Rage tweeting about the investigation and about the democrats who were exercising their constitutional oversight powers to get the full report that you, the American People, paid for. Moments ago House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff vowed that democrats will not be deterred from exercising their oversight powers. That is certainly the president s attitude, its not the job of congress to do oversight, period, and indeed under the gop congress they did no oversight, but its our responsibility to root out fraud, corruption, waste, abuse, whether it rises to the level of criminality or not. Joining me now is medi has sam, natasha bertron, dana which willbank and naveed jamali. Thank you all for being here. Medi, lets start with jay sekulow, he was on abc this morning and was asked if hes worried that the report itself might be more damaging than the barr memo indicates. Take a listen. In general barrs letter he said im only going to discuss the principal conclusions and what were those principal collusion conclusions . No obstruction, no collusion. They probably had legitimate disagreements inside the department of justice on how things should move forward one way or the other and the fact is that obstruction by tweet which was one of the theories being advocated here, i never took as a basis for obstruction, and, by the way, neither did the special counsel evidently because their report says they are not making that conclusion and they said difficult questions of law, in fact, and when you have difficult questions of law in fact do you know what you dont do . You dont recommend prosecution. Should that be enough for the American People . Of course not. It shouldnt be enough for the American People. Its just a lie when he says the report says that. The whole point as you mentioned and i was on your show a couple weeks ago when we were discussing all this, we still havent seen the report, congress hasnt seen the report, the president of the United States says he hasnt seen the report that apparently is a total and complete exoneration. Isnt it weird that for two weeks weve been told this report exonerates the president , its time to move on, yet you cant see the report. That is a weird, weird position for any politician to take. If ive been accused for years in a false witchhunt hoax, you know, fake dossier investigation for two years and then i get a report that says im cleared, the thing im going to want to do most is release that report. The fact that i dont want to release that report fits in with Everything Else weve seen over the last few years is that they lie and lie and cover up and never explain why theyre lying and covering up if theres nothing to cover up or lie about. The challenge is that the democrats who are demanding to see this report are already quite dubious about whether or not the barr memo corresponds precisely with whats in the Mueller Report. Yesterday i spoke with jim clyburn, the House Majority whip and he expressed quite a bit of skepticism about whether the Mueller Report matching what william barr puts out. Do you suspect that hes withholding damaging information thats in the Mueller Report in order to protect donald trump . Thats my suspicion. In your reporting how far are the democrats prepared to go to ensure that the American People ultimately get to see the full report, all of what was concluded by Robert Muellers team . Very far, joy. I think that this is a fight that they are willing to take right to the end, they want the grand jury material, they want the classified information, they want everything and thats so that they can ultimately put something out to the American Public, whether it is a redacted version of the Mueller Report which will have to be redacted in some ways because of classified information, of course, or is a summary prepared by congress that can be used for public consumption. They want these findings and ultimately the meat of thas, bu i think, you know, if were to believe the Washington Post, the new york times, nbc news, all these reports that have been put out in the last week about the displeasure thats being felt by muellers team over how barr characterized this report then i think it would be fair to call this a cover up. I mean, the fact that muellers team has been silent for two years and now theyre speaking to associates who are then speaking to reporters about how they believe that barr really mischaracterized the fundamental findings of their twoyear investigation, then that is something that should really concern everyone because barr was remember, he was put in this position after he wrote a lengthy memo outlining his belief that the president did not obstruct justice, that the obstruction of justice probe was fatally miss conceived, he interviewed to be the president s personal attorney in the russian investigation. This is someone who is deeply conflicted and he is not alone. Rod rosenstein the Deputy Attorney general is very c conflicted as well and he had a role to play in also exxon rating the president of obstruction. He helped write the underlying memo that was used by donald trump to fire jim comey making him a witness in the obstruction probe. You have so many conflicts of interest here that fundamentally, you know, really compromise their ability to put something out into the public that the American People can actually hold on to and believe