Faith in mueller. A lot of people. That is mueller saying, curious to see if democrats will accept this conclusion since that came from mueller. On obstruction, katy, i fully understand if there is a debate and dispute over this, because this was not muellers definitive word. This was bob barrs word. This is where theyll be a fight. Again, politically the toothpaste is already out of the tube as they say. Yeah. So, you know, this isnt getting resolved in this country until november 2020. No doubt about that. I think what we can take from this is that the investigations will continue in congress, but ultimately and who knows how long it will take to potentially see the rest of this report, or what we are able to see, but ultimately this is going to go to voters in 2020 and what the president s going to do, chuck, and the Steve Bannons made this clear and anybody who followed the 2016 campaign would assume as well, hes going to use this to his advantage and the way
hes used it already in
conclusion based on attorney barr s letter, no coordination or conspiracy which was the thesis, central piece of his investigation. the other obstruction. just not as clear. hoping to get reaction for you seen. it s interesting that we understand based on my colleague kristen well ill kerr a statemeg for that. the early reaction from the legal team is it s very good for us. so you can expect essentially just to build on what hallie is saying. they are prepared to take a major victory lap here at the white house within the president s legal team. they were sort of weighing a number of different scenarios. this scenario being politically speaking the strongest one arguably for president trump. so i think you re going see that expressed. i know they had sort of thought through some early reaction, but
i mean, look, yes. i think this whole issue of, i mean, i cannot count the number of times people on all the networks said, we have significant evidence of collusion. members of congress. between the president, himself and the russians, some called it treasonous, others collusion or conspiracy with the russians, interference by the russians knowingly made by the president. all those statements were made. the special counsel, the department of justice took a contrary view. there was not collusion. the basis upon which this investigation was launched, and the conclusion was unequivocal there was none. can you maybe shed light on this for us? a question we ve been asking a lot. why did so many of those around donald trump on the question of contacts with russia lie about it if there was nothing nefarious going on? i cannot address that as the president s lawyer. it s not something we would know
vist here at msnbc and host of the beast. my reaction is the most important parts of this letter are the direct quotes from the mueller report. everything else is barr s views and conclusions, which are also significant, since he s mueller s boss but not the mueller report everyone s been waiting for. anyone in any field knows that there s plenty that could be done with characterization and conclusion. in those direct quotes there is clearly as you ve been reporting good news for the trump campaign and president trump if inn that it echo what s we knew as a clue from friday night because it ended without indictments on collusion eviction conspiracy and here we see a quote of a finding that there was not a collusion election conspiracy between the trump campaign and associates. there isn t supposed to be one. but it is obviously after a 22-month probe a significant finding. second i think where we ll see a
he did say over and over again on the campaign trail in 2016 that there was a conspiracy to keep him out of office, because he was going to work for the american public and not work for the establishment. i imagine he ll use this in the same way he used it to, or used the various other conspiracythe 2020. joe scarborough, a question not asked are him whether he would acquiesce and release the entire report as he said he would a couple days ago? yeah, well, we ll see. again, what the president says one minute doesn t actually mean much the next minute. so we ll, we ll wait and see what happens, but it is interesting. the president said a few things, in ace very brief press conference that obviously, again, just requires fact checking once. the first thing he said was that