Thousands and thousands of pages of documents dame kane thank you so much. Good to visit with both of you. Ed all right. Welcome to this knox news alert. Just sent the key findings from Special CounselRobert Muellers nearly 2year investigation into russian meddling impossible ties to the Trump Campaign to congress and theres a verdict. Im ed henry. And im dana perino, Attorney General barr sending to judiciary committees, highlights from the report including that special Counsel Robert Mueller did not exonerate President Trump of obstruction of justice or find that he committed a crime. Democrats are demanding Attorney General send over the whole thing. We will have complete coverage throughout this hour and this evening, lets start with molly, outside of Justice Department, you have been out there all day, worth the wait. Exactly, hi, dana, 2800 subpoenas, 500 Search Warrants, 50 witnesses interviewed. First look at Mueller Report, joining me now Fox Justice Department jay gibson who was in when it first came off the presses, he will break it down with us. Russia collusion, what stood out for you . They say the president or in one with Campaign Colluded and more to the point that despite multiple offers, also earlier on, just to get back to the news again, the Special Counsel did not recommend further indictments, so a lot of people who were wait to go see if Jared Kushner might be indicted or any of the president s family, according to this looks like thats a no. And then the second part collusion, no collusion by
this investigation. Multiple times, the investigation did not establish members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election, Interference Activity several times in the section. Lets move onto obstruction of justice, what stood out to you about that . This is interesting because the Special Counsel states while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him, however, later the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney general said that after reviewing the findings, that they concluded the evidence developed during the investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice. So Robert Mueller looked at report and believed that there was no obstruction of justice. Theres not enough for it to be that type of offense. As you read again and again, what does this mean for the president in your view . Well, i think that this has to be looked at it right now from what we have seen as victory to the president. Now, democrats and a lot of
people on the hill will want to see the entire report and Attorney General barr does say hes mindful of the Public Interest in this manner but he has to look at grand jury information to see what he can release. But for now this is all we get to see and for now youd have to say its a victory for President Trump. All right, Justice Department producer, dana, back to you, we are still reading through it, safe to say good news for the white house out of this report today. You have a give or understatement, i was at the white house right now, im also just thinking of how many people got caught up, how many had lawyers, people who are now in jail as a result of the threads that were pulled, lets go to White House Correspondent kevin corke from the north lawn. As im sure you know this is where you really are working the phones, youre calling every possible white house official that you could perhaps get
commentary, even oneword text might offer in window of thinking here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, after listening to barr summary and huge thanks to gibson, doing great job, it is obvious that this is circumstance that looks like at least at first blush that not only the president was right when there wasnt collusion, also looks apparent that there was no opportunity or intent to obstruct justice, that means so much when you think about what so many have been saying for the past 600 plus days as weve all been watching the Special Counsel do his work. What will the president have to say about it . So far nothing. We were frankly pretty surprised that the president didnt take to twitter early this morning even in the hours following the idea that we knew we would be hearing from the Attorney General, he said nothing about it. In fact, a couple of tweets today were fairly benign, have a great day, make America Great again, thats the sort of thing the president might put out on
random wednesday but so far nothing from the commander in chief in response to todays summary from william barr, guys. Kevin, i want to ask you, Lindsey Graham, of course, republican close to the president but has powerful position as chair, chair committee, he golfed with him today, in fact, in palm beach with trey gowdy and also Mick Mulvaney who obviously is the acting chief of staff. Here is the bottom line, graham says bad days for those hoping the Mueller Investigation would take President Trump down. Great job by mr. Mueller and his team graham said to thoroughly examine all things russia. Now is time to move on, govern the country and get ready to combat russia and other foreign actors ahead of 2020. So a couple of thoughts there, maybe the president doesnt need to tweet yet because he has allies like graham who will go out there and make the point for him but also talk about how this white house does try to turn the page because you have democrats
