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Due respect to bob mueller, when he was appointed, he knew the office of legal counsel opinions were there. he knew that going in and he still took the job. the code of federal regulations say he shall decide. it didn't say he may. so i think it was his obligation to decide, even though he couldn't indict the president, he could have said i can't indict him, but i think he committed a crime. or i can't indict him and i think he didn't commit a crime. not to punt on that. >> there are a lot of people who share that view, it was up to him, he should have decided, but i think now we're in a worse...

>> i want to bring in neal katyal and legal an. it's interesting that the interpretation, robert mueller spoke with a lot. restraint and finally parsed and. ly to the script. what he had written. what. doing. unmistakable. a rare moment. consensus. understood what robert mueller did. >> exactly. it's so clear that the two things he chose to pluck out. his hundreds. pages. report were number one, i couldn't indict the president so don't say you are cleared because i. couldn't do it under doj policy. number two, i could clear the president if the facts showed, but the facts didn't show. those tw...

That the evidence was of obstruction if you couldn't indict and the president couldn't defend himself in court. the whole of the report and that public statement by mueller was an invitation to the democrats in congress to proceed with impeachment. that's a much bigger cloud than the suggestion of obstruction. >> bill: here is one more sound bite from cbs on the shredding of institutions in washington, d.c. >> one of the iron east today say it's president trump shredding our institutions. from my perspective the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everyt...

His testimony, that issue came up and that bob mueller said that this was not the appropriate case on which -- >> neil: could he have used different words? could he have said i can't indict a sitting president whatever but i can find this behavior -- he seems guilty -- >> look, he was mindful of exactly what got james comey into trouble. you're not going to charge somebody. on the way out the door, you're going to say the conduct was careless. >> neil: that can be worse. >> exactly. with regard to the mueller report, i never criticized anything about it except that one sentence. i don't think ...

About his reasons for not going forward with an indictment. the other possibility is that barr is misleading the country and there's a lot to support that hypothesis because barr has misled the country repeatedly about mueller's report. at each stage in the process wh when barr had the opportunity to speak publicly about a subject the country doesn't know about, he's been refuted by facts that came out later. i think this is another example. >> it's very interesting. sus susan, mueller made clieear he couldn't consider criminal charges. he couldn't consider a sealed indictment. how much did th...