the 448-page report that bears his name. i don t think he ever read the document. and the document said no collusion. they don t even talk about that. so there was no crime. they said, well, there was no crime but he obstructed. how do you obstruct? there was no crime. but it was worse than that because it was a phony crime. the crime is what they put on. reporter: mueller said his investigation didn t establish evidence to show a criminal conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia but that he couldn t exonerate president trump on obstruction of justice. he president is also frustrated by new poll numbers from fox news that shows him losing the election to joe biden and bernie sanders. in his hastily arranged question and answer session tonight, trump again went off on joe biden. if i m iran, i ll say if i can hold out, i m going to wait for sleepy joe biden instead of trump. because sleepy joe, we can make any deal we want with him. he doesn t know what s
standing by in president who appointed him. one of the ironies today is that people are saying that it s president trump that is shredding our institutions. i really see no evidence of that. from my perspective the idea of resisting a exactically elected president and throwing frgt at him, and, you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that s where the shredding of our norms and institutions is occurring. my experience with the president is we have a good professional working relationship. i don t look to tweets i don t look at them as directives or official communications with the department. it was just days ago when mueller broke silence. barr was asked about the outgoing special counsel s comments about not being able to clear the president. he said that he couldn t exonerate the president.
clear the president. he said that he couldn t exonerate the president. you looked at that evidence and you did. i mean, what s the fundamental difference between your view and his? we analyze the law and the facts and a group of us spent a lot of time doing that. and determined that both as a matter of law, many of the instances would not amount to obstruction. we didn t agree with the legal analysis. a lot of the legal analysis in the report. it did not reflect the views of the department. it was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers. and so we applied what we thought was the right law. the attorney general s now conducting what he describes as a review of the origins of the russia investigation and trump has granted his request for wide authority to de classiclassify
mueller broke his silence. barr was asked about the outgoing special counsel s comments about not being able to clear the president. he said that he couldn t exonerate the president. you looked at that evidence and you did. i mean, what s the fundamental difference between your view and his? we analyze the law and the facts and a group of us spent a lot of time doing that. and determined that both as a matter of law, many of the instances would not amount to obstruction. we didn t agree with the legal analysis. a lot of the legal analysis in the report. it did not reflect the views of the department. it was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers. and so we applied what we thought was the right law. the attorney general s now conducting what he describes as a review of the origins of the russia investigation and trump
he said that he couldn t exonerate the president. you looked at the evidence and you did. i mean what s the fundamental difference between your view and his? well, i think bob said that he was not going to engage in the analysis. he was not going to make a determination one way or the other. we analyzed the law and the facts and a group of us spent a lot of time doing that and determined that both as a matter of law, many of the instances would not amount to obstruction. as a matter of law? as a matter of law. we didn t agree with the legal analysis a lot of the legal analysis in the report. it did not reflect the views of the department, it was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers. so we applied what we thought was the right law. that s attorney general william barr speaking with cbs