this is what robert mueller said. at byvestigation found the president capable of exerting undue influence over law enforcement investigation. the president's efforts were mostly unsuccessful. that is because the person surrounding the president declined to carry out orders or a seat to his request. as a prosecutor, does that warned prosecution? jeffrey: you honed in on something different than how the attorney general profited. what did the person intent? even those around him, mcgann, who was his then counsel, and there was an iteration with corey lewandowski, he asked him to interfere. i think lewandowski handed it off to someone else. they saved him from himself but it is certainly one of the building box that could lead to an obstruction. that it didfound not rise to the level of a criminal conviction but perhaps congress can take it from here. david: let's talk about congress. attorney general william barr said robert mueller not asking congress to decide. congress can always decide to impeach. the attorney gene

says fire robert mueller. fire the special counsel. now, mcgahn ultimately does not fire him. he's one of the guardrails or was one of the guardrails of the trump presidency. and the white house goes out and once this breaks, i think it broke a year later in "the new york times," the white house lies about it. the white house says that never happened. it's fake news. but that act, potentially obstruction of justice. >> yes, the attempt to do so obstructs justice. the idea of him being ignorant of the law in that capacity, the very second he fired james comey, we can all recall that day, obstruction of justice was no longer like a nebulous term, it was floated because he was aware of that. his lawyers were brought in to undermine that assumption, and then it follows up with mcgahn and down the law, if there was a moment of ignorance of the law, that was in the rear-view mirror. the fact it was unsecsisful, the fact that maybe nobody carried out the particular endeavor does not say oh, then you never committed t

that robert mueller was not going to allege it because we saw robert mueller really did not leak very much. but he did charge people. he indicted people, he got guilty pleas. big figure after big figure, paul manafort, rick gates, michael flynn, george papadopoulos, cohen and others and charge them with various things like paul manafort, basically not for paying taxes years earlier. and the others, some be charged with lying to fbi investigators. but he never alleged that there was a conspiracy or coordination between the trump campaign and moscow. and you are thinking, if paul manafort, if there was this -- paul manafort was not involved, who was colluding here? so it is something that people in the press should have been able to see this whole time. so it is not really a mistake. i was talking to john dowd, the president's lawyer, from right after the appointment robert mueller until march 2018. and he felt that by christmas, of 2017, that robert mueller had pretty much established that there was no collusion. mark: let me stop you there, that's a big deal. >> yes. mark: that is ove

the last abuse of power by robert mueller. you can see why the left is desperate to keep the ag, barr under wraps and to suppress and actually try to stop press conferences like the one this morning. lou: can you believe nadler was so foolish as to even -- i mean, you know what he is. but you still can't imagine he would be so foolish as to try and stop the attorney general of the united states will hold a press conference. >> i'm convinced the attorney general saw this garbage report from robert mueller that exonerates the present while trying to smear him and says, i see what is going on here. i will get to the heart of the matter. no collusion, no obstruction and the team i'm convinced and the democrats knew this, wanted to just drop the report on the american people, 448 pages of you know, hocus-pocus and -- lou: it is fairly silly. >> innuendo and fake legal analysis. a big op-ed against the president. william barr wasn't going to let them do that. lou: this makes you feel very authoritative holding up this break of nonse

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and deliberately and investigate every aspect of what robert mueller has put out there in his report. you have these two very disparate wings of the party that are struggling to unify in this post robert mueller report world. colleagues,our hill covering the story, this meeting, and you are tweeting about it. democratichis," leaders on conference call seek to reign in calls for impeachment, but some rank and file question that approach, arguing there's plenty of evidence to launch impeachment proceedings." you also note that at the same time, that subpoena by the goesiary committee chair out to former white house counsel don make again. is that a next message -- don mcgann. is that in next message? -- a mixed message? scott: i don't think that's a mixed message. there was a subpoena issued just as this meeting was underway, to send a message to the rank and file members, who are clamoring for impeachment, to say, we are going to use the robert mueller report as a guidepost. he has left a number of breadcrumbs. we have heard this analogy this week. we have to follow the breadcrumbs. g

