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They could take those two moments and have those be the moments everybody sees over and over again? >> reporter: well, chuck, i think that question is still to be answered in terms of how the american public digests what happened today, how many people watched these hearings gavel to gavel and how much will watch summaries that include those very exchanges and those headlines are very clear. the president is constantly tweeting and claiming no collusion, no obstruction, total exoneration. robert mueller very clearly refuted that very directly. you put those kind of sound bytes next to each oth...

Compelling testimony. >> well, they're going into august recess, and if they're going to get impeachment hearings started, they've got to do it quickly or you're if full 2020 mode. >> i want to bring in somebody from the other side of the aisle, republican from north dakota, also a member of the house judiciary committee. let me start with basic question here. do you feel as if robert mueller was a compelling and truthful witness today? >> i don't feel like he was overly compelling. i think at some point in time there's going to end up being consequences if you continue to overpromise and unde...

>> i can't get into that area. >> did your investigation determine after careful vetting of rick gates and michael cohen, that you found them to be credible? >> we found the president to be credible? >> you found gates and cohen to be credible in their statements about wikileaks. >> those are areas i'm not going to discuss. >> okay. can you say the president was creddic. >> i can't answer that question. >> director mueller, season the it fair to say the president's written answers were not only inadequate and incomplete, because he didn't answer many of your questions, but where he did, his an...

Ends up walking that back. >> i think there were several examples of that today. and just to be clear the olc's opinion is of course a factor, the one that says you can't indict a sitting president. but it is not the situation that the team decided that donald trump committed crimes but they couldn't say so because of the olc opinion. quite the contrary. what the report says and what mueller made clear a couple of times at the hearing today is that having marshaled the potential obstruction of justice examples, they deliberately said we can't even decide whether these constitute a crime becaus...

Have something to prove? and if so, what? >> it depends on who they're trying to prove it to. i'm not sure that that view reflects kind of the majority of mainstream democratic or center leaning voters. that's always been the challenge for the democratic party and nancy pelosi. how do you give voice to the activist part of the party and to the progressive leaning side of the party without destroying your own chances for victory in a general election or to retain power in the house? the other one thing i'd say is setting the theater aside, there are two levels on which today's hearings are impo...