government as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets, schools, hospitals, humanitarian missions and civilian sites for bombing. we have a responsibility to protect human rights. how do you respond, sir? this is nothing new. there have been elements in the democratic party by i ve been combating them since the 1980s who don t really have an understanding of israel s history or of the history of the middle east conflict. i think that the latest attempt is to try to deny israel the j-dems. i don t think the opponents of israel have noticed this is a device designed to make sure a bomb doesn t hit the wrong target. so if you re going to complain that israel s bombing is imprecise, to deprive israel of the very mechanisms it needs to make hire that the bombs don t hit the wrong make sure that
than mere avoidance of criminality, shouldn t we? absolutely. the need to act in an ethical manner is not just a moral one, but when people act unethically, it also exposes them to compromise, particularly in dealing with foreign powers. that true? true. the long-running issue the president refuses to submit to an interview was addressed along with the president s insufficient written answers. and in fact you did go with written questions after about nine months, sir. and the president responded to those, and you have some hard language for what you thought of those responses. what did you think of the president s written responses, mr. mueller? certainly not as useful as the interview would be. in fact, you pointed out, and by my count, there were more than 30 times when the president said he didn t recall, he didn t remember, no independent recollection, no current recollection. and i take it by your answer that it wasn t as helpful. that s why you used words like incom
and in fact you did go with written questions after about nine months, sir. and the president responded to those, and you have some hard language for what you thought of those responses. what did you think of the preside president s written responses, mr. mueller? certainly not as useful as the interview would be. in fact, you pointed out, and by my count, there were more than 30 times when the president said he didn t recall, he didn t remember, no independent recollection, no current recollection. and i take it by your answer that it wasn t as helpful. that s why you used words like incomplete, imprecise, inadequate, instuff. that a fair summary of what you thought of those written answers? that is a fair summary. by the way, the president didn t ever claim the 5th amendment, did he? i m not going to talk to that. from what i can tell, sir, at one point it was vital, and at another point it wasn t vital. and my question to you is why did it stop being veitle? and i can
wasn t as helpful. that s why you used words like incomplete, imprecise, inadequate, insufficient. is that a fair summary of what you thought of those written answers? that is a fair summary. and i presume that comes from the report. and yet, sir, and i ask this respectfully. by the way, the president didn t ever claim the fifth amendment, did he? i am not going to talk to that. all right. i want to know what were you going to ask respectively. it sounds like you think mueller that you were second-guessing mueller s decision not to subpoena the president. you better believe i am. i think it was a mistake, but i think it s important what he said. what he said was that they were balancing. in fact, he did this with his hands. and what he was trying to convey is that they were building what he called in the report significant and substantial evidence of the president s intent to obstruct justice. he was balancing what they already had with the delay required to possibly get mo
about nine months. and you have some hard language for what you thought of those responses. what did you think of those responses, mr. mueller? certainly not as useful as the interview would be. you pointed out and by my count there were more than 30 times where the president said he didn t recall, he didn t remember, no independent correction, no current recollection. i take it by your answer it wasn t as helpful, that s why you used words like incomplete, imprecise, inadequate. is that a fair summary of what you thought of those answers. that is a fair summary. i presume that comes from the report. the president didn t ever claim the 5th amendment, did he? i m not going to talk to that. from what i can tell, sir, at one point it was vital and another another point it wasn t vital. my question to you is, why did it stop being vital. one is that someone told you couldn t do it. but no one told you couldn t subpoena the president, right?