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With -- but nothing they did was improper under doj rules or unethical. and i think mueller is a great public servant. ive never agreed with him about everything, but hes a man of integrity. and the irony is, this will end up helping the very man that attacked him relentlessly -- president trump. no one has ever accused mueller of being anything other than thorough. he said there is no crime connected with collusion. >> laura: it is kind of ironic, in the end, it looks like mueller, his conclusi...

The action, good evening, peter. >> theyve repeatedly urged americans to wait for the mueller report so that they could learn about the full extent of the russian collusion. but now those same democratic lawmakers are urging americans to wait to trust the report until the evidence is seen, even if it takes a subpoena of the special counsel. >> i would first argue that the department cannot adopt a double standard and should cooperate willingly. but if it doesnt, we will have to subpoena the evid...

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 for prereview or a sneak preview by the white house and the facts and evidence made public. theres no claim to executive privilege for a special counsel investigation that produces evidence of wrong doing. anybody can go to court. the courthouse doors are open to the white house and to the presidents lawyers and my hope is that it wil...

But nothing they did was improper under doj rules or unethical. and i think mueller is a great public servant. ive never agreed with him about everything, but hes a man of integrity. and the irony is, this will end up helping the very man that attacked him relentlessly -- president trump.gr no one has ever accused mueller of being anything other than thorough. he said there is no crime connected with collusion. >> laura: it is kind of ironic, in the end, it looks like mueller, his conclusions wi...

And we will are the right to call mueller or to testify before the committee or to subpoena him. >> reporter: so what gives? why do you have both sides agreeing on this issue? they agree for very different reasons. democrats want to dig deeper to see if president trump is implicated in any kind of wrongdoing. republicans on the other hand, think that this report after this 22-month investigation might clear him. and on that point i got to tell you in, talking to people close to the president, wh...

Judiciary -- and five other chairmen are saying were going to keep looking at everything from tax returns to whether hes benefited the emoluments clause, to all kinds of activities when he was just citizen trump, not president trump. gillian: and the nearly dozen cases open retaining to trump associates. >> absolutely. youve also got the southern district of new york, youve also got prosecutors here in washington, in virginia, and as i say, a half dozen congressional committees. chris coons, who...

General bar. we are tracking the reaction tonight. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers urged americans to wait for the mueller report so they could learn the full extent of russian collusion but now those same democratic lawmakers are urging americans to wait until the evidence is seen even if it takes a subpoena of the special counsel. >> i would first argue the department cannot adopt a double standard and should cooperate willingly but if it doesnt we can subpoena the evidence. we have to subpo...

Conspiracy with the russians. it didnt stop with no collusion. gillian: and the president has not been exonerated from other potential wrongdoing and thats what potentially democrats are hoping will be in the report. leland: let me ask it this way. do you worry youre taking a victory lap too early and getting a little in front of your skis in terms of what this report may or may not say when nobody knows whats in it? >> well, i dont because with all the leaking that had been going on, i think we...

Happen would be for parts of it to be redacted or covered up. it would just give the democrats more to say what is behind the redaction? what are we seeing? maybe there is the smoking gun there. we just need to wait for the facts and when theyre out, i think we all know that we can move ahead at that point. >> attorney general does have obligation to make reductions of items that grand jury testimony phrases or items that deal with national security, right? >> sure. and there are ways to inform ...

Julian castro. thank you for being here. i want to start by reading you the joint statement that was put out by congressman jarlds nadler, elijah cummings, maxine waterss, and to be clear if the special counsel has reason to believe that the president has engaged in criminal or other serious misconduct the justice department has an obligation not to conceal such information and must be subjected to accountability. if the justice department is unable to do so then the need to provide congress wit...