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Redactions. lawmakers can call hearings. they can subpoena mueller, or members of his team, and question them in ways that would get more information out or continue the investigation in the legislative branch. you're seeing some of that now. there is another report by the way that could give us insight into the inner workings of mueller's investigation. there is a reporting requirement in the justice department regulations that requires the attorney general as i said, william barr, to tell congress any time mueller's supervisors told him no. if they determine such a move was so inappropriate ...

So the country had been through an impeachment process. the president resigned. so whatd do we want the special prosecutor, whatever we call them, independent counsel, speciall counsel, what do we wat that person to do. well, we want that person not justha to make prosecutorial decisions, we want the person to write a report, and we want the person to send that report to the house of representatives. it's one of the reasons, mark, that justice antonin scalia in hisma magnificent dissent in the case that upheld the unconstitutionality said -- he these great terms -- acrid he with the smell of i...

United states, bill barr, is going to have to make a judgment, what am i as attorney general going to report up to congress. mark: so it's really a completely different reporting requirement. >> completely. mark: and yet people talk about this as the impeachment report. is it because of things that nancy pelosi and jerrold nadler have said, that we want to see this report before we make decisions about impeachment, which they know they don't even have a right to see this report. >> i think there's a failure to understand, to drill into the regulations under which mueller was appointed. now,un ...

Would not have been required to have been reported until after the election. the idea that the payment was made to protect him from campaign only, well, all he had to do was admit it and report it after the election. no one would have known. >> we'll take it up again, i promise. the southern district of new york has a different version of the law than you do. >> prosecutors are aggressive inning looking at campaign finance -- >> it's not just prosecutors. >> most campaign finance laws, if you break them you get a fine. if that. so the idea that this is an impeachable offense is absurd. >> okay...

Pretty heavy thumb on the scales toward impeachment in the wake of watergate the country had been through the impeachment process when the president resigned. >> so what do we want a special prosecutor or independent counsel what we want them to do? we want them not just make prosecutorial decisions but write a report and send that report to the house of representatives it's one of the reasons, mark that justice scalia in his magnificent dissent in the case that upheld the constitutionality of the statute said accurate with the smell of impeachment under the regulations of which bob miller was...