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To either prosecute or not prosecute. >> generally, that's the case. although, most cases are not done in the context of the president. >> in this case, you made a decision not to prosecute, correct? >> no, we made a decision not to decide whether to prosecute or not. >> so essentially what your report did was everything that a.g. reno warned against. >> i can't agree with that characterization. >> well, what you did is you compiled a nearly 450 pages of the very worst information you gathered against the target of your investigation, who happens to be the president of the united states. and y...

Anything that isn't in his -- helping the american people understand what are the basic conclusions out report, which is that director mueller d especially counsel mueller cannot exonerate the president. based on his investigation, he cannot exonerate him. and i would ask him to name each of the four counts of obstruction of justice. >> now, you are -- came out in favor of impeachment after careful deliberation about it. you're in one of the districts where reportedly pelosi worries about members like you who are representing previously republican districts and that

Raised some issues. and that letter speaks for itself. >> but then i don't see how you could -- that could be since a.g. barr's letter detailed the principle conclusions of your report. you have said before that there wasn't anything inaccurate. in fact, you had this joint statement. but let me go on to another question. mr. mueller, rather than purely relying on the evidence provided by witnesses and documents, i think you relied a lot on media. i'd like to know how many times you cited "the washington post" in your report. >> how many times i what? >> cited "the washington post" in your repo...

Andrew weissman, he's one of the more talented attorneys we have on board. >> well, i'll take that -- >> over a period of time, he's run a number of units -- >> i have very limited time. in august 2015, a very senior doj official called fbi deputy director andrew mccabe expressing concern that fbi agents were still openly pursuing the clinton foundation probe. the doj official was apparently very pissed off, quote/unquote. mccabe questioned this official, asking, are you telling me i need to shut down a badly predicate the investigation, to which the official replied, of course not. this seems...

>> that's one of the many things you wouldn't talk about today. but i think we can all draw our own conclusions. i thank you for your service to the country and i'm glad this will come to an end soon and we can get back to the important business of this committee with the broad jurisdiction of so many important issues in the country. with that, i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. our intent was to conclude this hearing around 11:45. all the republican members have now asked their questions. we have a few remaining democratic members. they will be limiting their questions so at director mue...