Well with children with just fifty songs and a tap on your smartphone to gather Global Hunger please download the app. This is the that we use live from in the United States the Special Counsel reports into russian interference in the twenty sixteen president ial election goes public to u. S. Attorney general william has been giving a briefing weeks after releasing the summary of the full report which found no evidence of collusion between moscow and president bushs Election Campaign so will the full report tell the same story to washington. Also on the Program India begins
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then b given the back of its hand. why is that important? it s not our egos. our egos are not bruised by that. what matters is there s a serious legal issue about whether the attorney general s office is correct or not. that serious legal issue should have gotten more consideration in a report that reaches a conclusion about illegality. that s one example. there will be others that relate to the governor, personally that will be discussed. the second thing i want to talk about in terms of fairness is in terms of the transcript. many witnesses testified. many were chamber employees. many were interviewed without court reporters. in were interviewed with court reporters. it s now 76 hour since the attorney general s press conference. not one of those witnesses and their lawyers has a copy of the transcript as we understand it of their own client s interview. nobody. this t assembly seems to be
got a, mischaracterized and give the back of its hand in a foot note. what matters is, there s a very serious legal issue about whether the attorney general s office is correct or not. and that serious legal issue should have gotten more consideration in a report that reaches a conclusion against ill legality. that s one example. the second thing i want to talk about in terms of fairness is in terms of the transcript. many witnesses testified, many of them were chamber employees. many were interviewed without court reporters, many of them were interviewed with court reporters. it s now 76 hours since the attorney general s press conference. not one of those witnesses and not one of their lawyers has a copy of the transcript as we
instances of purported obstruction that the special counsel raised and we didn t think any of them rose to the level of obstruction. the special counsel was very, very clear in the report that you have to look at all of them put together. you have to look at the timing of each event and how one may have influenced the other. that analysis seems to have changed by the time it got to the attorney general s press conference. i think what the special counsel is saying is, you really have to sit down and read the whole report and at that point, make the reason decision whether you re going to move ahead with impeachment or not. if you look at the timeline and you look at them combined, it is a much different picture than if you sort of nitpick one by one. you have michael cohen sitting in front of congress saying the president, as president, wrote me a check to reimburse me for covering up something that i
get more than from a d w correspondent helen humphrey in washington welcome helena what more did we learn from the attorney general s press conference. well i think it s fair to say that the attorney general william barr came out and he delivered a u. spirited defense of the u.s. president during this press conference saying once again that there was no collusion and instead focusing on the russian interference into the twenty sixteen presidential election and in doing so seemingly taking the heat off the president he also referred to the obstruction of justice and he set out the avenues which the special counsel robert miller had investigated during the course of his two year investigation take a look at what barr had to say about that the president took nowhere that in fact deprive the special counsel of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation apart from whether the actual obstructive this evidence of non