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Stating that he did not clear president trump of obstruction of justice. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. >> reporter: mueller explained that charging the president with a crime wasn't an option for him. justice department policy states a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while in office. instead, mueller appeared to point the obstruction issue to congress, ramping up pressure on capitol hill for impeachment. he also hamme...

Fuel to democrats that might want to go down the road for impeachment. that's why the president came out swinging so hard as he was on his way out the door of the white house, saying there was no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and insisting that mueller could not produce a fair report on the obstruction issue because of what the president said several conflicts of interest. listen here. >> he wanted the fbi job and he didn't get it. the next day he was picked as special counsel. so you tell somebody, i'm sorry. you can't have the job. after you say that, he's going...

Skm commit a crime, we would have said so. >> quite a contrast. there is now a focus on the doj guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted and whether that guided mueller's decision to punt on obstruction. more now from cnn's sara murray in washington. >> reporter: good morning, dave and michelle. after two years of silence on his investigation, special counsel robert mueller appeared before the cameras and chose his words carefully, clearly stating that he did not clear president trump of obstruction of justice. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit...

Was satisfy >> rudy giuliani fought this for a year. the president was presented questions on the piece of paper. that was the answer by bill barr. i see bill bennett back up here again. do you have something to add? >> no, again, i just think there is criticism of bob mueller that he punted on the obstruction issue. i would be surprised if he addressed that but he might. again, if this is a guy who is interested in closure and ending this issue and getting out of the camera lights and not going to testify, he may want to say something to try to put an end to all this. otherwise this speculati...

About the olc opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the olc opinion and he made it very clear, several time, that was not his position. >> reporter: today mueller appeared to point the obstruction issue to congress. ramping up the pressure on capitol hill for impeachment. >> the opinion says the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doing. >> reporter: still mueller made clear he did not want to be part of that process by testifying before c...