general barr is finally willing to get to the bottom of it. laura: there s something that s so hilarious about how unaffected he is. he s batting it away. doesn t get emotional or dramatic about it. he was also asked about the mueller report obstruction decision itself, let s watch. were you surprised when he came back with no recommendation on that obstruction charge? y does that surprise you? yes, that surprised me. how come. because the function of a prosecutor is to make a call one way or the other. he gave an explanation for it and it s pretty much reflected in the report. you re okay with him testifying. absolutely. he was himself surprised that there was no obstruction recommendation. he doesn t care, if mueller can testify, he can testify.
we know because i think what we know is right on the cusp, if mueller has more evidence than that that can put it over the edge, i think he would charge it and then hand it off to someone, not let someone else charge it. hey, kim, the democrats in the house certainly have become all about investigations. as you cover the place, and as you learn what you learn, is there anything, any committee perhaps that we are not focusing on, that we should be focused on as this week gives way to next? i think we should be focused on all of them. i think one thing i m looking at certainly is ways and means. the decision that the chairman there, richard neal, will make about whether and when he will pursue president trump s tax returns, that will probably lead to a protracted legal fight. but it certainly will cause this white house to push back. i think the investigations, the
of law is extremely important, not just for comey, but for all of us. and comey warned us about getting numb on the rule of attack on the rule of law. president is interested in just going after hillary clinton s e-mails once again, quite a contrast there between comey s approach and the republican leadership on the committees. with regards, though, to comey s comments about robert mueller, that if mueller were fired, that it wouldn t derail the investigations, or would the impact in your view be more significant? i think he s got a point because mr. mueller has farmed out a lot of the work to places that can t be touched, the southern district of new york, they have got a lot of information he s already given to them, they re already acting on it. if he were to be fired, there are other avenues that have been opened and institutions that are working forward on this issue and investigation will not stop and i think that mr. trump is still will still be in jeopardy for what he s d
family members and president trump it would be disturbing to the white house if mueller says anything along the lines of cohen offered substantial assistance in the russia inclusion investigation. thank you, ken. our national security reporter who will be getting no sleep this evening. to bring in former democratic congresswoman pb elizabeth holtzman who voted to impeach president nicken. the author of the case for impeaching trump. she will join me again tonight at 8:00 p.m. elizabeth what are you will go for as documents come out? what is the thing we should think about. of course we would love to know a lot. yes. but as ken just said, the special prosecutor has an ongoing investigation. we still have several witnesses whose cooperation is not clear, who have been jousting with the special prosecutor. let s think about roger stone and mr. coursey. right. so information that could somehow affect their cases,
out there, lasix sasquatch rumors. anytime the word collusion appears people get breathless speculation about it but i don t think we can see whether there is any evidence of that year. this is what we are talking about with sasquatch rumors, that, black lines you re looking at redaction s we don t know what special counsel has on those. charlie kerr, conservative commentator and activist tweeted that if mueller truly had something he wouldn t release these findings about flynn and recommended no jail time. he is desperate and wants to make an example out of flynn, he wants to show the main people investigated that if they comply they won t go to jail. i don t know that is true or not and you don t know until you see behind the reductions but here is the part that was most telling all-americans can agree with. page 5 of the first document the line reads however, the government leaders should be held to the highest standard.