in. And dana, typically with this administration you dont really have to guess what they think because donald trump just tells you what they think. He just emotes whatever it is that hes concerned about. If he was confident in the Mueller Report then why is he lashing out . If hes confident that he was exonerated about it why do we have this reporting. Trump lashes out at Mueller Report as release of report approaching. As William Barrs selfimposed deadly to submit a kooep of Mueller Report to capitol hill approaches, trumps could have dense in his exoneration of him waned. He wouldnt be bringing this up still if everything was hunkydory. Meanwhile, other reporting, new york times, congress waits as bill barr blacks out part of the Mueller Report, quote, since mr. Mueller submitted a nearly 400page report on his investigation two weeks ago mr. Barr, his aids and other Law Enforcement officials have been reviewing it to determine what portion to provide to lawmakers and the public and what to black out. So the man who went in saying he didnt believe the Mueller Report that the Mueller Investigation was legit is busy blacking things out while the president is busy railing and clearly not thinking the report exonerates him. Right. You can clearly see it change in the trajectory of the trump tweeting on this to claiming exoneration now just moments ago going back to the 13 angry democrats, theyre leaking information. So its clearly under his skin, i was amused by the jay skek low clip, instead of principals conclusions he says principal collusions, theres something freudian going on in his mind as well. I think what happened here was clearly there was an effort to get out in front of this and barr clearly assisted in this with this sort of an a dine summary here. It may not have been inaccurate, it just wasnt the whole story. Often when you have the first bite at Something Like this, you can change the impression in the publics mind and fix it in place, but guess what, that didnt happen here because people already had a fixed impression of the way donald trump and his administration behaves so they are not inclined to believe that he was totally exonerated in the first place, and now they are in a position where this is going to come out, its unclear how and whether its in dribs and drabs. We have give barr the benefit of the doubt and he gets another week, but if it comes back with all kinds of blacked out pages and all this grand jury and other information missing, then its just going to be a long and protracted fight until it is produced. And i think the val length with a lot of people with the idea of giving william barr the benefit of the doubt is the fact that he did do this addition to get the job in which he was pretty clear that he didnt really believe in the investigation to begin with or that a president could quit obstruction of justice at all and he concludes price sighsly that. I think adam schiff has been clear and precise in the way he has discussed this investigation. Here he is on cnn this morning. I dont regret calling out this president for what i consider deeply unethical and improper conduct. Not a bit. I think the moment that we start to think that we should back away from exposing this kind of malfeasance and corruption is a dangerous point. You briefed members of congress, naveed, in the past on things of that nature and things precisely related to this. Is the only way that democrats politico is asking does congress have to impeach donald trump to find out what actually happened . If they cant get the information by getting the Mueller Report, is it an impeachment proceeding left to them as the only way that the public can get an accounting . Because the public still needs an accounting here. Gosh, i hope not. Thats not the way this is supposed to work. I was lucky enough to talk to adam schiff, we had a protected conversation about what i consider the threat of russia. If i were to brief donald trump today i would break it down, mr. President , you should be as scared of the russians as wind mills. This is a pervasive ongoing threat. We talk about collusion, corruption, the reality is the russians had an intent independent of donald trump. I think its important that americans writ large understand what the russian intention was. What did they do . What assets did they use . Were they successful . If they were successful why were they successful . Look, even though i might be a democrat, i believe very strongly that the fbi had a duty to protect donald trump as a candidate, the republican candidate, from contact by russians, by agents from foreign intelligence services. Were they able to do that . If they werent, why not . These are all questions that independent of collusion, independent of all these charges of conspiracy, of criminality, the other part of this is do our institutions counterintelligence work and if they dont, why not . This is something most americans dont see, but they have to have faith in the institutions that were able to do this and thats why the report has to come out. The American Public dont just have a duty to understand what happened with the president but they also have a duty to understand what happened with counterintelligence. Is the National Security of this country safe . Do our institutions of democracy are they resilient enough to stand the attack of sort of what we saw in 2016 and can we protect them Going Forward . Do you think that thats whats in the Mueller Report, those answers, quickly . I think thats a large part of it. Answering those questions does not necessarily mean that donald trump is guilty of a cripple crime. It means that the russians were intent on making contact with him, perhaps even recruiting him. These do not rise to criminality but it is something im sure bob mueller looked at. I want to know the answers to those questions. Natasha, dana, naveed, thank you all very much. Coming up, the president of the United States attacks a democratic member of congress one day after a man was arrested and charged with trying to kill her. More on that next. L her. More on that next. Yes. 