mueller is a rule-follower, and robert mueller was also unlike kenneth starr who was an independent counsel, robert mueller was an employee of the united states department of justice bound by its policies, and he went into this job knowing that this is a policy that says that you cannot indict the president, and i think that had to color everything that followed, including his ultimate decision not to resolve the question of whether he believes there was obstruction of justice because he couldn't prosecute the president anyway. >> and they thought if he did have an opinion and stated it and said we believe there's obstruction and we can't be prosecuted, he felt that would unfairly tarnish the president without the president being able to defend himself in a court of law. >> which is an extremely important point. so different from how attorney general barr portrayed the decision. >> right. >> barr portrayed the decision both in his news conference several weeks ago and just this morning. it's like the question was too close for robert mueller to determine. that's not what happen here

about an hour ago the robert mueller report was

the evidence robert mueller uncovered, the report revealing the president wanted robert mueller fired. and who he wanted to do it. and tonight, why did robert mueller stop short on obstruction of justice? pierre thomas and dan abrams standing by. >>> president trump's response tonight. >> no collusion, no obstruction. >> this evening, what the mueller report reveals. was the president saved a number of times by members of his own team who refused to do what he asked? jon karl live at the white house. >>> and tonight, democrats erupting in anger, demanding robert mueller testify before the american people. mary bruce on the hill. >>> also badwa as ome on r. already a number of reported tornadoes. the severe storm threat from new orleans all the way east. tonight, tomorrow, good friday and passover. and rob marciano has the track and timing tonight. >>> what caused the fire at the notre dame cathedral? tonight, what we have just learned. >>> here in new york city, the scare inside st. patrick's cathedral. what authorities have now veale. >>> the major change tonight for anyone taking an

mandate. >> robert mueller will not be there for any of the press conference. democratic leaders nancy pelosi of the house and chuck schumer of the senate are calling on mueller to testify publicly before congress as soon as possible. so the public can hear his conclusions and possibly a rebuttal of what we are about to hear from attorney general bill barr. don't forget, this investigation has led already to 199 criminal counts, 37 people and entities being charged, seven guilty pleas. don't forget these six associates of president trump were indicted, all as part of this investigation. we're going to bring you live coverage of attorney general barr's news conference which is set to begin moments from now. democrats are accusing the attorney general of trying to spin ahead of time the mueller report in the president's favor in advance of its release. i want to bring in jessica schneider. give us a preview of what we expect to hear from the attorney general this morning. >> as members of congress and the american public actually wait to get their hands on this r

why not let robert mueller or green light any effort to have robert mueller interview the president, or does that render the whole thing moot and pointless and rigged? a question that matt asked, it came up in the reporting. >> i think you're right, nicole. if you read the written responses that the president wrote on the conspiracy issues, they were a joke. basically he said, i don't recall over and over and over. and he provided no responses on the obstruction matters. and if you recall, obviously, in the -- our most recent example in history of independent counsel activities not only did independent counsel ken starr interview then president bill clinton, he drew blood. literally, the guy rolled up a sleeve, they injected a needle and drew blood from his arm. our president wouldn't answer the questions of the special counsel. it was a stone wall. i think the answer is if you dodge the special counsel you can get away with a lot. >> matt, i want to give you the last word, i want to underscore this is an analysis that people read, but you've also written about and reported on the so

and it wasn't lost on robert mueller. what rings through to me is what a bunch of sort of unethical -- i want to use words that won't get me in laura ingram's opening montage today. what a group of unethical acting people. >> cally wags. >> yeah. >> sarah sanders smearing jim comey from the podium saying that -- talking about his leadership at the fbi when under questioning with mueller's investigators saying heat of the moment. you're the white house press secretary. >> heat of the moment i wasn't exactly truthful about that. yeah, nicole, this is why this team in the white house has been so nervous about this. not only about how this piece of the puzzle connects them to the president that may get them in trouble with the president, but how it fleshes out the story lines that our friend like mr. lemire and others have been tracking and following and reporting consistently like a drum beat, without fanfare, without hyperbole saying these are the facts as they're being developed and evolving right now. and now we get to si

again robert mueller didn't say if there was insufficient evidence of collusion. he said, "no evidence." he said, "there isn't any evidence" so if there wasn't any evidence of collusion what was the probable cause, what was the predicate for the obama justice department to go to the fisa court and represent that there was probable cause of a crime of a conspiracy with russia and the folks that made those varifications, they got some explaining to do maria. maria: we should point out that carter page was the one who got wiretapped and that means they listened in on his phone calls, got all his e-mail communications, so that was a window into the trump campaign, carter page was never charged with anything, was he? >> not charged with anything and maria, isn't going to be charged with anything, nor is any other american, because as robert mueller said, there is no evidence of any american conspiring with russia, so again , what was the predicate for this? this is why the focus needs to shift now to those folks in the intelligence community, and at the justice departm

