Already are. First, to Catherine Herridge in washington on what is going on right now. Hi, catherine. Good afternoon. A short time ago, in fact, within the last hour, we heard from nancy pelosi. Its important to listen to her choice of language. She commended House Democrats for pursuing issues of impeachment but then she said if they proceeded, they need to make such a solid case that republicans would have buyin. Heres the speaker. Nothing is off the table. We do want to make such a compelling case, an iron clad case that the Republican Senate which at the time seems to be not an objective jury, will be convinced of the path that we have to take as a country. Special Counsel Robert Mueller spoke for almost ten minutes today. I want to emphasize, he did not take questions from reporters that might have clarified some issues and gone to his motivation for making a Public Statement. He talked about Russian Election interference. He talked about that being systematic and broad. The emphasis has been on the obstruction issue. He talked about the olc opinion, the office of legal counsel. Its like the internal lawyer to the executive branch. Its housed in the Justice Department. He said that opinion says you cant indict a sitting president. Mueller said this was a major stumbling block in the investigation. Under Longstanding Department policy, a present president cannot be charged with a federal crime while hes in office. Its unconstitutional. Even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public crew, that too is prohibited. The special counsels office is part of the department of justice. By regulation, it was bound by that department policy. Charges the president with a crime was therefore not an option that we could consider. Mueller went on to say, under the regulations, his team gathered information for the future. He didnt reference congress or impeachment but that was the subtext. This does conflict with william barr. He testified that when he had a conversation with mueller and the failure to reach a decision on the obstruction charge, that mueller, according to barr, had put this legal opinion to one side and that theres underlying facts that would not go to a criminal prosecution. Special counsel mueller stated three times to us in that meeting in response to our questioning that he emphatically was not saying but for the olc opinion he would have found obstruction. He said that in the future, the facts of the case against the president might be such that a special counsel would recommend abandoning the olc opinion, but this is not such a case. Two final points. The special counsel gave the strongest indicator that he does not plan to testify publicly or privately to congress and there was another development that kind of flew under the radar. Weve got something from the Inspector General at the Justice Department. They have confirmed now a second former senior fbi executive was guilty of unauthorized leaks to the media and more importantly accepting gifts from the media. This goes to the ongoing probe of what people like to call the investigation of the investigators. Those involved at the genesis of the whole russia case, neil. Neil i keep forgeteding that, what the Inspector General will release. Thank you. Case closed. Thats what the president is saying of mr. Muellers remarks. To kevin corke with the very latest. Kevin . Neil, good to be with you. The president s opinion about this is clear. No obstruction, no conspiracy, no collusion. For the first time today since the genesis of the russia probe, we got a chance to hear from the special counsel himself who was dare i say decidedly less clear about those very topics. Let me share a bit of what the president had to say today online. He didnt say a whole lot, which may have surprised some people. He tweeted this. Nothing changes from the Mueller Report. There was insufficient evidence and there for in our country, a person is innocent. The case is closed. Thank you. All right. Case closed because they argued mueller said as much in his report and did again today. He didnt have the goods to accuse the president s of anything specific. Even though he had evidence that make it impossible to exonerate him. Still, mueller said today, its over. Sarah sanders agreed. We consider this case closed. He completed his investigation. Now hes closed his office and its time for everybody to move on. Hes going back to his private life and we think everybody else should, too. I think Catherine Herridge gave you a really good nugget a moment ago. Mueller seemed to throw the democrats an olive branch saying the man reason he could go forward with an allegation of obstruction is because of the long established rule against it. The president s lawyer, rudy guliani, isnt buying that. When a prosecutor cant reach a decision, thats the decision. Theres no case on obstruction, no case on collusion. I did it for eyes. I never exonerated anyone. I found is there enough evidence to bring a charge or isnt there. If theres not enough evidence, end of case. End of case says rudy guliani. Not so fast says jerry nadler. He says given that special counsel mueller was unable to pursue charges, it falls to congress to respond to the crimes, lies and other wrongdoing of President Trump and well do so. No one, not even the president of the United States is above the law. For mueller, doesnt look like he will testify short of a subpoena. I doubt that will happen. Back to you. Neil thanks, kevin. Heres the line from the special counsel mueller. The president s critics are having a field day with it. Take a look. If we had had confidence that the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so. We did not make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. Neil we should be clear here. Robert mueller