been characterized. you can see the difference, the tone of it, the focus. what a spotlight. mueller is a prosecutor. prosecutors traditionally are go, no-go. to be have a case, or do we not have a case? this was not that. it was much closer to jim comey saying, there are a lot of bad things happen, but we can t make a case and therefore we are not going to. melissa: a little comey-esque in that way. we will bring it out to the couch, guy. guy: a fascinating few minutes, watching the statement as mueller made it. much of my reaction in real time was that this is all in the report. the news at the very end, he didn t feel like he was going to testify any further. he said some nice things about william barr that i think is sort of an intriguing part of this. he chose to spotlight certain elements of the report and not mention others. which i think is perhaps telling
appropriate for him to do that but it had to be in the right setting. i think all the contacts here are very interesting and it s extremely detailed. sort of comey-esque. knowing comey and covering him the last few years, he s meticulous. the detail, shimon. the details are incredible, down to the number of people serving food, the clock in the oval office. it s just very specific. all kind of lending credibility to what he is saying here. you know, i think this whole cloud, this notion of the cloud over trump began after cnn s reporting about the daus sossie. it was significant that the fbi director chose on his own then to go ahead and brief trump about the dossier and the contents. it was probably a very difficult thing for comey to do given some of the allegations. but nonetheless, it was extremely important to do that given that he was about to