we do know that there were efforts made by robert mueller's team to interview him and that don jr. through his attorneys resisted those efforts, and it appears there wasn't a subpoena. there could be various reasons. robert mueller laid out the reasons for the president, that it could prolong the investigation if there was subpoena and they felt that they had all they need. could be the case in don jr.'s situation because he did testify under oath in congress to various committees and could have looked at the testimony and thought they had enough but it's certainly an open question. >> i want to quote the report which says in part a prosecution would encounter difficulties proving that campaign officials or officials connected to the campaign willfully violated the law. that's what pamela is speaking to there. why is it so important whether they willfully vie late the law or not? >> i think that's something specific to the campaign finance laws. there's specific aspects as far as the campaign finance laws whether or not they actually would have known what they were doing. i think p

mueller's report are even though we haven't heard from robert mueller himself. >> and again and again and again repeating this notion there wasn't -- what the evidence didn't show. the evidence didn't show collusion and basically he would take the legal term conspiracy and then say so what this really means is there's no conclusion. that's where he gets into dangerous territory. you can say robert mueller's report found there was no conspiracy with the russians to interfere in the election. when you then start summarizing what that means, you're now going to a different level. i think that's the danger. you heard that reporter about whether he was talking about his emotions and his feelings. he talked about the context. let's put this into context. why is the attorney general putting it into the context? >> the phrase the president was facing an unprecedented situation. of course several presidents have been investigated in the past. i want to hold on because pierre thomas is in the room. it seemed tense, pierre. >> reporter: the attorney general sought to lay out orally what he had s

president, did you seek to fire robert mueller? >> fake news, folks. fake news. >> what's your message today? >> typical "new york times" fake stories. >> so time and time again the president and his allies, the press shop at the white house have told us that stories that wind up being true, like that "new york times" reporting about him trying to fire robert mueller, they essentially say that these stories are fake. so how can the white house point to this report and say, see, this is the truth, this is what really happened, when it paints them out to be liars? >> it is a difficult con torsion, boris, but one theme that was clear from the report going through page after page was, yes, a lot of the account that you've read over the past two years in "the new york times", washington post, you've seen it on cnn and elsewhere, trump has denied it, mueller now says it's true. the most jarring of them being that secret effort to fire robert mueller multiple times only being stopped, thwarted by white house aides like don mcgahn. that was a big theme from th

just the two of them, no robert mueller. it's worth pointing out at the outset that robert mueller will not be there at the press conference tomorrow because that's weird. the announced, the declared purpose of the press conference is to discuss robert mueller and his findings, so it's therefore a little weird that he's not invited. it's like a surprise birthday party where the surprise is you don't get to come even though it's your birthday. mueller submitted his report on the findings of his investigation 26 days ago. since then william barr has released his own descriptions of what he says are mueller's findings. he has released his own instant prosecutorial conclusion that what mueller turned up as evidence should not be used to bring any charges against the president. after press reports from the "new york times" and "the washington post" and nbc news, all turned up that members of mueller's team felt blind sided by those declarations of william barr. they were angered by him misrepresenting the findings of their invest

this line from robert mueller, let's talk about the report. this line from robert mueller, if let's talk about the report. this line from robert mueller, if we let's talk about the report. this line from robert mueller, if we knew that the president didn't perform obstruction of justice, that the president didn't perform obstruction ofjustice, we would say it. but interestingly is, president trump said it is game over, there is no collusion. that's the end of everything. if you look at the report, it says that he himself was terrified when investigation was launched by robert mueller. he thought, this is terrible, it's the end of my presidency. the last line isa end of my presidency. the last line is a profanity. it shows that he himself feared what might happen and it seems as if the democrats are going to pick up on some of those aspects that have been found in the robert mueller reporter and that chair of the justice committee says the report was probably written with the report was probably written with the intent of providing a roadmap wh

mueller which in the few words we've seen from robert mueller, there was not. robert mueller wrote, we do not exonerate trump on obstruction. barr has embraced all three. he is a lot more dangerous if you don't like the way donald trump seems to trample on the rule of law and a lot more of a booster if you're a trump backer. >> i was going to say we covered the barr hearings together, brian, and i think the signs were there'ven at that time. first barr had written this 19-page memo last summer which made silly legal claims to try to protect donald trump saying he couldn't obstruct justice. and back when he was attorney general for president bush, he did the famously the iran contra pardons announced on the eve of the holiday and the like. it's not surprising that we testifies last week and says while the fbi may have engaged in unlawful spying. an extraordinary thing for him to say about his own people. >> i have heard we may hear the s-word this morning and we may see an attempt to focus -- refocus attention on one christopher steele. for now carol lee is our

