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If Donald Trump hoped to understand what he would face upon moving into the White House in 2017, he would have done well to study what happened to Richard Nixon nearly fifty years prior.
Did. so, yes, i think both the contents of the report, the decisions and judgments he made would all be areas that mr. mueller could be questioned about and useful and important to the american people. >> congressman, appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> i want to continue this conversation. for you, what are the biggest questions still unanswered? >> well, the one big question is on the issue of obstruction. so we seem to think that across the investigation there was an investigation into whether or not the president obstructed justice. that is something if the special counsel has written...
So i have never thought that the special counsel's report that he provides to the attorney general is going to be a full report that explains everything related to the overall investigation. instead, what i thought it would likely be is more of a prosecutive memo and a declination memo. it waialae out, here's all the things we the office of the special counsel investigated. here's the crimes, the potential crimes we identified. here's all the elements, here's the facts that line up with those. here's the cases we took forward. and then potentially here's certain cases that we determined we cou...
Information, every part of it, not just your report or anything like that, but everything, because it's our constitutional duty to understand what happened. and if mueller -- excuse me, if barr files something that is a small report or a brief report and redacts all the information that jeff is talking about, i think congress will be, you know, have to ask for everything and boy, that could be pretty damaging to the president. >> carrie, it's also possible that barr doesn't provide congress with a full report, can the house just ask mueller to testify or subpoena the report from the department...
>> it could be a memo -- that's part of why the nominee today was reluctant to commit to what he would then provide. because he doesn't know if that's going to look like a prosecutive memo that recommends here's the charges we brought, here's the charges we couldn't bring. and so he's not going to do what jim comey was accused of doing, which was providing derogatory information about someone who was not worthy of being prosecuted. >> and barr raised that today. because it was an outrage for comey not charging hillary clinton but then trashing her. and to his credit barr said that was bad. the...