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Script. >> it's basically now up to you. he was virtually announcing congress, do your job. >> the train whistle is blowing and pelosi has to make a decision. >> he's saying to congress, i can't do your job for you. >> the ball is in your court. >> the ball is essentially in their court. >> it's up to you in the house of representatives to deal with this. the ball is in your court. >> laura: braddock, are you worried after tonight?ou >> the person who had a bad day today was nancy pelosi. they expected -- i think they were salivating something was going to come. >> he said we couldn't charge.

>> if we had confidence of the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. >> melissa: that was special counsel robert mueller breaking his silence in the last hour, saying his office couldn't charge president trump with a crime because of long-standing guidelines at the department of justice. those remarks appearing at odds with what attorney general william barr said a few months ago, you will remember, when he first addressed the release of the special counsel report. here's what h...

Investigation found. >> melissa: that's a great point, we will land on that one. thank you. for more, let's bring in republican congress and mike turner of ohio who sits on the house intelligence and the armed services committees. thank you so much for joining us. what is your take on what happened today? >> thank you for having me. i think what is so important is the question they were asking, what does it mean, the difference between mueller saying he couldn't indict and any restrictions that would have prevented mueller from concluding that there had been crimes committed? is he just pointe...

>> if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. beyond what i have said here today and what is contained in a written work, i do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further. >> jerry nadler meanwhile saying no it is above the law. sounds like impeachment could be in the offing, melissa. we will be watching carefully. sarah sanders coming up a little bit later. more on that, but for now, back to you. >> melissa: kevin, think of that. yes, we expec...

If you've determined you're going to pursue an indictment, that's what you do and we have processes in place so the public finds out who's been charged and what they've been charged with, that sort of thing. it's a much trickier situation as we found out when you're not bringing charges. whether that's because of doj policy or because you don't have the evidence you feel you need to go forward a charge. >> just to talk about the two branchs, not having the evidence to go forward with a charge and a strong case for the fact that in a free society that the tools of law enforcement don't come out...