Necessity for the entire Mueller Report to be revealed. It needs to be a transparent process. 80 of the American Public wants this to happen, including republicans. The u. S. House of representatives unanimously passed a resolution calling for the report to be released in its entirety. All right. Weve just lost our connection with denny heck, but a very Important Development unfolding right now. Wement we want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington. Only moments ago President Trump reacted to the summary of Robert Muellers findings, claiming he was totally exonerated, calling it an illegal takedown, the entire russia investigation that failed. Thats from the president of the United States. Robert mueller did not find that President Trump, his campaign, or his associates conspired with russia according the Attorney General, william barr. Barr also says mueller did not have enough evidence to
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repeating what was written will be advantageous to the democrats case here. might have power, no question. joined now by jeffrey toobin, manu raju on the hill. jeffrey, as adam schi iff made clear yesterday, this was not a friendly subpoena. mueller did not want to come to testify. he is coming to testify. so the question is what is he willing to answer? how often will he say, listen, hey, it s not repoin the reportt go there, i ll refer that to a private session? how much can the special counsel do that when he s in the chair facing these hard questions? he can do it a lot. there really is not an immediate mechanism that the democrats or the republicans for that matter can use to force him to answer questions once he s in that chair. i think they can rely on his good faith. i don t think robert mueller is
pursue. including the fact he was not exonerated, president trump was not exonerated on obstruction of justice. there are also a lot of questions that i think democrats have about the lack of explanation for the trump tower moscow meeting, for the sharing of polling. so this will continue as it was going to before. the obligation or the role of mueller was always to investigate and then pass it along. that s exactly what s going to happen. there has to be a credibility reckoning for these democrats. adam schi iff especially. all assured the american people they had evidence. it s been fashionable lately to say they came with receipts. they promised this for two years, and it s been completely blown up today by the special counsel s report. that s number one. number two, it strikes me that what mueller has proven beyond a shadow after a doubt is russia interfered with our election, that trump had nothing to do with t and it all occurred on obama s watch. we need an accounting of how w
republicans are arguing that there is a genuine national security and humanitarian crisis on the border that needs to be addressed somehow. so obviously there were a lot of differing opinions about the situation floating around right now. just take a listen to the starkly different opinions voiced by democratic congressman adam schi iff and republican congressman jim jordan. thmplt is t . this is the first time congress is refusing funding for the particular project a president is advocating. in saying just the other day he didn t really need to do this, he just wanted to do it because it would help things go faster, he s pretty much daring the court to strike this down. all i know is this is a serious situation, this is a crisis, look 59 drug problem, the human trafficking problem, the gang violence problem. that s why we need the border security wall, and that s what the president is committed to making sure happens.
memo. they re going to be voting on that democratic response to the republican memo later today, and the white house indicating that the president will give it the same type of consideration that he gave to the republican memo. but andrea, all of this sort of underscores the mounting tensions not only between the president and democrats like adam schiff, but between the president and the fbi, the law enforcement community, and you have some republicans coming forward. trey gowdy, as well as chris stewart, you just played some of that, saying, look, this memo doesn t impact the russia probe at all. so president trump tried to make a very difficult case, even though he doesn t have the backing of his own party. of course, all of this really complicating efforts to try to keep the government open, set to run out of money later this week, andrea. and to carol, i want to go over the president s very personal, aggressive attack on adam schi iff today.