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You going to do about it? >> well, when i heard the news this morning, i was stunned. i thought what is this authority to do this? and when i learned it was a 40-year-old bill, i thought the president's idea of an emergency is something he wants to do without the legal authority, just as he did with the wall and now the courts have stopped him. i think this is very questionable legally. it's not -- he doesn't have a lot of respect for the democratic system of government and the rule of law here and i'm glad to hear that senator grassley is also calling him on this. >> i want to talk to you abo...

I don't want to be unfair to the president because he won't have his day in court. but i can't say he didn't do anything wrong. i can't exonerate him. i thought he bent over backward to be fair. >> william barr said specifically mueller could have reached a conclusion and not violated dod policy, quote, to make charges or indict a sitting president. if he had the evidence to support it, he would have read it in the report. it wasn't there. >> he does. he has five different counts of obstruction that have significant -- >> nothing against the president. there is no finding or conclusion that th...

President. there is no finding or conclusion that the president obstructed justice. >> he said he couldn't and he left to congress. now we'll see what they do with it. >> additionally as william barr said the doj, the investigations they do, do not serve as an adjunct to congress. they just want a different outcome so now they're going to continue to do this. >> who is they? >> the democrats and the cast of characters running trying to unseat president trump. this is what they're raising money on, impeachment, impeachment. >> so are you. >> i'm not raising money on it. >> the campaign put some...

Indict a president while he's in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity, but he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained, and i'm not going to, you know, argue about those reasons, but when he didn't make a decision, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and i felt it was necessary for us as the heads of the department to reach that decision. >> well, i mean, he seemed to suggest yesterday that there was another venue for this, and that was congress. >> well, i'm not sure what he was suggesting, but, you know, the department of just...

>> laura: it was bill barr's appearance that many were waiting for. while mueller prays the attorney general as acting in good faith in the process, he had language that raised the specter of disagreement between obstruction of justice. barr said mueller shirked his responsibility, which the ag repeated today. >> he could have reached a conclusion? >> he could've reached a conclusion to indict a president of wrong doing in office. he could've reached a decision whether it was criminal activity. >> do you see the suggestion that there is another venue in this, that was congress? >> i'm not sure...