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That is not the correct way to say it. as we say in the report and as i said at the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime. >> which is consistent with language from his report but still leaves open the question what would mueller have done if not for the olc opinion. i spoke with congressman lieu earlier tonight. congressman, your exchange with mueller produced clearly one of the more surprising responses from him of the day. were you surprised by his first answer this morning and then by his walk back later in the day? >> i was not surprised b...

Robert redford. we expected it to be robert mueller. i think they expected robert mueller to be much more engaged. >> this is not the robert mueller that testified. >> that's right. he seemed at times he was very engaged and had a real command of the facts with this sort of yes and no question that was probably the most effective parts but they were able to trip him up with facts in the report that he didn't have a full command on. i think i don't know that democrats expected that. i think they expected, you know, sort of moments that could be replayed in a sound byte and he clearly didn't wan...

Said he believes when mueller gave that answer in the affirmative to ted lieu's question about the report being not for the olc report, he would have indicted the president, ted lieu thinks mueller was giving an honest answer and the walk back was not really what he kind of -- that he basically tipped his inner thinking. >> i think that's likely accurate especially layered on some of the other answers he was giving this morning. one of the ones that stood out to me is the way he corrected at one point it's not that he declined to prosecute but declined to make a decision about whether to prose...

Feeling triumph and i expect we'll see more of that in the coming days. look, his folks are feeling very good. >> understandably. >> yeah, this was not -- democrats didn't do a great job of setting expectations going into this. mueller appeared certainly throughout the morning halting in his answers unfamiliar with what was in the report about election interference and the institutions of democracy and there he was willing to stray away from the report. when it came to the president's conduct specifically and that was the first several hours of the day, mueller was much less willing to engage ...