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Likelihood the president is removed from office by impeachment before november 2020 is all but nil after this. with that i would like to welcome in my panel "the washington post" white house reporter ashley parker, white house correspondent for pbs news, former chief communications adviser for paul ryan, brendan buck, former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, jeremy bash, and nbc news national security and justice reporter julia ainsley. of course, in birmingham, alabama, we have former u.s. attorney joyce vance. thank you all for being here this evening. joyce vance, i would...

Doesn't match the tone of what bill barr wrote or at least to reasonable folks, then it is only going to polarize the perception of this even further. so that is -- but on the pr front, this is the head start that they have. they're going forward. they're filling a vacuum before we ever get to read the actual report. and so they're going to have spun and spun and spun. they got their supporters worked up. they've got everybody lined up. and, again, nobody has seen the actual evidence that apparently robert mueller has put out there that does at least raise questions of the obstruction question...

Mrs mrs is martha stewart comes to mind famously for that. but there's also weighed against that, is there an underlined crime, can someone have the intent of covering a crime if there is no underlying crime? intent is what leads to obstruction. the other piece we often wonder about is could they indict a sitting president and would that weigh in on william barr's conclusions? william barr made a specific comment that did not weigh in his decision. the fact a 2000 opinion from this justice department said a sitting president could not be indicted, he left out of this and said it didn't come to...

Know there will be a public reckoning of some kind with a remainder of the report but will that look like some of the classified documents. one second. >> i want to tell you america is the greatest place on earth. the greatest place on earth. thank you very much. >> okay. that was the president of the united states returning to the white house after what is no doubt a triumphant day for his campaign based on everything she said so far. julia, i'm sorry, let's go back to the question, is this going to look like a document we get from the senate intelligence committee where you have three senten...

Hold back. see what this is. they felt good after friday with no indictments. so there was a message sent to him that it is bet are for you to wait on this and he took it. >> ashley, do they feel like there's now no danger in the president talking about this? we had been having this ongoing conversation every time he picks up the phone to tweet something, he could be putting himself in legal jeopardy. have those questions been put to rest? >> that's a good question. i don't know the answer. it's two-fold, in general his aides and certainly his lawyers feel the less tweets, the better. that's a...