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Backfired because first of all, there's nothing there. secondly, mr. mueller himself seemed very disoriented, couldn't answer certain questions. so i don't think that worked in their favor. >> i was surprised by that myself, congresswoman. we shall see. thank you for taking the time. i know you had a crazy day yourself. >> thank you. >> neil: let's go to alayna treene on this. we're waiting for the tape to rush to us from the president. he's just wrapped up what seemed to be a long series of questions with reporters on the south lawn before heading out to west virginia for this campaign event....

Can guarantee you that. beyond this audience i'm not sure. i think the problem is when you read the report, i have, you come away, at least i did, somewhat dissatisfied, i was reading volume 2 and i wanted robert mueller to say did trump commit obstruction of justice or did he not? mueller never says either way. he presents the scenarios and he says, well, in these scenarios one might have a legal reading which suggests that, yes, obstruction of justice was committed. if that's all -- if that's all mueller says during the hearing next week, i'm not so sure how successful the democrats are goin...

Kimberly, that he answers a question about whether he believes congress should launch an inquiry to find out the answer to this question that he says he couldn't answer. >> that's essentially in the report. he said if he could have said definitively that the president did not commit a crime he would have said so and he said it was within the purview of congress and that he was prohibited by doj regulation from going further than that. it depends on how the questions are asked and how he delivers those responses. we also know that robert mueller is a very thoughtful guy who doesn't say things h...

Around him that leads people to do these things. it could be the connective tissue. and his next question was the seminal question about these hearings. he asked cohen what is the truth that president trump is afraid of. and there was this long, pregnant pause in the room and cohen couldn't answer it. think of all the people who have thread guilty of lying to congress, all in the service of covering up something, what. that was the question he couldn't answer. it was such a big moment about how do we tie all these investigations to thgether. what is everyone lying to cover up? and cohen couldn...

The 41-second google map search was planted. the prosecution had no smoking gun. so you're saying he didn't even search for that map? >> that's right. >> somebody else put it on his computer? >> yes. >> an fbi agent testified he saw no evidence of tampering, but the defense said it had experts who did. two of them. both of whom wrote reports. but trials have referees. and in this case, the judge ruled that neither one of those defense experts could testify about tampering. one, said the judge, wasn't sufficiently qualified. the other was brought in too late in the trial. but even if they had t...