america but bob mueller better be prepared. because i can tell you, he will be cross-examined for the first time in the american people will start to see the flaws in his performance. laura: in just a moment congressman meadows will give us a couple of questions he think the special counsel, former special counsel would have to answer as opposed by republicans. professor i want to go to you. are we to believe that mueller and all of his legendary experience in all of the positions he had as a u.s. veteran, went up before the world and lied? that he will limit any comments to what he said in the report and his 9 minutes of what he said in that press conference? alan: everybody is subject to subpoenas come up but what is shocking the democratic majority is asking the special counsel to violate the justice department rules regarding prosecutors. prosecutors are bound by justice department rules and tradition
and not to charge y. that is why james comey was charged. we decided not to charge hillary clinton but what she did was careless, and that deserved criticism and the democrats are asking mueller to do the same thing commit the same sand thatc james comey committed and if he smart to submit to the subpoena and say justice department rules and the presumption of innocence and the way prosecutors operate for centuries precludes me from saying anything beyond and that we have made a decision not to charge the following people. we have made a decision not to charge. we have made decisions to charge the following people. and i will answer no further questions and if you insist you can take me to court. and the courts will back mueller. what they would do is criticize mueller if he went beyond that statement.
conference about the report, if you listen she would have heard attorney general barr say i look at the report and as the attorney general, i declined to prosecute anyone for obstruction of justice here. that means under traditional justice department rules, the case is closed. the nation s top prosecutor has said we aren t bringing charges. it would be the height of irresponsibility and worrisome about tyrannical power if the next president comes into office and says i m going to overrule, reopen all the criminal case is particularly political opponents and enemies that were closed and have a whole new look at it and start the whole prosecutorial process over again. 50% agreement with john, i don t think kamala harris should be talking about who she s going to prosecute but the big disagreement, it s 100% clear from the mueller report he did find obstruction.
dean. john, welcome to the program. good evening. so, barr says that mueller could have reached a decision, but mueller says justice department rules meant he couldn t. so help me understand this. why couldn t mueller have said, you know, it is my view the president committed obstruction, but we can t indict him. he theoretically could have said that, but if you read the opinion closely, which i just did, when not distracted by the warriors in toronto, it s very clear that that opinion says you can t burden the president, and to indict is a burden. to have a sealed indictment is a burden. and the other thing it says is you can t tarnish the president. so it s a very broad opinion as to whether a prosecutor can do and you can investigate and put the evidence away. you just can t burden or tarnish the presidency. so i was watching yesterday and i actually emailed some of my colleagues when i said, you
conclusion, the opinion says you cannot indict a president while he s in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. discuss now with mr. john dean. john, welcome to the program. good evening. so, barr says that mueller could have reached a decision, but mueller says justice department rules meant he couldn t. so help me understand this. why couldn t mueller have said, you know, it is my view the president committed obstruction, but we can t indict him. he theoretically could have said that, but if you read the opinion closely, which i just did, when not distracted by the warriors in toronto, it s very clear that that opinion says you can t burden the presidency. and to indict is a burden. to have a sealed indictment is a burden. and the other thing it says is