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To what you heard from the senator there. i'm told you have some thoughts about obstruction of justice and rod rosenstein's role in it. >> i wanted to talk to the criticism of the senator whitehouse and making the question, how could william barr have decided in 48 hours president trump didn't have the intent to obstruct justice when mueller was looking at it for two years and couldn't decide. part of the answer is rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general also participated in that decision, barr makes clear. and rod rosenstein, in fairness, was living with this from the beginning, grappling...

Campaign managers, deputy campaign manager, his lawyer, papadopoulos, stone, all these people were having contact. the question for me remains was he compromised? why does he say he believes putin over the against community and leaving nato that puts our national security at jeopardy. why won't he release his tax returns and why were they so hell bent getting the trump tower in moscow. i think the house needs to move forward to answer these questions. >> is he compromised? the line in the report you're referring to, william barr writes quote the special counsel did not find the trump campaign ...

First. i spent over a dozen years of my life at the justice department, worked under bush 1 and republican and democratic administrations and investigated and prosecuted a number of cases in involving allegations of corruption and other wrongdoing of public officials. when we close a case, sometimes we close cases and close a case at times because we couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt the allegations we put forth. there are so many unanswered questions, one thing clearly answered from this report is russians attempted to interfere with our election. >> i'm not sure that that question -- ...

Wasn't just, we don't have enough evidence to file a conspiracy charge, we don't have evidence of coordination with the russians. that's a big deal because for two years we have been pointing at things in that direction. robert mueller took a look with the 2800 subpoenas and 500 search warrants, this wasn't the mueller report, the barr summary of the mueller report, we don't know how long it is. short of a criminal conspiracy, what about trump's conduct and russia contacts and the lying? what explains all that. was the trump campaign manipulated by a sophisticated c covert operation? were they...

>> he is typically, true, in the complete vindication, he looks forward to reviewing the additional information. how do you see this playing out on the hill? >> there's a couple things. we as americans should be happy that the special counsel said there was no collusion. that is a good thing for our democracy and our public. if it was the other thing, we would be sitting here talking about how a foreign power tried to influence and colluded with an actual nominee for a major political party to win an election. those are really scary things we are talking about. we as americans should be very g...