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Illegitimate exercise and as if the president was their client. forget the congressional job of oversight of the executive. >> i don't think that is fair at all and what we did is make it clear to the american people what the mueller report found and esther mueller confirmed it. he found no collusion between the trump campaign and russia, he stated that multiple times because it is in the report multiple times and when pressed on obstruction he stated because i even asked him you can't make up this terminology that we are going to exonerate somebody or choosing not to exonerate somebody, you h...

Report, the very first line of your report says, as you read this morning, it authorizes the special counsel to provide the attorney general with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the special counsel. that's the very first word of your report, right? >> that's correct. >> here's the problem, director. the special counsel didn't do that. on volume 1 you did. on volume 2 with respect to potential obstruction of justice, the special counsel made neither a prosecution decision or a declination decision. you made no decision. volume 2 of this repor...

Forth. and i think pressing bob mueller with respect to why you did not give the president of the united states any benefit of the doubt at all. the final question i would say, you really wrote this for congress, and you had no authority to do that. you are no authority to do that. you were to write a confidential report to the attorney general of the united states explaining your prosecution decisions and your declination decision. your whole second part goes way beyond anything that you were authorized to do. mr. mueller, some might call that an abuse of power. >> sean: and the horrific 9 1/...

Decades and it's, you know, one historic investigation because it actually does bring into play this memo from doj's secretive and powerful office of legal counsel that says you can't charge a president. so while bill barr can say why can't you make a charging decisi decision, why didn't you make declination decision, mueller can't see past and as he argues shouldn't see past this hard and fast internal doj rule that he wasn't allowed even to think about what bill barr has now said he was supposed to address. >> can i draw you both out on that and this is a jump ball. if you had the a.g. and t...

Will make those based solely on the law and i will not let personal, political or other improper interests influence my decision. >> what are you looking for to make sure that is the case as we go forward? >> i think it's got to be almost the entire mueller report except for the limited exceptions. i think anything short of that will be seen as a smacking of a cover up, and inconsistent with the transparency he promised. there's certainly no regulation. special counsel regulations don't forbid it or doj policy -- i mean this is ferguson time as million. and obviously in ferguson there was a lo...