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They were going through the questioning of the president, what questions they can ask of the president. the lawyers for the president worked very hard to keep any questions out about the obstruction. >> absolutely. >> now we understand why. they were legitimately concerned about the obstruction issue. they knew on the collusion issue, they felt a little stronger about it. it seems even reading this report, this is where the special counsel's office, that's the position they took as well. >> and it may be the reason. that may be the reason it says we can't exonerate him, because they didn't tal...

Attorney general, even the memo he used to apply for the job with the president, prejudged the obstruction issue. that called into question the step that's barr took today. >> julia ainsley, to joyce's point, what do we know about how any of those decisions were made in the justice department? do we know anything along those lines? >> well, we have some bread crumbs that are just laid out in this letter here, kasie. what the attorney general is saying is because of report from mueller didn't weigh one side or the other about charging obstruction, he believes that and this leave it's to the att...

Documents. >> on the obstruction of justice piece, robert mueller said there's evidence on both sides of that. william barr, the attorney general and his deputy who made that conclusion not to prosecute the president for obstruction of justice. do you think the attorney general handled that appropriately? >> i think the main point is that the report from director mueller indicates that he did not exonerate the president, nor did he exonerate him from the issue of -- and in particular of obstruction of justice. what the report says i believe is that he submit the those issues, and those documen...

Republicans requested them. i think there's precedent for the underlying information, evidence, testimony, files to go right to the hill and that will be a basis for further investigation. >> very good case about precedent that was set. joyce, can you weigh in on the decision not to subpoena the president and the point jeremy was making of the history of this? were you surprised they ultimately came to the conclusion not to subpoena the president? >> you know, i think jeremy's absolutely right. it was a surprising decision in many regards, unless the president was himself a target of some inve...

Be sealed indictments coming forward, but i hope that my colleagues are actively working these issues still. >> you brought up active in 16, you brought up starting in essentially january of 17, pretty much every single month the president tried to stop this investigation. every single month. ask k you imagine him not dealing with the obstruction issue in this report? whether it was trying to get him to drop the case against flynn, fist every month, and then trying to rattle, trying to get unrescuesed. it has to be haunting the president right now, can you imagine him not dressing the on instr...