didnt say anything today that wasnt already in his report. So what are we to make of this . Former whitewater independent counsel, robert wray. What is interesting, neither did the final report say if we had confidence that the president did commit a crime, we would have said so as well. So they couldnt conclude either way. What do you think of that . Well, what has gotten the white house and white house lawyers and the president s own lawyers appaplectic about that is what rudy guliani said. To once again throw that out there by a prosecutor in a situation in which how was the president supposed to respond to that. The only thing that you can say, look, a prosecutors job is to decide whether you have sufficient evidence to bring a case. Something that bob mueller could have done in a recommendation to the attorney general. Ultimately its the attorney generals call to decide whether or not to change neil do we know i thought we were 2 3s through this process even though barr was appointed attorney general. We had a headsup not only any indictments, any prosecutions, anything to suggest the word guilty of any of this, wouldnt people have said, all right, why are we doing this . Exactly. Thats what the president s lawyers have said. Are you kidding me . You have a special counsel appointed. Everybody understands that neil how did you handle yours . Other people come within the sights of the special counsel. Nobody should be under the illusion or delusion that this was the appointment of a special counsel to investigate conduct of the president. So it would be natural for someone to assume and for the public to come to expect that the special counsel was going to resolve that question, all questions. Neil he didnt. How did you resolve these issues . And to answer your prior question, you know, again, i think special counsel mueller suggested that if he felt strongly about the fact that the olc prior opinion should be revisited, he could have recommended that to the attorney general. Neil he didnt. The attorney general said in his testimony, that issue came up and that bob mueller said that this was not the appropriate case on which neil could he have used different words . Could he have said i cant indict a sitting president whatever but i can find this behavior he seems guilty look, he was mindful of exactly what got james comey into trouble. Youre not going to charge somebody. On the way out the door, youre going to say the conduct was careless. Neil that can be worse. Exactly. With regard to the Mueller Report, i never criticized anything about it except that one sentence. I dont think that sentence ought to be in the report. I dont think that even if you felt that way, i dont think neil that sentence being we couldnt exonerate him. Neil but you also couldnt indict him. There wasnt enough material there for you its fine neil its okay with the indicting. It fine to say that but its not fine to say if youre not going to recommend the charges be brought at the same time in a report to say that we didnt find the ability to be able to say that we could exclude the possibility that, you know neil but you also didnt find the possibility that he was guilty. Right. Neil so to emphasize the one without the other isnt fair. Again, my takeaway from today is did you learn anything new from this press conference that wasnt otherwise in the report . No. The only thing we learned is that the office is closing and hes returning to public life. Theres nothing that was already disclosed in the report. The other piece of news is that he has no intention of testifying. I agree with that. I thought for the longest time that the country and the nations best interests should accept bob muellers determination that its not appropriate for him to testify. He shouldnt have anything further to say other than what is already in the report. Neil robert ray, thanks very much. Now, stocks were already down on china concerns. That didnt help matters any. All of the uncertainty around this didnt help matters any either. Fox Business Networks susan li on a day that was confusing. A good way to put it, neil. We hit the lowest point of the session after muellers press conference and we had the broader s p 500 finishing at the lowest point in two months. The dow at its weakest in three 1 2 months. The good news. When the markets started to sell off, investors went in to buy. Its encouraging. It hit the floor. Markets are news sensitive. That include political unknowns like impeachment threats and hence we have investors running to the safety of u. S. Government bonds. That depressing bond yields. Tenyear notes yielding the lowest interest in 20 months, this is causing a concerning sign for investors. A februaphenomenon. The u curve is important because it precedes a recession. And china trade tensions heightened overnight. The peoples daily had an off ed piece warning the u. S. To not underestimate chinas ability to strike back in this trade dispute threating to cut off exports of rare earth which are needed in electronics and cars. With all of these uncertainties, thats why markets are pricing in and betting theres an over 80 chance that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. If youre cutting rates, neil, thats interesting. Back to you. Neil it is interesting. Susan li. Thanks very much. Back to the mueller drama. Where is this heading . Two key senators on both sides of the aisle are heading here to help explain. Maria ramirez . Hi. Maria ramirez mom maria Maria Ramirez. 