and then said that he really couldn t make a decision. do you agree with that interpretation? i personally felt he could have reached a decision. in your view, he could have reached a conclusion. right, he could have reached a conclusion. the opinion says you cannot indict a president while he s in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity, but he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained, and i m not going to, you know, argue about those reasons, but when he didn t make a decision, the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, and i, felt it was necessary for us, as the heads of the department, to reach that decision. well, i mean, he seemed to suggest yesterday that there was another venue for this and that was congress. well, i m not sure what he was suggesting, but, you know, the department of justice doesn t use our powers of investigating crimes as an adjunct to congress. reporter: ali, here s the asymmetrical nature
things up in new york. thank you, friend, you have yourself a great afternoon. you, too. mueller is a true never trumper, after hours of mild reaction from his advisers, president trump finally spoke today about the now-former special counsel and his extraordinarily rare parting words. starting with a tweet just before 5:00 a.m., he began with a confusing admission saying, i had nothing to do with russia helping me to get elected. before declaring it all presidential harassment. roughlyhours later the president changed his mind. stopped to talk to reporters before heading to colorado to deliver the commencement speech at the air force academy. he said russia did not help him get elected then he continued his attacks against mueller. do you believe that russia helped you get elected? no, russia did not help me get elected. you know who got me elected? you know who got me elected? i got me elected. russia didn t help me at all. i think mueller is a true never-trumper. he s
from the year 2000 that says you can t indict a sitting president. so he says, look, i m not going to, you know, label the president a criminal or anything like that. but the evidence is all sthere n black and white for everyone to read which is why i think we saw the press conference from mueller yesterday emphasizing precisely this point which is i couldn t indict the president, even if i wanted to. i could clear the president if i had the facts to do so, but i couldn t. and now to answer your question, i think after ken starr and after lawrence walsh, there was a view that the independent counsel act went too far in the direction meaning gave the independent counsel too much latitude. exactly. and that they wanted to rein that in a little bit and put in some controls. like, for example, ken starr s deputies went and brought a case to the supreme court about attorney/client privilege and whether or not if your client dies then does the attorney/client privilege
divisive political and social issues. in mid 2014, ira employees travelled to the united states on what the report describes as a, quote, intelligence-gathering mission to obtain information and photographs for use in their social media posts. over time, these accounts became a means to reach large u.s. audiences. and in the months before the presidential election, ira operations included supporting the trump campaign and disparaging candidate hillary clinton. that s in the report. it s not up for debate. that s in the report. you can debate whether it s true or not, but the fact that it s in the report, something that the president tends to deny, is, in fact, undeniable. the russians did this through various activities, like buying political ads on social media, posting as americans and american entities. under this disguise, some ira employees communicated electronically with people associated with the trump campaign. and with other political activists looking to coordinate political
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