i would be very happy to see robert mueller come and testify. and if robert mueller says, you know, the summary that attorney general barr put out reflects the tone of the report, fine, that would be great. this is about the fundamental protections of our government. and this needs to be thoroughly finished, and then let us move on to actual policy that's affecting people day-to-day. >> reporter: it's two pronged, it's what garrett said where democratic strategists and operatives have been saying, they are not out here to campaign on robert mueller because frankly that's not what most voters say is top of the list as the most important issue. at the same time, i think democratic voters feel that they want transparency on this, and in talking to the same voter this morning over text, he said that the obstruction piece of the mueller investigation, everything that we have learned yesterday and overnight, that's the thing that he wants to make sure that we really do drill down on. he doesn't want this idea of what trump says as old news in this rep

fire robert mueller. this just kept coming up and aggravating the president more and more. and i think robert mueller included that in his report so we can see the president's frame of mind. that gets me to my third big takeaway and that is how little of the president's frame of mind this white house provided to special counsel, his office because they go through how they waited for over a year, back and forths with the president's lawyer to try to get a sit-down interview. they refused and then the questions that they got back, the written answers to those questions, were so sparse. over 30 times said he did not recall or did not remember, did not have an independent recollection of certain events. that shows, again, that the attorney general is not giving us the substance of this report which he said contradictly that this white house had coordinated and given over everything and they fully cooperated with the investigation. >> all right. julia ainsley, well done from outside the justice department. i w

they want to hear from robert mueller himself. they want to hear from bill barr, the attorney general. they also have their own investigations into other thaspects o report might not have covered, like financing of the actual campaign. so although robert mueller's investigation is done, the report is out, this is not over. will it be an issue for the campaign? a lot of americans say they don't want to keep talking about it, they have other things on their minds. i don't know, it is difficult to say how politically they can move on from this, but it is difficult also to see how they can continue ignoring it. laura: jane o'brieat the white house, thank you. while the president was 'celebrating'today's report, as jane was saying, democratt took a differew. earlier, my colleagues katty kay and matthew price spoke to democratic congresswoman jackie speier from california, who sits on the intelligence committee. katty: congresswoman, it seems that this is up to ss and democrats in congress. what do you do with this report now? rep. spei

told robert mueller's team that things that were false. remember, these witnesses who are named in the report, including former white house counsel don mcgahn, reince priebus, rick dearborn, white house officials, they were speaking to the fbi under penalty of lying, which they could be charged for. which people in the robert mueller probe were charged for, lying. and so you have to remember that. and robert mueller's team, through this report, went into painstaking detail, analysis, corroboration of what witnesses told them. for example, in the episode about donald trump telling his white house counsel to call rod rosenstein and remove robert mueller because of conflicts of interest, the president then later told don mcgahn that he actually just meant to call doj and tell them that there was a conflict of interest and convey this information. but then, robert mueller's team analyzed that, and how that wouldn't make sense for the president to call his white house counsel on a saturday just to convey something to doj. and so, on all account

robert mueller's long-awaited report on russian interferenceen has eleased. it raises questions of obstruction, but president trump is claiming a win. pres. trump: they are having a good day. i'm having a good oo. it is called "no collusion, no obstruction." laura: democrats say not so fast. they are claiming there is disturbing evidence of misconduct, and they want answers. >> attempting to obsuct justice is a crime. there is no question that the president attempted to obstruct justice. laura: the fight for control of the libyan capital. the violence is growing as a warlord ies to seize tripoli from the government. laura: welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and around the globe. mr. trump feared the mueller report would be the end of his presidency. now it is out and he iy.claiming vict the 448 pages revealed the trump campaign thought it would benefit from information stolen by russia. there is no finding of a conspiracy between the campaign and moscow, but the report does not exonerate trump on obstruction of justice and ttails how