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She said that bob muellers comments, his final before stepping down from his Justice Department position were all the proof that she needed to get impeachment proceedings going. She sits on the Senate Judiciary committee, cory booker, also a democrat that says that this warrants impeachment proceedings and the sooner the better. The republican that sitting there, senator tom tillis of north carolina. Senator, thank you for taking the time. Good to be with you, neil. Neil they both sit on your same committee. Let the impeachment. You say . I just got this email from cory booker, this is clearly politics, fundraising and president ial campaign politics. Cory booker tried the same tactic against Brett Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court hearings. They put out baseless allegations and tried to keep that story alive. Didnt go well for them. Had a sparticus moment. Theyre trying to do the same thing again. Theres no collusion. Theres no obstruction. Mueller didnt produce anything new today and we need to move on. Neil getting a lot of attention, muellers lines again that if we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. Now you can just as easily argue said if we had confidence the president did commit a crime, they would have said so as well. That is what is getting the attention. It was essentially an inability to come to a conclusion either way. So normally that means that you cant take action against someone because you dont have enough proof. That is not how its being presented. That is exactly right. A judiciary hearing when attorney general barr came before us, i asked him was it common for the conclusion of an investigation to actually seek to exonerate somebody. He said no. He found those paths just very odd. What the department of justice was tasked to do is determine if a crime was committed. They found inserve sent evidence to prove that there was a crime that was committed. The underlying crime that had to do with the election meddling and the other, the allegation that somehow justice had been obstructed. Neither of them rose to a level to where they felt like they had an indictable offense, which is exactly why the impeachment process is pure theater. The fact of the matter is, we a almost 450 page report that found no evidence of wrong doing. Thats what the house would act on. When it comes to the senate, its not going to go anywhere. It would be theater, more fundraising emails from the candidates, politics. At the end of the day, the bookers, the harrises, the warrens are misleading the public and trying to make something out of nothing. Neil as youre speaking, nancy pelosi is being questioned about the need for impeachment proceedings to begin. Shes obviously walking a fine line here. Shes no fan of necessarily diving head first into Something Like this. But shes still made it clear that theres enough to raise this very issue. What do you think democrats end up doing . In the house, is it your sense theyre going to pursue this and what do republicans do . I believe if it was left up to speaker pelosi, she would trust her instincts and know the American People are getting fed up with revisiting the same facts and trying to draw a different conclusion. She made be forced because of the pressure from the president ial candidates and members of her caucus to move forward. But i dont sense that that is something that she wants to do its going to give us more opportunities to point out that there was no collusion, there was no obstruction and this is pure raw politics. Ive seen it played it in Judiciary Committee every week. The American People are fed up with it. We need to move on, let the president i dont to do the good work hes doing and let them find something meaningful on policies to run on versus the politics of personal disruption. Neil do you worry that if the president were the president and this was for all i know a u. S. Senator or just an average citizen that the treatment would not have been as handoff as it was in this report . No, i dont think so, neil. I think if the special counsel and the dozens of people that worked on this full time for two years found evidence of a crime and substantial evidence to indict that they would have brought that up to the attorney general and it would have been left up to the attorney general to decide how to dispose of the case. They didnt find it. Neil thanks, senate. Why wasnt any reference to impeachment in that press release today . Senator mark warner after this. Fact is, every Insurance Company hopes you drive safely. But allstate actually helps you drive safely. With drivewise. It lets you know when you go too fast. And brake too hard. With feedback to help you drive safer. Giving you the power to actually lower your cost. 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Manage your wifi network from anywhere when you download the xfi app today. All right. After today, the president saying the case is closed. His words, his tweets as more democrats ramp up efforts to start impeachment hearings surrounding the president. Senate Intelligence Committee vice chair mark warner joins us. Senator good to have you. Thank you, neil. Neil i notice you did not take that route immediately. Why not . Neil, the biggest take away from mueller is where his started his statement and ended his statement about the russian intervention in our elections. Lets not take our eye off the ball on what happened and make sure it doesnt happen again. So i think when Congress Comes back because the white house hasnt been willing to acknowledge and take action on their own, we ought to pass Bipartisan Legislation to secure our elections, make sure theres a paper trail after every voting machine so we have an ability to audit, make sure others dont manipulate with fake accounts our elections Going Forward and pass legislation that would say in the future, if any Foreign Government tries to intervene in our election, there ought to be an obligation that the campaign theyre trying to help has an obligation to tell the