because it s really we don t have the information on the mueller report but the report is gigantic. it s been a sword hanging over donald trump that s what you said for awhile. you said this is a sword hanging over trump s head. yeah, and he s been under it s like an asterisks president until this report came out. is he legit? if he can escape collusion and say the no collusion charge gives him fresh life but what history will show is politically speaking, the democrats effectively used the investigation as a weapon to win congress. they this report this idea being constantly under investigation in the name of bob mueller and look at this is pressure on donald trump. i don t know how he s been able to sleep. he had to worry about don junior, had to worry about jared kushner and how close this is getting to him. if it turns outlooks like it s a good night for donald trump junior and jared kushner,
ed: and surveilled his campaign. surveilled his campaign and employed a human asset to spy on a political campaign and bob mueller could not vindicate one single collusion charge. how do we know that? he has never charged one single person with a conspiracy charge related to this russian collusion scandal laid out in the dossier. that s the big story i can t say this enough. katie: can you talk about the political consequences of this? because, clearly, the department of justice and the fbi were used as a political weapon for political purposes against a political campaign that they opposed. catherine herridge reported yesterday that the white house counsel under obama may have been briefed what was going on with the fisa applications which apparently some people that the doj were, you know, saying look, there may be a biased source here. we probably shouldn t move forward with this. is this just an overall picture of what happens when the federal government is used as a political we
. neither congress nor the public know what s in the mueller report, yet we do know that it doesn t call for any new indictments. and that s been enough for many republicans to clear the president entirely of the collusion charge while casting the investigation as a waste of taxpayer money. joining me now to spin things around, don callaway on the left and renah shaw on the right. you re a republican, do you think the celebration of some in your party on the right is premature? it certainly is. we don t know what s in the report. what is this about? at this moment republicans are saying there s no collusion, this was a waste of taxpayer money but they don t know what the facts are. this is an investigative report. this is not a legal report. so we need to see what s there and read the black and white.
as time rolls through, we may see that none of that is true but right now, it s advantage trump and a lot of people don t want to hear that but there is no wonder they are celebrating. you are the presidential historian, douglas. the investigation, the results will be discussed for generations. how significant do you think this day will be in american history? i don t know this day is yet because it s really we don t have the information on the mueller report but the report is gigantic. it s been a sword hanging over donald trump that s what you said for awhile. you said this is a sword hanging over trump s head. yeah, and he s been under it s like an asterisks president until this report came out. is he legit? if he can escape collusion and say the no collusion charge gives him fresh life but what history will show is politically
counsel for not finding collusion so far in their investigation as it relates to manafort. they say they talk about his work for political candidates. they say he worked hard and proud of what he achieved. they point out after the election. they make another footnote calling attention to the fact there has been no collusion charge in this case. they say the special counsel s strategy in bringing charges had