing that congress and the american people should see...

The other important finding so far is that there were no conflicts between muellers team and barrs team. bob, tell us about that quickly. >> well, i think theres some heartening pieces about that. there seems to be, that this investigation was allowed to go on unimpeded and that rosenstein was allowed to stay on it and mueller was allowed on it and there are sealed indictments because i think that mueller-- at least what i would have done, in order to protect my position, would have farmed out a...

Prosecutors in new york, their their investigations can go on and on and on until they have, until they have that sense of confidence that there is no crimin criminality or they finished their investigation and this could go on for a come more years and with respect to the president with regard to the mueller report, we dont know what is in it, we are still waiting to he waiting to hear that but although weve had the signaling that no others have been indicted, we have seen the collision of poli...

My presidency. people will not stand for it. >> how did you hear that, people will not stand for it. this was an investigator that was chosen after he fired the fbi director. what did you get from that coming from the president? >> i dont understand this. the question that mueller faced was not to make a determination about the presidency, its to do what the department of justice does every day against gangs. against drug cartels, against white collar criminals, its to look at allegations that t...

That is you know, did special counsel come to the conclusion that no crimes were committed that were provable that could be brought? or did he make a determination that with regard to the president, it was not appropriate to bring charges because department of justice policy that would have precluded it. i suspect the answer to the question is that he found insufficient evidence. and it is a substantial finder because that of course covers not only the collision mandate but also with regard to o...

Maintains that a sitting president cannot be indicted to then with hold evidence of wrongdoing from congress because a sitting president cannot be charged is to convert justice department policy into the means for a coverup. anything less than full transparency would raise serious questions about whether the department of justice policy is being used as a pretext for a coverup of misconduct. strong words from those six democratic chairs tonight demanding not only the report itself but underlying...

Discharge its constitutional responsibilities, we expect the underlying evidence uncovered during the special investigation will be turned over to the relevant committees upon request." the underlying evidence. "to be clear if the special counsel has reason to believe that the president has engaged in criminal or other serious misconduct, then the justice department has an obligation not to conceal such information. because the justice department maintains that a sitting president cannot be indi...