there was no evidence and the president and bar have been saying no evidence. i m completely exoneratedexoner. on the russia situation there was insufficient evidence to charge a crime. didn t mean there wasn t ever going to be enough evidence or some evidence. i think that s important too. mueller said a president cannot be charged with a federal crime in office even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that too is prohibited. there s been so dispute as to whether the 1973 opinion and the 2000 office of legal counsel memo and all of that leads to it being unconstitutional. robert mueller seems to have made the determination it was. your thoughts? i don t think it s unconstitutional. the framers when they discussed the impeachment power so the president could be impeached,
committees that have different things going on. mueller said you will not get anything out of me that s not in the report. what do you think happens next in. i think the mueller said i ve given you evidence. mueller said my report sets it out. you have to explain it to the american people. he believes, i think, that he has shown ten instances of obstruction of justice in the report. it s for congress to explain that to the american people. why did mueller give this press conference. he gave it to point the american people to the two things he s talked about. no exoneration and that it s really up to congress. congress has been stalling saying we need more information. we need to talk to mueller. we need the underlying investigation. we need the unredacted report. mueller is saying you don t. i gave you 400 pages of evidence. now do your work. i do think there s some little areas that have not been
special counsel well former special counsel mueller and what he had to say. he indicated if he saw any evidence that the president was innocent, he would have let us know. if he had any evidence that the president was not guilty, he would have let us know but he didn t. he didn t. i think that was very, very important. i have the deepest respect for him and thank him and his team for the presentation of facts that will further lead us to help us in the congress, in the courts. this is a very valuable contribution. i m gravely disappointed in the justice department for their attitude, misrepresentation of the mueller report to begin with. they are hiding behind something that you could never find in the constitution that the president is above the law and their misrepresentations even under
russia s interference and trump and those around him welcomed russia s support and throughout the investigation trump sought to obstruct justice and undermine mueller and the investigation over and over again. all right. msnbc kelly o donnell joins us from capitol hill. nobody speaking in as clear english as a guy like me would like today. everybody you got to read between the lines. you have to figure out what they are saying. tell me what you are hearing about efforts to try to get mueller to testify despite what you heard this morning. reporter: the dye has not fully been cast. on capitol hill once robert mueller becomes a private citizen that could change the equation where they could continue to negotiate or compel him by subpoena if they believe that s possible in number of lawmakers are saying they still want him to come to the capitol and speak even if it s within the lies of the report and
public conversation happening. thanks very much. as you get more reaction please let us know. we ll bring you right back. mueller s words have been at odds with attorney general william barr from when the attorney general released his own four page principled conclusions until today. in those conclusions, bar made the decision to clear the president of obstruction. this is really important. despite the special counsel s inconclusive results. in conclusive and conclusive are two different things. five days after that conclusion mueller wrote a report saying the summary letter to the department sent to congress didn t fully captured context, nature and substance of this office s work and conclusions. wow. i wonder if everybody in america saw that part. just hours after today s press conference, mueller s office provided this hand out that