he worked with robert mueller. i mean they took time to get the report done and obviously, looking to see what needed to be redacted in terms of ensuring that it would protect sensitive information. i think it was important for the attorney general to be able to talk about the process that they push forward in looking at this report. i think it was an important move for the attorney general and of course, these democrats, they are on a mission. they have been on a mission to make this president be a guilty party. and this is not the way america functions. what we have seen in terms of what the report has shown is that there was no collusion. the absence of evidence of obstruction. no underlying crime for obstruction. and so it was very clear that the president has as we have seen, they did not conspire. with any russians. and so this is a moment right now for our nation to move on. what i think you will see is that the democrats are still going to be stuck in their impeachment mentality. which i think is devastatin

that they should fire robert mueller. it's arguable that the actions of donald trump ‘s aides have saved donald trump from himself, because if they'd carried out his orders there may well be a genuine case for obstruction of justice. jon sopel in washington, steve rosen birding moscow, thank you both. —— steve rosenberg in moscow, thank you both. the nhs is failing to meet its own target for the care of people with learning disabilities and autism according to new figures. some of the most vulnerable, including children, are being treated as hospital in—patients rather than being cared for in the community. more than 2,000 vulnerable people are still in long—stay hospitals in england. the nhs promised to cut that number by between 35% and 50% over three years. but so far it has only managed a 19% reduction. campaigners say these patients are trapped and at risk of abuse and neglect. 0ur social affairs correspondent alison holt reports. gill mead keeps her daughter leigh's bedroom ready for the day when she final

also democrats want to hear directly from robert mueller. he has been asked to testify publicly in the next month. the trump campaign says the tables have turned and it is now to investigate the people who instigated this report. hello. when president trump was told that a special council had been appointed to investigate his campaign's dealings with russia, he slumped into his chair, swore and declared, this is the end of my presidency. that is one of the things we have learned in this massive document, the 448 pages of the mueller report released just three hours ago. despite his initial horror, donald trump was optimistic about the report's findings, declaring in a dramatic tweet, game over. no collusion, no obstruction. the white house as the investigation has exonerated the president, cleared him and his associates of all suspicion and now they say he can get on and do hisjob all suspicion and now they say he can get on and do his job and focus on being re—elected. can get on and do his job and focus on being re-elected. but this actu

and so donald trump fired robert mueller. and robert mueller stayed on the job. william barr knew that that passage was in the mueller report when he told us yesterday thatond cooperated fully with the mueller investigation. today it was congress' turn to be directly insulted by william barr. democratic congressional leaders immediately turned down barr's offer to them that they alone be able to see some of the redacted material in the mueller report. the chairman of the house judiciary committee which has jurisdiction over impeachment immediately and correctly according to all congressional precedent refused. >> i've been invited to read the less redacted version of the report on condition that we take no notes and tell nobody about what we read. what's the point of that? congress is a collective body. and if i read something and i can't tell the other committee members about it or the other members of congress, it's useless. that's frankly it's insulting to congress. we will work to have an accommodation with the attorney general. but in terms of seeing the res

but from his two—year long battle with robert mueller, he feels he has emerged unscathed with reputation intake. he said his guests were having a good time. i'm having a good day too. it was called no collusion, no obstruction. before publication of this long—awaited report, the president tweeted this with its game of thrones styling. his team, confident, putting out this video. no collusion. the 400—page report is riveting and dramatic. it describes the fallout from the firing of the fbi director james comey. the then—attorney generaljeff sessions goes in to see the president to tell him he has decided to appoint a special counsel to investigate russian collusion and obstruction of justice. donald trump is furious and uses very strong language. the report conveys an image of a white house in total meltdown with the president angrily demanding that robert mueller be fired. don mcgahn is repeatedly told to arrange for mueller to be sacked. mcgahn refuses. of the president's attempts at influence, the reports says, they were mostly unsuccessful, largely because the persons who surrou

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well, robert mueller makes it clear that we were right. and it's sort of shocking the degree to which the president told people over and over again, make this story up, go tell the press this is what happened, and then later when it comes out that that's a lie, you know, no one apologizes or says that they lied. >> peter, i want to dive into the specifics and pick up this thread from caroline, because that they lie is something that those of us who cover them and call them and ask them questions and then are left with their responses to somehow weigh against the facts that have been unearthed and uncovered from other places, having encountered you much more than me and your colleagues that cover this investigation, but these are lies that were exposed in the mueller report. the rational -- and examined by robert mueller. the rational for firing comey. the efforts to remove special counsel robert mueller from his post. the efforts to lie about removing mueller. the elaborate campaign to get mcgahn to knock down a story written by your colle

neither did robert mueller. and so the president is clean and he is exonerated. >> i don't like talking over because it's rude to the audience, and ui want to be respectful, but you stated that the olc finding had nothing to do with what mueller ended up doing and how he acted. that's simply not true. it says so in the report. it's a very detailed explanation of why he did that. i'm wondering what you make now. we now know that sarah sanders admitted under oath that she made up statements about why comey was fired. not only that, the press office at the white house tried to get rod rosenstein to say something that wasn't true, that he was the one responsible, it was his idea about getting rid of comey. >> fist of all, i worked for mike huckabee when he was governor of the state of arkansas. i've known sarah sanders since she was 19 years old. she can well defend herself. i'm not here to speak on behalf of sarah sander. >> i'm not asking you to speak on behalf of her. >> it's an honor to work for this president.

