president carry out his responsibilities to the nation while something like that is going on? if you indict the president and hide it, there is still a risk that something like that will leak out and then hang over a sitting president. robert mueller doing what he did today, he didn t have to do that. he could have issued statement. do you see should it be viewed he was sending a message to congress? i think he was. he wanted to clear the air. i think that he did feel that aging bars r barr s initial presentation of his investigations work was highly misleading. we saw that if the letters, the correspondence. is there anything illegal about being misleading? i don t think there is. no. i know a lot of people say, yeah, he legally could mislead. he can mislead. he can spin the investigation. unless he hide under oath zbhchlt right. which is why i check the
of legal counsel. under long standing department policy, a president so that was the justice department policy. those are the principals that we cooperated and we determined that we would not reach a determination about whether or not the president committed a crime. that is the office s final position and we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the president. interestingly enough, bill barr referred to the olc memo as legal opinion. we reviewed legal opinions there. he didn t technically disagree with mueller, but boy you to parse those words carefully.
today, everything is on the table. i will default to that excuse that the house would have to launch the investigation, but i think pelosi navigated this pretty good to far. let me ask it this way, is will going to be easier to defend making the decision to open an impeachment inquiry in five years or harder. i don t think we know at this moment in time. if we get more information that will be clearer. but as you just said with eric, your last guest, the idea that trump may want to lure into this back and forth, i don t know where the american people are yet at this point. what about the issue of bill
and it is clear that mueller saw it as an ironclad roadblock. that even if he found it he would not be able to say it outloud. he said it would have been uncushional. he could not do it, could not even accuse him of this. again, i get the outthere that part of what he was saying, i just didn t feel it. i got the constitutional idea of it, but i just wonder if you came out and said but for, how much would that have changed the conversation around impeachment. they re beating up on barr, look, i have looked, barr was careful in his senate testimony not to fully i think he could get out of a perjury trap.
if that were under oath i think he would have a bigger problem. is that where they exert their energy? if they go after barr, it is simple lay vehicle to get to the president and what doors that could open. i think the problem with barr is maybe he did not perjer himself, but he did lie and he is not operating at an attorney general, he is operating at the president s attorney, which is a mistake for the country. can the president be prosecuted? the department of justice said no. mueller said no, bill barr apparently he thinks so. we ll talk to a constitutional expert about it. that is next. t. that is next hey there people eligible for medicare.