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Barr, the report identified no actions that, in our judgment, constitute object struckive conduct. democrats have long felt the attorney general has been protecting president trump and has tried to water down the mueller report. i asked sarah sanders a little while ago on the north lawn, as she took about a dozen questions from reporters, why the american public should feel confident with a political appointee making the final call on obstruction. listen. >> we're not asking you to. robert mueller did 400 pages and laid it all out. the attorney general made his decision based on mueller's info...

Before mueller wrote a single syllable in his report. we'll be in this state of chaos the next 14 months. i don't think there's a prosecutable case for obstruction. i don't know everything. but what i have seen, firing jim comey is not obstruction. if the president has a right to waive his right to remain silent, does he also have the right to waive his right to not be indicted while president? i'd take my chances with 12 reasonable minded fellow citizens before i would house democrats. >> dana: take a listen to chairman jerry nadler of the house judiciary committee earlier, just in this hour....

Crime. it becomes very academic when you have public tweets being called a potential basis for obstruction and you don't have an under lying crime. that's one thing flagged in the roar as to why it would be very difficult to contemplate a federal criminal prosecution for obstruction. that goes to day light here that you and bret have been talking about, which is mueller today made it sound like the olc opinion basically shut down the inquiry. that there was never going to be an obstruction case because they had no authority under that olc opinion. but the report does read differently and barr'...

Could not exonerate president trump on obstruction. let's bring in trey gowdy. i wanted to talk a couple angles with you. one, it's very interesting in a special counsel's report to have insufficient evidence versus no evidence, right? but if you don't have a case, as prosecutors, sometimes you have to let it go. >> yeah. i mean, there are a couple evidentiary thresholds. it takes probable cause to indict someone or arrest them but it takes beyond a reasonable doubt to get a conviction. most prosecutors if you don't have a likelihood of a successful outcome, you're not going to try the case. y...

Mueller. >> dana: why do you think mueller decided to speak today? this is the first time you've heard him speak in two years. i understand the office is wrapping up. as we just established, he didn't say anything that wasn't already in the report. do you think he was trying to send a signal to congress? >> i mean clearly there was a signal in there saying constitution has a remedy for this. he didn't say the word impeachment but said, congress, it's your job. if i speculate, that's just what this is. there's probably internal strife between the 17 prosecutors that are working for him on how t...