fbi, all the law enforcement. My biggest interest is how do make sure that what the russians did in 2016 they dont do in 2020 for whatever candidate they choose. Neil does that explain why you called back and the chairman called back donald trump jr. To clarify things in that regard . We always said that people that testified before, if there were inconsistencies or other i tens, we reserve the right to bring them back. Im not going to talk about any specific witness, although i will say other members of the trump family have come back and testified. Thats been publicly reported. Neil has there been consistencies . Were going to go ahead and finish this investigation. Ours is not a criminal investigation. Its been a Counter Intelligence investigation. Im proud of the fact that we have unanimous conclusions about the way our Voting System was manipulated, about what the russians did and their use and misuse of social media. On a Going Forward bays is, russians may have helped a candid i didnt agree with in 2016 but that doesnt guaranteed that they might help something else. We have to make sure our systems are safe. Neil so when your house colleagues are moving aggressively on impeachment, not all of them, but those on or head key committees, they want the pursue that. You think that is a mistake . If they succeed it would go to the senate. It would go to you. Then what . That will be up to the house. I actually agree with the earlier speaker, tom tillis, nancy pelosi has been navigating this appropriately. Shes saying, hey, lets get more information, lets only look at this in a methodical basis. I think that process ought to continue. The one thing i would say that came out of today, i would probably disagree with the white house, i think mueller was clear, he reached no conclusion about whether the president broke the law or not on obstruction. How judiciary will pursue that. He was quite clear that if they felt the president was in the clear, they would have exonerated him. Mueller chose not to do. Neil he could have just as easily made a decision if he had enough compelling evidence to charge him something. He didnt do that either. Neil, i didnt hear it that way. I thought he went out of his way to say that the department of justice rules prohibited the indictment of a sitting president. We can leave that for legal scholars. It would be neil doesnt stop you from saying we think youre guilty of this offense. Might not go anywhere because of the rules and standards set up. But up like the ken starr record that he used the term guilty numbers of times, high crime, misdemeanor, no such terms were used here. Im not here to indicate one or the other. Im curious where you see it going. Because it doesnt seem to have an end game. Well, our committee, the senate Intelligence Committee, we have an end game. Were going to finish our investigation. Were going to put forward ideas and i put forward legislation, most all of it bipartisan, to make sure that our systems are not attacked a again in 2020. That was my biggest take away from bob mueller at the beginning of his statement, the end of his statement. Thats what chris wray warned us of. I really Wish Congress would spend more time making sure that we protect the integrity of the democratic process. I think that there would be pretty broadbased agreement bipartisan. I wish we had a white house that would lean in on this as well. We have not. Weve had a white house that the homela homeland secretary wanted to have a Cabinet Meeting and she was neil so you want to see more action there. I want to be clear on your thoughts on this again, sir. Many of your colleagues are intimating or saying say what you will of the russia involvement in 2016. Donald trump is not the duly elected president of the United States. Im thinking after all of this time, they cant let go of that. Do you share that view . Or do you see donald trump, whatever you personally think of him, politically you dont align with him, as the duly elected president of this country . I said repeatedly on this show, im not here to relitigate 2016. Im here to make sure that in terms of foreign intervention in our elections it doesnt happen again. In 2016, clearly the russians favored trump. They could favor somebody else Going Forward, this is not neil but he won that election fair and square . He is the elected of the United States. Im not here to relitigate. Neil thanks, senator. Mark warner from virginia. Were following those developments, also following can sass, the latest to be hit with a tornado. Its a nightmare in ohio. The states governor on what hes just discovering himself after this. Welcome to seattle. Where people are into coffee, tech, and retirement planning. The perfect retirement for me is doing the things that i want to do, not the things i have to do. Unlike seattle, less than half of americans participate in their Employer Retirement plans. So what keeps people more engaged in their retirement . I want to have the ability to easily transact online, great selection of funds, great advice, everything in one place. Helping people in their working years and beyond. Thats financial wellness. Talk to your employer or start a plan at prudential. Moving . 