make a determination on obstruction of justice. but barr did, declaring in his summary that the president did not obstruct. so, you accepted the report as the evidence? yes. you did not question or look at the underlying evidence that supports the conclusions in the report? no. as the attorney general of the united states, you run the united states department of justice. if in any u.s. attorney s office around the country, the head of that office, when being asked to make a critical decision about, in this case, the person who holds the highest office in the land, and whether or not that person committed a crime, would you accept them recommending a charging decision to you if they had not reviewed the evidence? well, that s a question for bob mueller. reporter: the president says he s exonerated, based on barr s conclusions. but barr insists he did not clear the president. no, i didn t exonerate. reporter: republicans pushed barr on why mueller didn t make his own de
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believe that barr distorted the mueller report in his four-page letter today. but i think anyone who has relied on cliff notes in high school tells you there is a big difference between the summary and actual document. so i do think the mueller report needs to come out and the democrats are well-founded in seeking that. when you go to the next layer down, which is the underlying fbi reports and evidence, that may be a bridge too far. i m not sure what basis there is. and the farther you go, the more you run into complicated problems with grand jury secrecy and executive privilege. so i m not sure that s worth the fight. what s the one thing that stands out most to you from what we have learned so far, based on barr s conclusions. the obstruction of justice conclusion surprised me. look, mueller found not enough evidence. we for beyond a reasonable doubt. talking about a criminal standard. not enough evidence for coordination or conspiracy charges. he clearly found more evidence o
prosecute certain individuals, there is a lot of precedent for not losing those declaration decisions. of course, if it involves the president or any potential crimes by the president, there will be a lot of pressure on barr and obviously there is huge public interest in him releasing that information at least to congress. i don t think he will sit there and tweet it out. he will have to make a decision of what to redact in terms of what s classified and proper to share. but i think there the a lot of institutional weight inside the justice department towards being as transparent as possible. and he s going to face a lot of internal pressure from his colleagues. but also pressure from the most important calling of all, donald trump. so he s going to have to weighing his decision very carefully go yeah. i was going to say when you think how much donald trump the president has railed on jeff session for recusing himself, even mocking him recently at the cpac conference, i would have neve
to 1993 under president george h.w. bush. he s medially going to face intense scrutiny from two democrat-controlled house committees, judiciary and intelligence, who are preparing broad investigations. that program almost down party lines. we saw similar pattern we saw the procedural vote were three democrats cross over. that is kyrsten sinema of arizona, joe manchin of us regina, doug jones of alabama. one republican objection, rand paul. but the main objection came from democrats that barr would not remain independent taking control over the special counsel s rush investigation. in a repeated questioning s coming made clear he would not stand in the way of letting it run its course and he planned to make public as much of its findings as possible. but he stopped short of promising you would be released in its entirety, and that was a sticking point angering democrats who worried that he might try and suppress critical portions related to the president and the findings, based on barr
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