Report, mueller saying for the first time that from the out set of the probe under Justice Department rules, his office could not indict a sitting president but indicating that now its up to congress. The opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal Justice System to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doindoing and beyond Department Policy we were guided by principles of fairness. It would be unfair to potentially it would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no Court Resolution of the actual charge. That was Justice Department policy. Those were the principles under which we operated and from them we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime. That is the offices final position. We will not comment on any other con clclusions or hypotheticals about the president. Mueller made it clear he does not want to testify before congress. I hope a
the senate judiciary committee and what they ll do to him. they re going to take him to the roots to this thing and try to destroy his credibility. i watched jerry nadler. he s a good guy. i look at him sweating this thing out. this is really tough. this is a tough one. we just heard from quigley. nobody wants to cross pelosi on this. you can ask him 50 times and they re going to say i defer to the speaker. it s up to her. i should also point out, anyone who doesn t know it, you worked for a former speaker and a powerful speaker of the house. and in many ways she s better. but i ve never seen a more strong-willed, effective leader of either house than her. she s able to make people fear her, which you must do in politics, without hating her. that s genius. but people are afraid of her but nobody says a word against her ever.