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Instead, theyve been here handing out water to the people that live here in this neighborhood, trying to help people that suffered more, their homes were damaged more than where they lived. If you look over here, we can see some of what weve seen in this area of trotwood. A lot of homes missing roofs, the sides of houses. Its like doll houses where you can see into them so perfectly that you can reach in and touch whatever youd like. Officials say they confirmed 11 tornadoes touched down in ohio overnight on monday. People that were here say when the tornadoes came through, it sounded like a Freight Train. Listen here. It was raining pretty bad. The winds were going crazy. All of a sudden, like massive Freight Train coming through the area. May were saying you dont want to go out there. A lot of people are still without power. They say theyre trying to deal with insurance and figure out where to stay. As you can see, staying in a lot of these homes right now is not an option. We spoke with people here that have lived in these homes for decades. Theyre having to pick up their lives and start over brand new. Neil . Incredible. Ellison barber, thanks very much. Stunning coverage. The ohio governor, mike dewine on how hes state is trying to recover from this after this. When you shop for your home at wayfair, you get more than Free Shipping. You get everything you need for your home at a great price, the way it works best for you, ill take that. Wait honey, no. When you want it. You get a delivery experience you can always count on. You get your perfect find at a price to match, on your own schedule. You get fast and Free Shipping on the things that make your home feel like you. Thats what you get when youve got wayfair. So shop now ohone day youll tell yourse grandkids about it. And theyll say, grandpa just tell us about humpty dumpty. And youll say, he broke his pelvis or whatever, now back to my creamy heinz mayonnaise. 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They were watching it on tv and radio. You know, if i had just walked up and looked at all of the homes without knowing anything, i would have thought a lot more people were killed. My wife and i were in a tornado that hit in ohio where dozens and dozens of people were killed. So i think were blessed. One person died in salina. If you look at these houses, youd think more people died. Neil and a lot of people were involved. Could have been a lot worse. Could have been worse. The news media did a great job tracking each different tornado. We think theres 15 to 20 counties that were hit in ohio. Montgomery county was hit. It came at night. This is much more terrifying. My wife, fran and i, were in columbus. Were from the dayton area. Were from green county. Fran was texting back and forth with Adult Children that live near us. One daughter does not have a basement. She went over to another daughters house that does have a basement. People were doing whatever they could to make sure that they stayed alive. Thank heavens. Most people did a great job. What theyre doing now, if you talk to people, you see how resilient people are. How tough ohhians are. Said we lost everything but were alive. We have each other and we have our kids. Neil thats right. Thanks to you, governor. Mike dewine. Governor of ohio. Trying to bring a state back together. Much more after this. Applebees new loaded fajitas. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Look limu. A civiliand fajitas. Buying a new car. Ug lets go. Limus right. Liberty mutual can save you money by customizing your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Oh. Yeah, ive been a customer for years. Huh. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. So, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. The United StatesPostal Service makes more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. 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Theyre worrying about it not continuing. Anything that would distract trump from doing the great job is a negative. Neil this is not red or blue. They like green. I like green. Neil thats why they didnt want to go see bill clinton go in the 90s. They like what was happening under his watch. I thought it was completely inappropriate to impeach bill clinton. May have been a flawed man. If they knocked him out of office, he still would have been a flawed man although not president. Neil so you dont want to see anything that disrupts this ride weve been on . Zero. Its important that we have a president of the United States that is focused on growing the economy, focused on providing jobs, employment and leave him alone. Hes doing a lot of wonderful things. The tax bill. Now its paying for itself as they know. The numbers are in. They yelled about it. Neil the economy is on fire. Its doing well. The deregulation. Hes got that one, which is a surprise billing. Hes gotten that one through, which is wonderful. Hes looking at other stuff on that area. Medical having neil so the possibilities here, working with the other side is problematic. But i also asked you during the break about hearings that can go in their own direction. Of course, with Richard Nixon, the house and senate were under democratic control. So it was a tough environment. And we were in tough economic times. I do remember the summer starting out before they really got rolling, most people dismissed that they would go anywhere. In fact, they were seen to be a nuisance and things evolved like the taping system in the white house, john dean, the cancer at the white house. It accelerated. I was in the white house at the time. What was the mood like . It was nothing. Just a couple of burglars going into the watergate. But if you look at the election of 1972, nixon won 49 in 50 states. Losing massachusetts. The reason he won is not because he was so popular. It was that mcgovern was like the crazy candidate. Now they think its new but its not. Neil it morphed into something world. You dont see the comparison. No. I think nixon was in that case a criminal. I think those things were really massive violations. They were neil we didnt have a report to precede it like with the Mueller Report. And it wasnt just water gate. The back dating of the president ial papers, going into the office with the plumbers. Neil there was a lot of stuff. All different. Like seven or eight separate events that were looked at in that time. Neil a lot of people use that comparison. I dont buy it. You shouldnt. Its not appropriate what nixon did that was great, china, opening up the United States. He wasnt a good president for the economy. He put on tariffs. Neil and you dont want to see this. Is great for the economy. I like green. Neil your honest about it. Thank you. Neil art laffer, the former reagan economic adviser. He loves green. 