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>> all right, mayor, i appreciate your time. sfr denver. and let's to patrick healy political editor at the "new york times." i want to start with the big picture here. you have this social media summit, right, that is -- was extremists. you have the immigration raids which obviously if you're really raiding and targeting you wouldn't announce. the a an executive order to collect data. all coming days before mueller's big testimony. and we certainly don't know everything he is going to say but you he no the bottom line he couldn't exonerate the president. coincidence this is happening now. >> ...

A person wrote a consequential report saying on the record -- i couldn't exonerate the president of the united states of committing a crime. that is an incredibly powerful moment to have in a congressional hearing. and so i think it is all about scoring political points. but for the democrats, it's getting that testimony on the record. and disagree with my friend julia ainslie, who is always right about everything. i have always thought from the beginning we would always get robert mueller's testimony. because he was always going to be subpoenaed and he would never say no. i thought this was i...

Subpoenas, law enforcement agents, lawyers, whatever they needed. and the investigation clearly showed not a single american kohl you'ded with russia to affect the 2016 election. the american people want us to move on. the democrats are insistent upon impeachment. i'm standing will making sure that they are held accountable for these axe actions that are not warranted. >> to his point on obstruction. >> the president was duly elected by the american people. >> absolutely true. but to his point on the obstruction and the ten thing lid laid out in the mueller report and the mueller saying he cou...

Even any kind of characterization of guilt because he can't defend himself. >> i couldn't disagree more. i think that what bob mueller did in that statement to be standing at a podium with the department of justice logo in the back talk about i couldn't exonerate the president. when did it become the job of any prosecutor to exonerate someone? people have the presumption of innocence, prosecutors speak to their filings. he had the chance to call it. maybe the government wouldn't prosecute because of the olc guidelines but he had the chance to call it. it seems to me it is so dishonest to say i...

I think with good reason to publicize it. we had an inquiry were justice department rules and constitutional interpretation left an actual judgment of guilt off the table. all that was left to say is we couldn't exonerate. if you look carefully including at the reported is pretty clear the conduct mueller has found is obstruction any day of the week, any court in the land, any other person except the president. finally, this attack on mueller's integrity, fantasyland, nobody knows mueller credits the notion that he is somehow a partisan. >> a lot of republicans don't like donald trump. its exo...