the long-standing guidance from the justice department on not indicting a sitting president really weighed on the special counsel's team here and the difference between what they're saying and what the attorney general had said a couple weeks ago. we had the sound from the attorney general bill barr announcing the closing of the investigation. i want to play for you what the attorney general told me on that day. >> mr. attorney general, we don't have the report in hand. so could you explain for us the special counsel's articulated reason for not reaching a decision on obstruction of justice and if it had anything to do with the department's long standing guidance on not indicting a sitting president and disagreeing with legal theories. what did you disagree with him on? >> i leave it to his description in the report, the special counsel's own articulation of