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Get that briefing? have you heard anything more about timing on that is it something you want to see? >> i am optimistic we'll get that briefing. i'm on the house foreign affairs committee. we have no treaty with saudi arabia and an attack on saudi arabia is not an attack on the u.s. there's no basis to go to war. the only way donald trump can go to war in the middle east on behalf of saudi arabia is to come to the american people and come to congress to get a declaration of war first. >> so when president trump, for example, over the weekend tweets that he's going to see what the kingdom, wha...

The crime very clearly with all the evidence that shows that had he not been the president, he would have been indicted for those crimes. >> right. but the exchange with ted lu is misleading because mueller walked it back. he said he didn't mean to say what he said. >> he was very careful not to say what the report makes clear, if you read the report. because he doesn't think it's fair to charge -- to say the president is charged when he can't -- when there can be no trial because of the department of justice rule. but he lays out in the report evidence that clearly establishes all three eleme...

It doesn't seem to have been an inflection point for many house democrats. why do you think that is? >> i think it was an inflection point that it broke the administration's lie, the attorney general's lie that the president was totally exonerated by the mueller report. quite the contrary, there was very damning evidence put forward on the record. and i think as the american people understand that, as people absorb that information, as we bring out more evidence, people will understand the gravity of the situation. it's not one that can be ignored. >> at your press conference on friday you sai...

There are many of those. or double down on a weak hand and demand robert mueller testify before congress. they chose the latter. mueller himself didn't want to participate in this. he didn't see the point of it but democrats insisted. so this wednesday mueller shuffled to capitol hill, and the democrats prodded him like a zoo animal to hope he would transform to clarence darro and denounce trump as a traitor to the nation and a war criminal. but he didn't do that. so california's ted lu pushed him. he tried to make mueller explain he didn't indict trump but trump should still be in prison. >> ...

All along. finally, ted lu was able to extract the truth from robert mueller. president trump is a criminal. except not. a few hours later mueller backtracked and clarified he had not called the president a criminal. watch. >> before we go to questions i want to add a correction to my testimony this morning. i want to go back to one thing that was said this morning but mr. lu who said, "you didn't charge the president because of the o.l.c. opinion." that is not the correct way to say it. as we said in the report, we did not reach a determination whether the president committed a crime. >> tuck...