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Lets hear from a turning point founder and president charlie kirk, the year of the president , the wall street journal bill mcgurn, who probably has the respect of the president and a lot of other people. And to the College Professor of Political Science jeannie salo. We begin with you. Do you think that impeachment proceedings are inevitable . At least in the house it is looking that way. I hope that they are not inevitable. It is a bad strategy. It is a bad policy for democrats to pursue this. But i think that nancy pelosi has found herself caught between a rock and a hard place. Liberals and progressives that are right to say that if you think we are in a constitutional crisis, then you better file impeachment and begin the proceedings. So i think that this is a dangerous game for a leadership that is not wanted to pursue impeachment, but does not know how to maneuver and manipulate with this release thundering energy from the Progressive Left on this. Neil i get a sense of that as well, even when we had mark warner on, dealing with a separate investigation and the Intelligence Committee, he wanted to move forward to make sure that russians do not do this again, but leave it at that. It would be easier to go forward with impeachment if the economy was not doing so well. If we were in 08, 09 calamity, they could intercept peoples frustration with their livelihood with their political objective. But the fact that we have one of the greatest American Economy is in history and still creating wealth and jobs at the record that we are, it is a relieved half deal. Neil Richard Nixon was of course having a Democratic House insight, but also allowed the economy. Bill clinton, i still argue in retrospect was saved by the fact that he had a good marketing good economy going for him. Where do you think this works out . There something bigger with donald trump. He is not guilty of any of the crimes. Like some of the other ones. We had this huge investigation, no collusion pretty and i think when there is no underlying crime, what was he covering up . I think that it is outrageous. I think that it is outrageous that mr. Mueller declines the only decision is whether to prosecute or not, not to say that i am going to prosecute, but here are all of the bad things. Neil one of the things that i noticed is that we made a big deal, if we had confidence that the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so. By definition you can say, if we had confidence the president did commit a crime, we wouldve said so. And he did not. And i think what he did today was he put more pressure on the democratic leadership, he buttressed the argument of the progressives and the liberals who said, bob mueller a special investigator two years, he is saying that this is in the lap of the democrats in congress. Think about nancy pelosi, this is somebody who is a master vote counter, never puts up a vote unless you know she will win. You do not impeach unless you know you do not have bipartisan statement. Just to say, that is outrageous for a prosecutor to say that it is not their job. I dont know what it is about former fbi directors that they feel their job is to look into someones soul. It is not. We are presumed innocent until found guilty and charges. It is an outrageous abuse for him to do that. He pulls a james comey. What james comey did to clinton. Neil and to say that he was limited constitutionally and you are not limited in forcefully stating your opinion, he would be guilty of this or this is prosecutable. Otherwise dont do it. Why would you take the job if you cannot go anywhere . That is an excellent point, who gave him the authority to act as if he is guilty until proven innocent . The special prosecutor will put forth to prove Donald Trumps innocence . Neil and i wonder if we went into this thinking, he would issue a report and be limited to what he would say, wanted he just say, why are we doing this . And the problem is, why the special prosecutor law is written, rewritten after the impeachment of bill clinton and it is a mistake and needs to be rewritten or gotten rid of completely. You do not put somebody, i appreciate what youre saying, but you do not put somebody in a position of investigating and tying their hands. As he points out but that is how he felt. Then he should not have taken the job. It is on him. It is totally on him. Look at, independent counsel is corrupt, absolutely and special counsel is corrupt. This is a terrible way to do things. At least impeachment has some political accountability. Neil be clear, be focused and say something. Guys, thank you all very, very much. Hard to make sense of this, but we will do it on this network. Here comes the five. Jesse hello, everybody, i am jesse watters, along with kennedy, geraldo, and greg to talk and to this is the five. High drama and washington as Robert Mueller breaks his science, the special counsel making the first Public Statement since taking over the Russian Investigation two years ago. On collusion, mueller says there was insufficient evidence to prove a broader conspiracy between the Trump Campaign in russia and when it comes to obstruction, mueller says charging the president with a crime was not an option that his team could consider. He explains why