let s see. when you hear about these newly-released e-mails, though, do you think maybe we should have investigated a little bit longer? maybe the house process was a little too fast? no. what i think is what the house process was an indictment. you don t bring out or have to do as you know, in an indictment as you do in a trial. so you re confident it wasn t rushed? no, it s not. we had all the information and it was wasn t refuted. the president chose not to refute. so it was no question. we all wanted to hear. you know, in an indictment process, a defendant does not have to testify or anything of that nature. so, therefore, you decide to indict based upon what you ve heard. so we ve heard everything that we were going to hear. then you turn it over. you indict. then you turn it over for a trial. and that s where we re at now. at a trial, it should be a real trial where the senators are taking another oath of office, basically. they ve got to take an oath that they re goi
understanding how the president of the united states committed acts of felony obstruction of justice. i was one of those federal prosecutors who wrote that the president would be in handcuffs doing a perp walk as a criminal defendant but for his being a sitting president. and i think that the face and voice of robert mueller in effect the movie depicting the book, which most americans won t read, will have a gripping powerful effect on america as a whole as well as on congress. let s listen to what robert mueller said on that day a month ago when he spoke. and he talked about the constitution requiring a process other than the indictment process to accuse a sitting president. let s listen to that. first, the opinion explicitly
answer to your last question to the congressman, july 18th is going to be the beginning of a new day for america in understanding how the president of the united states committed acts of felony obstruction of justice. i was one of those federal prosecutors who wrote that the president would be in handcuffs doing a perp walk as a criminal defendant but for his being a sitting president. and i think that the face and voice of robert mueller in effect the movie depicting the book, which most americans won t read, will have a gripping powerful effect on america as a whole as well as on congress. let s listen to what robert mueller said on that day a month ago when he spoke. and he talked about the constitution requiring a process other than the indictment
us, but we don t see the president every day, and now we have people who worked with the president every single day who and again for the director of the fbi he has access to a lot of secret information and he s got concerns that there might be a credible evidence to suggest that, again, either the president is a russian asset and we need to start an investigation to make sure that s not true, which by the way is the mueller investigation that s still going on, or again, that the president, the most powerful person in the world, is incompetent to hold office. paul, why is it still going on? don t these things take time? it s called the mueller investigation. come on, paul. enough. you a federal prosecutor. come on, why are we taking so long? if mueller starts the indictment process, right, trump s people can file an injunction based upon the department of justice guidelines and policy and then take it to the courts. this should not be taking this
he has known for a long time he said publically for a long time he expected to be indicted. he didn t know when. i think he was surprised he hadn t been indicted yet. he was indicted today. mueller and his team, they were concerned that if they would have let him show up and go through the indictment process, he might have tried to flee or destroy evidence. sure. sara s great reporting shows pizza fridays were back according to his associates. he had been previewing for quite a while that this could happen. we all just wondered when was that ball going to drop. it was finally today. in the court papers, as you mentioned, the prosecutors make clear one of the reasons they wanted to keep the indictment under seal, because it was returned by the grand jury yesterday, was the destruction of evidence. it wasn t just the fleeing. the worry was he would have an