collusion, or even says further and says, we exonerate the president. i don t know if he can do that. but do you trust the outcome of whatever this is, whatever it says? laura: again, john, mueller, they built up his professionalism and reputation and a lot of us conservatives were concerned about the makeup of his prosecutorial team. and the democrats said you couldn t question bob mueller. but now you can t trust the report when it comes out. where does this leave us today in the public fear, looking at the prosecutorial priorities of this country, the justice department? how did this period affect the integrity or the trust, i would say, that people have in institutions like the american media? laura, i can tell you, practicing in this area, that there is a lack of confidence. confidence has been shattered. but mueller has been held up as a deity. everyone saying, let s wait for
a deity. everyone saying, let s wait for the mueller report. and i have never said it s a witch-hunt. i think it was a legitimate investigation. but what everybody s forgetting is he s a prosecutor. he s not judge, jury and execution. and the devil s in the details. we really don t know what the specifics are. but i think the president is entitled to have his representatives read it and prepare a response, because prosecutors are advocates. they re not the be-all and end-all. and furthermore, can i say one other thing where i ve gotten some pushback from some of my good friends who are more on the left? i ve said that during the course of this period, the president is entitled to the presumption of the innocence. and people come back and say, that s only in a courtroom. but this is the presidency. and an investigation like this is a cloud over any president. and like any citizen, he s not above the law, but he s not
the attorney general tells the hill is anything that he basically countermanded. anything this special counsel wanted to do that the justice department blocked. but barr has said he wants to be much more forthcoming than that. exactly what he ll tell the public and the hill about what s in the report, we re going to have to wait a long time to find that out. that s for sure. kristen, over at the white house, we know we ll see the president later on this afternoon. he may or may not have more to add to what he has said over the last 24 hours about this investigation. and his desire, he says, to have people see it. it was a big headline yesterday, hallie, when president trump said that, that he does want this to be made public once the report has been turned over to the attorney general. just to set the scene here at the white house, just to underscore everything that pete is saying, the waiting game has reached a fever pitch here. everyone saying, you know, could be any day now. tha
to use the colors of the flag. you try to use a meal that has some french themes. you try to sean, you are not invited. sean: i am wearing jeans. the headlines today were armchair fast and he says head takes on melania s hat. hollywood reporter. his melania trump channeling celine dion, beyonce? you know what. you know that everyone saying. everyone that i ve talked to is saying what a beautiful hat. she looks gorgeous. she had the last laugh. sean: before you released your book coming were kind enough to give me a copy, and i had a chance to go over the book and read it. i did write a blurb. along with tim tebow. you have pretty good friends, high-ranking friends in your life. i said in very few public figurs would be this real. you talk openly about your christian faith.
country that hates this bill, just as we have a majority of this country that hates this the president, a majority of the country that wants a democratic congress. they re not the majority that has any influence in either the creation of policy or in republicans electoral calculations. and not only that josh. one of the remarkable things watching all of these different legislative attempts, it s almost been like a political science experiment. because there s so much bizarre behavior. i mean, interest groups carry a lot of sway on capitol hill. they really carry a lot of sway on these sorts of issues. health care, for instance. here you have everyone, like everyone from like the most sort of benign march of dimes to like lefties like the nurses unions to very conservative organizations like ahip, the american medical association. everyone saying, don t do this, don t do this. and the republicans still trying to do it. well, but they failed. and i think or they appear to have fai