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Found a crime, but for the existence of the olc opinion. and he made it very clear, several times, that 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 that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> reporter: mueller also making clear that his personal preference is not to testify, but if forced, he'll stick within the bounds of his report. >> we chose those words carefu...

>> if he had my potty mouth or yours. >> that's a potty mouth? >> for mueller. >> he basically said the president and barr have lied to you. let's be clear about what i said in my report. the main thing, of all the things he said today, i got focussed on, i got hung up on one word. the word is when, as opposed to the word if. mueller is careful the way he writes things. when he talks about the obstruction issue. he said the reason why we investigated the efforts to obstruct the investigation, the matters we investigated were important it was paramount to receive truthful information, when a su...

Issues and gone to his motivation for making a public statement. he talked about russian election interference. he talked about that being systematic and broad. the emphasis has been on the obstruction issue. he talked about the olc opinion, the office of legal counsel. it's like the internal lawyer to the executive branch. it's housed in the justice department. he said that opinion says you can't indict a sitting president. mueller said this was a major stumbling block in the investigation. >> under long-standing department policy, a present president cannot be charged with a federal crime wh...

Questions of the individual. the second thing is the timing. this comes at a very interesting period. congress is out this week as you noted the attorney general william barr is out of town traveling in alaska and the president is on his way back i guess soon back in washington from traveling in japan. so to not draw too much of a line under this but it appears that bob mueller really has the stage to himself today to make whatever statement he wishes to make. this also dovetails with the end of his term as a justice department employee. of course, as you know that opens the door to allow him ...

There were on members, no staffers there. so we're learning from members as we have the chance to talk to them. but it includes everything from the tax issue to the emoluments, being able to profit the trump organization while in office talking about oversight. so six specifictelligence to ove tax writing committee to judiciary, all of those different ways that they are pursuing -- democrats are pursuing information, evidence, testimony and the like for a variety of issues that involve the president personally as well as the administration. one of the questions would be have there been financi...