and robert mueller obtained those notes. robert mueller also obtained under oath testimony from the person who wrote those notes. and everyone else who was in the room. except donald trump, of course, who refused to speak to the special prosecutor. it was one of the many dramatic scenes described in the mueller report. days earlier, the president had fired fbi director james comey and believed that that would be the end of the russia investigation and that the fbi was already conducting. the president was in the oval office with attorney general jeff sessions who had recused himself from supervising at investigation. white house council don mcgahn was in the room along with jody hunt who was taking the notes that robert mueller used to reconstruct the scene. they were there to conduct interviews for a new fbi director. and they didn't know that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who was supervising the russia investigation now had just appointed robert mueller as special counsel. page 78, volume 2 of the mueller report.

president, did you want to fire robert mueller? >> fake news, "new york times" fake stories. >> turned out it was true. that was just one of many trump claims that the mueller report has proved to be untrue. sarah murray is here now. to look at others. >> reporter: well it is not illegal for the president and the white house to lie to the american public and for that president trump is very lucky because the mueller report certainly exposed a number of falsehoods. remember all of the times that then candidate trump said he had nothing to do with russia and no business deals in russia and we learn they were pursuing the trump tower moscow project for far longer than anyone was willing to talk about and the infamous trump tower meeting and president was insistent this was a meeting about adoptions and afterwards he played a role in adjusting the statement so it said the meeting was about adoptions rather than anything on dirt on hillary clinton. we learned from the mueller report and reporting this is a meeting to get dirt on hillary

it is important to hearfrom robert mueller directly. we can infer some things from what he says on the report. we can infer that he decided that because there is this legal conclusion by the justice department, the legal interpretation of the american constitution is that a sitting president — unlike in israel — cannot be indicted. robert mueller said that if he had sufficient evidence it would be unfairto make sufficient evidence it would be unfair to make that declaration because against the backdrop of this opinion that you cannot prosecute a president, he would not be able to defend his name in a trial. he left theissue defend his name in a trial. he left the issue to congress and potentially to future prosecution if and when the president of the united states leaves office. he isn't clear to say we haven't preserved the evidence while it is fresh. do you think the democrats, who seem to be divided on this issue, should push the impeachment process? elizabeth warren saying absolutely, definitely yes, others like bernie sanders s

i think it is important to hear from robert mueller directly. so he can answer forthrightly why he did it this way. we can infer some things from what he says on the report. among other things, i think we can infer that he decided that, because there is this legal conclusion by the justice department, that your viewers may not be aware of, the legal interpretation of the american constitution on the part of thejustice department is that a sitting president? unlike in israel ? that a sitting president cannot be indicted or prosecuted. against that backdrop, bob mueller said, if i had sufficient evidence to say that there was a commission of a crime, it would be unfair for me to make that declaration because, against the backdrop of this opinion that says you can't prosecute a president, he would not be able to clear his good name in a trial, so i'm going to fall short of that. i think it is also clear that he was leaving this issue to congress and he was also leaving it to potentially to future prosecutors if and when the president of the united

robert mueller found no critical conspiracy to prosecute. this is a historic document we now have, even in this redacted form, and there are profound implications. there is all kinds of evidence in this report of major misconduct by the trump administration and trump campaign and on obstruction in particular where mueller conspicuously and explicitly did not make a conclusion about whether or not there was obstruction. if you look at the array of evidence there is all kinds of efforts by trump and people around him in his inner circle to try and cover up and obstruct and lie and block this investigation. on those attempts, i founded fascinating and it stuck out to me that this idea that donald trump asked his subordinates to do things, they did not do them and because they did not do them, how did they, in a way, they saved him. many people are discussing that today and in a sense that is true. on the other hand i think it is also worth noting that most of all those people are now gone from the administration which is troubling to consider t