Based on doj guidelines, that doesn t mean that the congress doesn t have the right to impeach. in fact, that is exactly where it should be taking place. congresswoman jackie speier, thank you for your time. really appreciate it. thank you, jake. let s chew over this with our experts. amanda, let me start with you. so one of the questions here is about the meeting that president trump had with lewandowski when he told him to tell jeff session, then attorney general, that to instruct sessions to tell the public that mueller s investigation is unfair, and that he s going to tell mueller to stop looking at things that happened in the past and instead look at the future. lewandowski said he didn t think the message was illegal but he didn t deliver the message. he just didn t deliver it because he was on vacation. yeah. somehow it just got lost in the mail. listen, it is clear from the mueller report he was a willing agent of obstruction, attempted obstruction because they didn t o
Think. if that happened, that would be a bombshell. he said, of course, if it weren t for the doj guidelines, i would have indict him. we don t think he will say that. i do think what s happening really is that she s stuck in this loop and people are very frustrated that there hasn t been more of an investigation and i know people have been basically waiting for mueller and the fact that it s taken so long and he had to be subpoenaed to get mueller is adding to the frustration. but i would say we should differentiate these two votes. there are a lot of pretty progressive people who think that you should have the inquiry first and then the impeachment vote. yesterday s vote was just about impeachment itself. one 2020 candidate thinks the president s tweet on sunday and last night are groinds for impeachment. tom steyer sadie have one question. were aren t racism and inciting
Interference activities. on obstruction, mueller says he did not set out to indict the president because of his belief that doing so would go against doj guidelines but did list the obstruction in detail in the report. any action could be taken up by the congress while the president is in office or by the courts after his term is complete. catherine herridge reporting live. so a delay in the testimony, huh? shep, earlier today multiple forces told fox news that his testimony would likely be put off because there was a break down in negotiations. two hours later, the democrats on the house committee put out a brief statement that it would go ahead as planned. it s very important that the american people have the opportunity to hear from robert mueller, that he have the opportunity to convey to the american people all the evidence that he collected, all which described the misconduct of the president and he do that in a
You have members trying to encourage pro impeachment stances, it s getting more serious. you re having conversations on capitol hill, too, donny. tell us about them. let me talk about my point of view as far as this. i talked about it a lot. i think there s a simple solution, not binary choice of impeach or not impeach, a third land, branding lane. take the impeachment word away. the impeachment word ends in the senate. once again you basically, i think the democrats should own trump as a criminal and say basically we know that mueller found him guilty of obstruction and criminal act. he couldn t act because of doj guidelines, unindicted co-conspirator in new york. we re going to continue with trump criminal investigations. keep saying those word. brand it. you will eventually get to impeachment when public opinion is in your favor and when you think i don t think you ll ever get to this point with 20 senators. to me the answer is stop making an argument about impeachment. put th
But that s not to excuse it. why couldn t he just say because of the doj guidelines, mueller was not able to go down that road? that s the question. look, i think he should have said it the other way. would not have been misleading. because at the him to attorney general made that statement in his press conference, he had all the information and the rest of us in the public trying to understand what are the special counsel had found were at an entire information disadvantage. we didn t know and so of course there were going to be misunderstandings when the attorney general framed it that way. isn t that the whole point? and to i think mueller should have said something earlier, if not the same day the report came out shortly after and he and barr should have been oen the same pauj.