us what your report actually says because i think if the american people hear what the report actually says as oppose to the spin around it, it s going to be a devastating day for the president. this is a bit of a sensitive question. do you think there may be some worry that director mueller may not be fully may not be at 100% capacity or some reason why he and his office feel that they need to have somebody there either advising him or picking up part of the witness responsibilities to answer these questions? is that possibly what s going on here. yeah, i don t know for sure. do i know this. at the end of a 22-meant investigation and a 448-page report, it s nice to have someone sitting next to you to help you. mmm-hmm. if i stumble here, neal will pick it up and, you know, carry it across the finish line. that s comforting. five hours of testimony before two committees about an investigation that long and complex, probably calls for two people. now, it is unusual. but i can
any decision-making process within the special counsel s office. that he should not talk about any charging decisions or anyone who is an uncharged third party. that, of course, would include the president and anyone related to the president who hasn t been charged. there has definitely been pushback, including from your chairman jerry nadler, that that justice department guidance is improper. what do you make of the justice department and their effort to sort of shape what s happening here? well, shape what s going to happen or continue to assist the president in his efforts to suppress the mueller report. i mean, the first thing that we had happen was just nondisclosure of the report. then we get a redacted report. then we have the justice department and the white house saying that witnesses can t appear or even when they do appear, as hope hicks did, not allowing them to answer questions and then we still have not receive the underlying evidence. we ve only received a little bit o
today also, our closest overseas ally, the united kingdom, went through its own iteration of our 2016 presidential election when the tragic comic bumbling trump-like pro-brexit character boris johnson became, believe it or not, prime minister. yeah, him. prime minister of the united kingdom, actually. and the united kingdom will now face stronger pressure than ever before to, among other things, break itself up into bits. as a result of boris johnson ascending to this job because boris johnson is hellbent on breaking the uk out of the european union, no matter what it takes, but the uk s constituent parts including scotland and northern ireland and to some extent wales, they do not want to get out of the european union. and with boris johnson now becoming prime minister, pro-independence leaders in all of those constituent parts of the uk are now starting to
and then even after that was notified to the presidential transition and the trump administration the incoming trump administration, the trump transition knew it, that flynn had been on a foreign government s payroll, nevertheless, the president picked that guy to be his top national security official. i mean, i know this will probably be a tiny footnote in the history of even just this insane year of this insane presidency, but, honestly, that deserves its own full chapter. that would be the kind of thing that would, like, destroy a whole another presidency. but in this one, it s like, oh, yeah, that happened. right. and you might remember, in mike flynn s own case, he recently traded in his sort of normal lawyers for instead a new lawyer. he instead retained a new sort of fox news regular who literally sells anti-robert mueller t-shirts on her website. that s mike flynn s new lawyer. flynn is still awaiting
so i think simple questions are important. then i think two questions that go beyond simple are important as well, which is the we know that mueller s by the book. so he wants to stick to the four corners of the report. but the book has changed because after he turned his report in, barr said, oh, you could have actually told the american people did mr. trump commit a crime. and if, you know, now that barr is saying that s permissible for mueller to have done, i think barr i think mueller should be asked that question by congress and should answer that question because barr is saying that s fair game to answer, mueller. i think that s a really, really interesting question. i would be interested in your take on this, chuck, because barr has discussed a number of things, including decisions within the special counsel s office and in the justice department about the special counsel s findings. things that the justice department just told mueller he can t talk about. right. so th