angered by his sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency. the bottom line was that bob mueller identified some episodes. he did not reach a conclusion. he wasn t sborexonerating the president, but he wasn t finding a crime either. it was my prerogative as attorney general to make that decision. a big story and we turn to two experts. former federal prosecutor, john flannery and matt miller, who worked at the justice department under eric holder. good evening, folks. evening. good evening. mr. flannery, what does this story mean to you? well, i guess trump s of the view that, hey, twice this guy s taken care of me. he killed the mueller report and then he s investigating the investigation. but what he should have studied was that great american philosop philosopher, clint eastwood who said a man ought to know his limitations. and inc. barr looked at this and thought, that stone wall is
conclusion was he wasn t exonerating the president, but he wasn t finding a crime either. i m just trying to state the bottom line. i was just trying to state the bottom line. and also added another bottom line, which was saying that rod rosenstein and i have determined that because there was no underlying crime, he could not have obstructed justice. when you read the report, there are certain in every instance of possible obstruction, the mueller team laid out evidence for, evidence against. there were a couple of incidents, one involving corey lewandowski, one involving don mcgahn about related to a new york times story that he wanted mcgahn to refute and with corey lewandowski, he wanted to play some role in firing jeff sessions, reporting that we had done corey lewandowski, private citizen, reporting that the times had done a couple of months earlier, that had found some similar instances. in those cases, in the mueller report and again, i still wonder how much of
issue and he his conclusion is he wasn t exonerating the president, but he wasn t finding a crime either. our team is here with this story and others we ll bring you this hour. a lot to get to. but, let s stick with this. pete williams in washington, robert costa national political reporter for the washington post. and matt miller, former justice department spokesperson and msnbc analyst. pete, to you first. barr talked about the legal analysis in the mueller report and i want to share more of what he said. we didn t agree with the legal analysis, a lot of the legal analysis of the report. it did not reflect the views of the department, it was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers. correct me if i m wrong, barr told congress last month that he