in the house who had a Conference Call yesterday regardless of what mueller says theyre investigating the president , his family, his business, his foundation, you name it, kevin. Yeah, spot on in your analysis, if youre thinking, all right, we are on to the next thing, we can move on. Thats not the way things work in washington. You bitter believe democrats will continue to dig for more information, detail about the Mueller Report, not just summary from the Attorney General, its not over. Its only better for the white house perspective if you can have surrogates get out there, in this case your friends like Lindsey Graham do the talking for you, not doing victory lab, ed, suffice to say they are feeling pretty good right now. Kevin corke, we will get back to you later this hour if we get more reaction. We will bring in panel, bret baier, anchor of special report, fox news at night, Anchor Shannon and dnc chairman donna
brazile. Shannon, i understand that you just got off the phone with senator Lindsey Graham. Anything to report. The president had turkey wrap, everybody seemed relaxed and happy and this thing comes out, as hes standing there theres a lot of excitement, he calls it a home run for the president. He felt this report could not have gone any better than it did, no collusion, no obstruction, big day of celebrating for the president and he felt like they had a great day anyway and the president relaxed, enjoying golf this morning, once that report came, sounded like a great sense of relieve for the president and those surrounding him, again, Lindsey Graham words, home run, hard for democrats at this point to make any hay out of this, listen, we know as weve all discussed other things they may look toward, impeachment, things going on in Southern District with federal prosecutors, at this Point Collusion narrative thats been going on for 2
years, debunked by Special Counsel and big day of relief for the president. Bret baier, i want to go over to you for overall thoughts before we get good ones from Donna Brazile as well. Bret. Yeah, sure, the bottom line here is the first conclusion of this report that no american, no one tied to the Trump Campaign, no american colluded or conspired with the russians to affect the 2016 election. That is said 3 times in this short letter summer summarizing and starts with the president not exonerated by Special Counsel mueller, right, it says that they did not reach a conclusion on the obstruction of justice, but the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney general did and said theres no
reason to go forward with any crime against the president and they determined that because there was no underlying crime of the conspiracy, they would not move forward. All right, Donna Brazile, first chance to comment on this news that just broke in, your thoughts from your personal perspective and then i will get some from you about what you think democrats ought to do next . Well, thanks so much for having me on, let me just say, i am totally gratified that this Special Counsel was able to conclude his report. I want to say, i guess, i only speak for myself that im gratified that he did the work to interview those americans, to get behind the stories, the gossip, inuendos and tell us and for me im personally relieved that no americans personally got involved in the russian hacking of our elections and the
russians attempted to destroy our democracy and weaken our democracy, i have to personally say that, as you know, i became chair of the Democratic Party because of the hacking and now that that part is known and i am not saying those of us who said for many, many years that the russians were involved and had impact on our ability to conduct the election maybe we can, you know, put that also a victory for democracy, but democracy today is still on trial and while the president can assume victory thats personally in his purview, as our president he needs to understand that this rises above just himself and his party but it calls upon us as americans to look at ourselves and say, okay, the russians were at it, they did not get us but the president of the United States now needs to understand
that our democracy must be protected, if hes able to do that, then the victory his victory, it is our victory because we have to protect our country. I think overall yes and maybe in a few days thats how people might feel. What the democrats have said even this morning Chairman Nadler saying regardless of whats in the Mueller Report, we will continue, we will pursue all of this, we think that there is collusion, we will go forward with impeachment. Do you think that is wise and necessary or would you say that the democrats ought to figure out a way to accept this report and move on . I think the constitution of the United States gives the democrats or republicans the power of oversight and this is about oversight. This is not just about gossip or partisan line that we have to pull, its constitutional responsibility, again, i do believe that the democrats, their hearts in the right place, how do we protect our country
