i think with good reason to publicize it. we had an inquiry were justice department rules and constitutional interpretation left an actual judgment of guilt off the table. all that was left to say is we couldn t exonerate. if you look carefully including at the reported is pretty clear the conduct mueller has found is obstruction any day of the week, any court in the land, any other person except the president. finally, this attack on mueller s integrity, fantasyland, nobody knows mueller credits the notion that he is somehow a partisan. a lot of republicans don t like donald trump. its exoneration is the standard that would be news to the 3 other doj officials i ve spoken to in the last 24 hours to all say this is novel at best and
to house judiciary committee. hicks is very important. she was at the president s side through the campaign and at the white house until she left a year ago, and she didn t leave as persona non grata. since then, she s accompanied president trump to rallies. she s still close to the president. hicks is just one of 81 family friends, business associated, entities of trump s that received letters from the powerful chairman of the house judiciary committee. the committee with the power to lead impeachment proceedings. so far, only eight people have agreed to cooperate. trump s white house is not on the list of cooperators. the white house reportedly ignoring more than a dunz requests for document from the committees. and yet today, the president for the first time publicly said this. will we have a right to see the mueller report? i don t mind. frankly, i told the house, if you want, let them see it. let it come out. let people see it. okay, so when it comes to the report, he s sayi
see it, which sounds good and transparent. the problem is that the president showed his true colors on this issue earlier this week when he tweeted, quote, on the recent nonbinding vote, 420-0, in congress about releasing the mueller report, i told leadership to let all republicans vote for transparency. makes us all look good and doesn t matter. play along with the game. play along with the game. because actions speak louder than the president s words today saying let them see it. sources tell cnn white house lawyers expect to see mueller s russia findings before congress and the public so they can claim executive privilege and prevent people from seeing anything trump doesn t want us to see. that is a far cry from transparency. family brown is outfront live outside the white house. the president wants to say he s fine with everybody seeing the mueller report, but that is a long way from the reality of actually having it released. it certainly is, erin. the president is changing h
he won t sit down even though he s been given the questions that investigators want to ask with the mueller team while others have gone under oath, and i don t believe him because he has put in place two people to be attorney general who auditioned for the job by saying they don t believe in the legitimacy of the mueller investigation. but erin, he s outnumbered. there s a majority in the house of representatives who will ask for this report and there s pres dnls in the judiciary that will require him to turn it over. okay, so you believe we ll get it, although it is obviously a fair point, right? ardless of how many times we see him saying i want to sit down with mueller. he never did. okay. cnn has confirmed that hope hicks, the former white house communications director and as you know, a trump insider, confidante, she plans to comply with your judiciary committee s request for documents related to the probe into president trump. now, among the many reasons she s important, not ju
when the president says put the mueller report out, obviously, that goes against a lot of the other things he s been saying and doing and an interview with mueller that he never did when he said he wanted to. putting that all aside, what is his bet here? is it a bet on bill barr? it s a really interesting question that he is potentially betting on there s one of two things. one, the bet is he s betting on bill barr, the attorney general, saying no, don t release it. this is exactly what he did with speaking with mueller s team. he said i would love to do it, but then my lawyers are telling me not to. and sort of relying on legal representation. the other is a bet, or a gamble that he ll be exonerating or at least not that there will not be sufficient evidence that the public will be swayed. so you know, the one thing i would take issue with a little bit is, i actually do think this report should legally be released by the department of justice. there s a lot of precedent in civil r