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political stage perfectly captures this moment in history. Tonight, a piece of writing that is deeply consequential or completelyirrelevant. Either an act of bravery or cowardice. More than two dozen Trump Administration officials have disavowed the anonymous oped. Its possible we havent seen
Separate. And why your reporting is ev even he didnt read the letter and approve it. In the letter friday he said it would be muellers principle conclusions. Thats not the case. On page three he didnt have a principal collusion. Its barrs that there wasnt obstruction of justice. Everybody stand by. This is cnn breaking news. I want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer in washington. After nearly two years, we now know the main conclusions of Robert Muellers russia information. A fourpage singlespaced summary was released by the Attorney General of the United States, bill barr. Part of the report reading and im quoting now. The investigation did not kid not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or
coordinated with the russians government in its election interference activities. Rudy giuliani told us the findings were better than he expected and President Trump just responded as well. It was a complete and total exoneration.
the memo really is precooked as two different courts, and it seemed sort of commissioned to serve up the result. two points i just want to make about it. first, the first principle in the memo is we need to bottom line. mueller didn t. okay. well, if that s going to happen, why don t you order the special counsel to bottom line? he s the neutral, nonpolitical figure. instead, he served it up to political folks. second, there are just several stress points. it s like you know you take a slinky and stretch it so much that it loses all its actual form. there are points here. here s one good one, the memo concludes that don mcgahn s comments about firing mueller were ambiguous. that was we ve got to get rid of him. call me when you ve done it. there were several stress opponents like that in the memo where it seems ordered up for a preconceived result. that doesn t sound too
justice department just released this unredacted memo from former general attorney bill barr? what does this reveal? reporter: well, it s a memo from 2019, and the reason why this is even in our hands now is because judges looked at this and said, well, the reason why this memo exists is to give cover for bill barr who never intended to charge the former president with a crime despite the fact that the mueller investigators found plenty of instancen ws where there were obstructive acts and the bottom line is this. despite the theory, and this was produced by the justice department. the obstruction theory would not only be novel, but based on his own analysis, it would also be unusual because volume one of the special counsel s report is conclusive that the evidence developed was not sufficient to charge that any member of the trump campaign, including the president conspired or coordinated with representatives
somebody like trump who only reads big sharpy block letter language, which leads me to think if the counsel thought it was illegality would have been caveated and couched. it would have been explicit in bold letters. there was some history of the mcgahn counsel s office having a chief of staff who took notes. of the mcgahn counsel s office at one point sort of straining the law and telling trump that firing comey wasn t advisable. there was a history of the white house counsel s office under prior white house counsels writing things to file such as firing mueller could be viewed as obstruction of fis. as bizarro as this white house was there was at least some faint muscle memory to writing