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Hello again, everyone. Thanks so much for being with me. At any moment now Attorney General william barr is expected to release the main conclusions from the Mueller Report to congress. We are hearing that it is coming today. Barr is at the u. S. Justice department right now with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein reviewing the report. The president , well, he just returned to maralago just moments ago after spending the day at his golf club in west palm beach, florida while he, too, awaits the brief. Cnn has a team of reporters and analysts standing by who have covered this story for near...

Key phrase that the media misses, the special counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice offense" and this is important. "our determination was i made without regard to and is not based on the constitutional considerations that surround the indictment and criminal prosecution of a sitting president." he concluded, "generally speaking to obtain and sustain an obstruction conviction, the government would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person acting with corrupt intent engaged in the obstructive conduct with a sufficien...

Findings that they didn't see a case for obstruction of justice, but then if you kind of go down furth further, it also says that to obtain and sustain an obstruction conviction, the government would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person acting with corrupt intent engaged in obstructive conduct with a fixing nexus of a comprehending proceeding. meaning it's not that they didn't necessarily have all the goods, they couldn't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. >> the president has just been exonerated. can we just take a step back and focus on the fact that this is nearly a two-y...

Was not based on that. in other words, they're saying it's not that we couldn't indict him. we don't think we need to or could or the evidence doesn't establish it. one other paragraph about this. in making this determination we noted that the special counsel recognized that "the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in an underlying crime related to russian election interference." and that while not determinative, the absence of such evidence bears upon the president's intent with respect to obstruction. generally speaking, to obtain and sustain about obstruction convict...

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