Captioning performed by vitac although your report states collusion is not a specific offense and you have said this this morning, or a term of art in federal criminal law, conspiracy is in the colloquial context are collusion and conspiracy essentially synonymous terms . You are going to have to rethat for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in the federal criminal law, conspiracy is. Yes. In the colloquial context no public context collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If not on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote in as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy 18 usc you said at your may 29 press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different from what your report states. What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it is accurate. Let me just clarify. You stated that you had stay
Coming up, your calls and reaction on Robert Muellers testimony before the house judiciary and house Intelligence Committees yesterday. Washington journal is next. Did you actually totally exonerate the president . No. Your report states a did not exonerate the president. It does. Your investigation actually found multiple asked by the president capable of exerting undue influence over Law Enforcement investigations, including the obstruction and russian investigations. Correct. Can you give me an example other than donald trump where an investigated person was not exonerated because innocence was not conclusively determined . I cannot. I will tell you why, it doesnt exist. Host good morning. We will begin today with your reaction to Robert Muellers testimony yesterday. The former special counsel sitting and fielding questions for nearly seven hours with lawmakers questioning, what stood out to you . Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. Join us on
[indiscernible] gavel. Rep. Nadler the judiciary. Ommittee will come to order without objects in the chair is authorized to the great recesses of the committee at any time, we welcome everyone to the hearing on oversight of the report in the investigation into russia interference in the 2016 president ial election. I will now recognize myself for a brief Opening Statement. Director mueller, thank you for being here. I want to say a few words about our themes today, responsibility, integrity, and accountability. Your career is a model of responsibility. You are a decorated marine officer, awarded a purple heart and a bronze star for valor in vietnam. You served in senior roles at the department of justice and the beaded aftermath of 9 11 as director of the fbi. Two years ago you return to Public Service to lead the investigation into russia interference in the 2016 elections. You conducted that investigation with remarkable integrity. 22 months you never commented in public about your w
Captioning performed by vitac although your report states collusion is not a specific offense and you have said this this morning, or a term of art in federal criminal law, conspiracy is in the colloquial context are collusion and conspiracy essentially synonymous terms . You are going to have to rethat for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in the federal criminal law, conspiracy is. Yes. In the colloquial context no public context collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If not on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote in as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy 18 usc you said at your may 29 press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different from what your report states. What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it is accurate. Let me just clarify. You stated that you had stay
Mueller will testify under oatht for at lea five hours day. President trump repeatedly called the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. Today Robert Mueller, the lifelong republican and now a private citizen wil have his say and the consequences could be enormous. Well be followinghis all throughout the day and standing by to help us is our team correspondents and analysts. I am going to start out with kasie hunt on the hill for us. A hisric day, t years in the making savannah. Well see Robert Mueller in a few short mutes here sit down with the House Judiciary Committee thats going to begin at 8 30. Thats the larger of the two committees. There are 41 members on theig intellce committee. Each one is going to get about five minutes to speak. This is going to focus on alged obstruction, volume two of the Mueller Report. You will see all of those instances laid out and the report during the course of the hearing then well have a little bit of a break and the intelligence will take over. The