and he doesn t want the president exonerated because and you have witnesses who can say this man is innocent and brick him to the stand, have him exonerate the guy. no testimony for exical puatory witnesses. if you actually allow for the ability to call witnesses in this trial, then majority rules. so you won t get the hunter bidens. or he says no, no, thank you. him in possible political trouble. obstruction of congress.
recommending any further indictments according to a senior justice department official. i ve seen that reported in a a number of places. what are you going to say to people who say the bar was whether there were chargeable, criminal acts of conspiracy with the russian conspiracy to sabotage the election. air go this is totally exical puatory for the president. you talk about a criminal indictment, the bar is very high. it s beyond a reasonable doubt. you can look at the evidence and can conclude while there may not be ea criminal charge, there may be other avenues of accountabili accountability to pursue. that s how you re thinking about it going forward? first of all i d like to see what the underlying basis is and i would like to see what kind of
reported, about no more indictments. robert mueller is not recommending any further indictments according to a senior justice department official. i ve seen that reported in a a number of places. what are you going to say to people who say the bar was whether there were chargeable, criminal acts of conspiracy with the russian conspiracy to sabotage the election. air go this is totally exical puatory for the president. you talk about a criminal indictment, the bar is very high. it s beyond a reasonable doubt. you can look at the evidence and can conclude while there may not be ea criminal charge, there mao be other avenues of accountability to pursue. that s how you re thinking about it going forward?
and so i could imagine some pretty substantial disclosures happening relatively quickly that could either be very exical puatory with respect to the president, ie we have found no evidence the president engaged in any coordination with the russians, right? or could be completely devastating with respect to the president. the other end of the spectrum is we found the president obstructed justice cerealy and we re not bringing a case against him because doj policy bars indictment of the president of the united states. so you could imagine the principal findings being very dramatic in one direction or another and i can t imagine why they wouldn t come out relatively quickly. thank you for spending time with us. we have much more on this night when the mueller report has been transmitted to the department of justice.
narrative arc of this story. i think there s a layer of transparency that everyone is skating over but i think is nilnils initially very important. everyone is assuming that when bill barr says he intends to release the principal conclusions as early as this weekend, that he just means here s how many people we indicted, here s the cases we brought, etc. i m not sure why people should assume that. to me that sentence read like maybe th maybe prepared an executive summary that identifies the principal conclusions at a high level of altitude without getting into some of the more detailed material and he s going to review that. i m just making this up. and so i could imagine some pretty substantial disclosures happening relatively quickly that could either be very exical