and democracy and how do we move forward and this will require democrats to be careful in their evaluation of the report which we have not seen and so understand that we must protect our country from future hacking. Donna, real quick from me and i i want to get back to bret and shannon. Do you now accept the president as the legitimate president of the United States having won the 2016 election fair and square . I believe that the president and his attacks on not just his opponent, but the way in which hes conducted himself in office as our president , not the republican president , the United States, he has to prove that he is worthy of a job that George Washington held over 230 years ago. I am now i will say this to the president , mr. President , this is the woman you attacked, called me a liar for talking about the Russian Investigation during the campaign when we were
being attacked, im willing to accept the fact that you had nothing to do with it if only you will spend the next 589 days in office doing everything in your office and in your power as the president of the United States to protect us from future hacking once again. Im willing to play, so dont ask me now to celebrate when im still feeling a hurt and the pain of what happened in 2016 and im only speaking for donna. I want to hear from hillary, i want to hear from everyone else involved. Bernie, everything who got burnt and beaten by the crap that we saw. Donna on the point that you acknowledged that no american, trump official was involved, would you acknowledge he won the election . I will look, i played the game, I Dont Go Back and relitigate, i will not relitigate 2016, if i want to to relitigate. I aint relitigating anything but my age, lets relitigate how we protect when we thought about our Country First and if we really believe in that, this is the moment that we all can rise to the occasion and ed let me say this as american, i accept the fact that the president had no finger in it, did he move a hand to ever stop and did he put something in the game to make sure it never happened again, thats how i will judge him. Thats just donna. I cant speak for anybody else. Bret, having heard that do you think the president now, bret, tries to move forward and bring the country together . Listen, ed, i hear what donna is saying but you have to understand that a lot of members of donnas party really hammered this even just days ago saying that theres a mountain of evidence of collusion, theres clear evidence of collusion from adam schiff, i think theres
clearly intent to collude, tom perez, mountain of evidence of collusion, brennan, former cia director says theyll be indictment, possibly the president s children in coming days, thats just days ago on the air and this he was in office as the cia director at the beginning of all of this, so theres a theres a side of it that has to be ironed out post this determination. There are a lot of people that have, you know, a lot of crow to eat after they said what they said in the last couple of days. Two years ago adam schiff said he had evidence, evidence, not allegations. Andy carr, if you will eat crow, eat it fast. Last point. I disagree go ahead, donna. Bret, this is not about crow, steaks, chicken or crawfish, this is really about our country. I mean, this is the moment, if we keep talking about crow, who is going to eat it, i can tell you im talking about doesnt the president feel that he has been hindered in his ability to do his job by an entire effort to undermine his legitimacy and now you have a definitive word from somebody who spent a lot of resources, almost 30 million over 2 years that comes to a conclusion and doesnt that mean that you have to move on and start working on legislation and not investigation . Well, first of all, we have to evaluate, we were told just a few minutes ago what was in the report, we have not seen any of the summaries. I mean, i want to believe when i heard from that young man, mr. Gibson that the russians had no help from americans. I want to believe that because i understand mr. Mueller interviewed 500 people, had 2900 subpoenas, i want to believe that that occurred and i trust the fact because i have never
spent one day on air criticizing the Justice Department, the president has, all im asking is give the American People opportunity to absorb the information. We should all celebrate the fact. I hear you. No american we all agree. Yeah. Lets go beyond that and we can get there. All right, Donna Brazile, bret baier, we had bra shannon brie thank you so much. Right now lets bring former republican congresswoman trey gowdy, former chair of oversight committee, fox news contributor, you were with the president this morning, i would ask your initial thoughts as i guess he didnt have any idea what was going to happen but he said all along there was no collusion. He did and some of us that supported all along said that the bulk report will be about what russia tried to do in the country and secondarily who if anyone did they try to do it
with. One sentence in the little letter that caught my attention was that no one with the Trump Campaign or associated there with coordinated or conspired with russia despite multiple opportunities to do so. So that line struck out to me. And why . Why did that strike well, its one thing to not affirm to do something, it is another thing, it is it is even less evidence of intent to be offered something and reject it, so if you listen to the democrat narrative it was that the Trump Campaign colluded with russia