the american people are begging for clarity. if it s impeachment, let s go and if not, explain yourself. you really do have distinct audiences for tomorrow s proceeding. you have the american public we all acknowledged has not read the report in all its granular details. for that audience you have to carve out the viewers on this program. they stop me on the streets and say i read the report. i hate it when people say we didn t read the report. even if you have read the report, the report is dense, full of detail, some nuanced, full of legalees. for the american public, that segment of the audience, what chuck was saying, you want discreet leading questions that give a yes or no, and part of that is to have a sound byte for lack of a better word to counteract the no col collusion,
world cup soccer pitch. you have to make calls and people will hate you for the calls you make. i m proud of the decisions i was part of being made. there s no way to get out of it without being criticized. transparency under the law is always the best path. i know i criticized bill barr a lot. i was very happy he offered transparency in the form of a report to the american people. very few people read the report. tomorrow is a chance for transparency, always good for democracy. i want to drill down a little bit on the investigation an obstruction investigation. please clean this up if i mess this up. i have chuck rosenberg as my tutor. he ll clean up me. what mueller found, what he said in his 9 minute press statement most recently, if he could have asserted they found the president hadn t committed
how can members of congress best utilize their time, with the man who knows the answers before all those questions when he comes before them tomorrow. there is no one better suited for that mission former fbi director, former attorney general, author of the book, higher loyalty, jim comey. with us at the table, chuck rosenberg, former senator, claire mccaskill and now an independent, david jolly and the prosecutor for the southern and eastern districts of new york, an embarrassment of riches in terms of experts. mr. director, how did we get here? we got here in terms of the fbi s investigation because we learned in late july of 16, from an allied ambassador who had a conversation with a trump foreign policy advisor about that advisor s conversations about the fact the russians had dirt and looking for ways to
with trump or something. or his long and close and loving relationship with me the president teens talking about. my last question to you, please describe your relationship with report mueller. it was talked about in the oval office saying you re best friends. are you best friends? no. i like the man, admire the man, not spoken to him in three years. he doesn t know my children s names, i don t know his. he is a great american. not a personal friend of mine. a great american. if there is good tomorrow the american people will learn he found troubling facts and represents what you want your children to grow up to be. thank you for spending time with us. lucky to call on you. i m glad you re in st. louis, i know claire is, too. thanks for having me. chuck, straight to you. some really important information there and i hope some members questioning robert mueller follow director comey s
before we go. our special coverage of the mueller testimony begins tomorrow at 8:30. i ll be here with my friend brian williams to take you through the whole thing. one more note, yesterday during our hour one of the favorite guests said fox news channel would not be carrying tomorrow s mueller friends. he s a good friend, nice person and corrected that on twitter. we want to make sure he corrected that statement. fox news called us and asked us to let you know they are carrying the hearings. don t watch them, though. watch me and brian. we ll be more fun, i promise. i think maybe that means the president will see it. in the meantime my thanks to chuck roczenberg, senator claire mccaskill but most of all to you for watching. i m nicolle wallace. steve kornacki starts now.