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I want to congratulate jared and Jason Greenblatt and David Friedman and all of the people they work with. And a big thing for me and some of you wont like this maybe, but i would love to see peace in the middle east. I would love to see peace in the middle east. If those three cant do it you will never have it done. With me as president , with them doing the deal, you will never have it done. So lets see if we can do t who knows. Who knows. For more than two years weve been hearing that Jared Kushner is going to come up with a plan for peace in the middle east and now, who knows. As donald trump was making those comments before the Republican Jewish Coalition in las vegas yesterday israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu was making his final pitch to voters ahead of elections this tuesday saying that he will begin annexing the west bank if he wins. Lets bring back medi hassan and bill neely. Bill, how is that idea playing, the idea of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu saying if hes reelected he will begin annexing the west bank . Reporter well, Benjamin Netanyahu often pulls out a surprise just 48 hours before voters go to the polls and hes done it again with this. Needless to say its not gone down well among the palestinians. What he was suggesting was not annexing the whole of the west bank, which would be an absolutely extraordinary move, but suggesting that the jewish settlements in a strip of the west bank representing about a tenth of the west bank, about 400,000 jewish settlers that that strip would be annexed or might be annexed if he is reelected as israels Prime Minister. I mean, it is seen a little bit as netanyahu pressing the panic button because he is in a neck and neck very close race with a man he used to give orders to, benny gantz the former israeli chief of staff who is heading this new blue and white party and really giving netanyahu a run for his money. So netanyahu, again, at the last minute pulls out Something Like this, but, as i said, among the palestinians its not gone down well and the Palestinian Foreign minister basically saying if this should happen be prepared for trouble. Bill, just to stay with you for one moment. Pete buttigieg the candidate for president has been quite critical of netanyahu, a tweet yesterday this provocation is harmless to israel, palestinian and american interests. This calls for a president willing to counsel our ally against abandoning a twostate solution. Theres that information that netanyahu wants to begin annexation, but youve also had this recognition by donald trump of the Golan Heights of being part of the israel proper. I wonder if there is a sense among the israeli public that a twostate solution is dead because donald trump says one is coming. Reporter yeah, i mean, the twostate solution which, of course, a decade ago was on everybodys lips is very much on the back burner. Indeed i was speaking to deputy minister in netanyahus office this morning who basically said that the twostate solution is dead. Obviously from the palestinian point of view the danger of talking about annexing even part of the west bank is that it extinguishes their hope of national statehood. I mean, the west bank has always been absolutely core to that and if you take away the jewish settlements, you add the roads, you an ex the area around it, you know, you are left with a disconnected palestinian state. Its disconnected already because gaza and the west bank are two very different entities and theyre not linked. So the real danger is and, you know, here for years and years theyve been speaking about the danger of a third palestinian inter fada or uprising. The danger is that if you were to an ex part of the west bank, even a part of the west bank that it has been assumed in washington and in jerusalem might be part of israel in any negotiated settlement, if you do that, the danger is that you are sparking a fire and that indeed is what one National Security analyst said to me yesterday. He said, you know, war is just a short step away and this is exactly the kind of thing that could start if not a war, certainly a conflict. Let me bring you in here, am. Edi, i want to bring you a part of the interview that Christiane Amanpour did with israels ambassador to the United Nations about whether or not this mystical peace plan that donald trump keeps saying to put forwa coming. Take a listen. When do you think this peace plan will be delivered . You must have been talking to mr. Kushner and the administration. We know that the plan is completed, that they worked a lot on this plan, intensive visits