other than the president, would you have recommended diagnostic him? another way of saying that is, but for the justice department legal opinions that say you can't charge a sitting president, would you have, in fact, recommended charging him? i think a lot of americans who are watching this press conference thought that in so many words he was effectively saying, yes, i did identify criminal conduct that i would have moved forward on, but i could not. and i actually don't expect that he will go in that direction, but i have to imagine that that is on the minds of democrats because any sort of sliver in that direction would be a terrific coup for democrats. >> or they could use the corollary, that bill barr and donald trump kept saying no collusion and no obstruction and they could ask him to clarify that or simply, do you even agree with those words? >> that's right. now, the flip side, of course, is that if i'm a republican, i want mueller to state many times over and repeat very loudly what