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Will do so. not even the president of the united states is above the law. pete, have we heard anything from the justice department in response to what we just heard from its special counsel, robert mueller? >> reporter: no. didn't expect to. there's no -- there's nothing to respond to from the justice department's perspective. he's basically saying i'm done. i have nothing more to say. a couple of points i think need emphasizing based on what i have been hearing in the past half hour, number one it's clear mueller does not want to testify before congress, he made that quite clear. the report i...

To be outside the bounds of and the parameters of the special counsel rules and regulations that were put in place by the deputy attorney general when he appointed robert mueller two years ago. >> we should note, and again, if you're just joining us now, special counsel robert mueller will give his first public comments since the start of this investigation and of course, its completion, just a number of weeks ago. this is what the advisory from the justice department says. it says that he will make a statement on the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. h...

Exonerated -- the report did not exonerate the president. there's a great question as to then what that do something ought to be and there are a range of options before the congress that are not simply impeachment or doing nothing. there's such a thing as censure which is what democrats were recommending against president clinton 21 years ago during the saga of his own impeachment. this is a judgment that spoke legal, as well as political, that only the congress itself can determine. if i were offering the democrats in congress advice to the extent they take it, i'd say it's a good bet because...

Core of the government's effort to strike at the truth and hold wrong doers accountable. let me say a word about the report. the report has two parts, addressing the two main issues we were asked to investigate. the first volume details numerous efforts emanating from russia to influence the election. this volume includes a discussion of the trump campaign's response to this activity, as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. and in a second volume, the report describes the results and analysis of our obstruction of justice investigation inv...

Potentially -- it would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge. so that was justice department policy. those were the principles under which we operated and from them we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime. that is the office's -- that is the office's final position, and we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the president. we conducted an independent criminal investigation and reported the results to the attorney ...