Necessity for the entire Mueller Report to be revealed. It needs to be a transparent process. 80 of the American Public wants this to happen, including republicans. The u. S. House of representatives unanimously passed a resolution calling for the report to be released in its entirety. All right. Weve just lost our connection with denny heck, but a very Important Development unfolding right now. Wement we want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington. Only moments ago President Trump reacted to the summary of Robert Muellers findings, claiming he was totally exonerated, calling it an illegal takedown, the entire russia investigation that failed. Thats from the president of the United States. Robert mueller did not find that President Trump, his campaign, or his associates conspired with russia according the Attorney General, william barr. Barr also says mueller did not have enough evidence to
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new york state assistant attorney general and former senior investigative council for the house oversight and reform committee and former u.s. attorney in georgia and partner in a law firm. let s talk about the law, guys. let s go down the line here and michael, i will start with you. is it legal for the doj or the white house to block the whistle-blower s information from getting to congress? i think that s going to be a tough road for them to go down. you ve got to realize that apparently there was some determination made that there was some urgency with the report, and that means that it needs to be shared with congress. and so we ll see if in fact that information is put out. this administration has used to their full advantage claims of executive privilege. last week we had testimony about conversations with a candidate that was cast in terms of executive privilege. that s what they are trying to do here. they have done that to some success in all candor because
this is clearly a wish list, but if he wasn t president, would you have charmed him, would you consider a sealed indictment? on russian interference the main topic of this report, can he pierce the partisan bubble on this grave, clear and present danger. it will happen in 2016, it will happen again in 2020. can mueller pierce that bubble and get the president to act definitively on this? let s go down the line once again and garret, i ll start with you. if you could ask mueller one question, what would that be? that s the question dana raises which is did you intend for congress to pick this up. and i think he sort of danced around answering that but i think that s the most important message congress needs to hear. i like that question too but he s not going to answer. i would like a simple question along the lines jeffrey said, which is did your investigation find evidence of obstruction of justice by the president. followl followed up by.
that has been resolved in an ambiguous way in this report, frankly, because under circumstances that are frankly unclear, mueller turned that question over to his superior in the department of justice. it does not appear he concluded one way or the other about whether the president obstructed justice. the attorney general did conclude that there was no obstruction of justice. as he said in this letter, it did not ab solve hsolve him of . that s certainly worthy of further investigation. very important, indeed. our political contributors are here. let s go down the line and get your reaction. it s pretty stunning, all these developments. i think there s a lot of democrats that wrote checks about campaign collusion that robert mueller did not cash. so i have questions for the democrats and the trump campaign. for the democrats, namely people like adam schiff and senator
people here and at home hope it is not the only thing to come out of the meeting, that photo up, the handshake but they are looking for a real concrete path to denuclearization. heather: must be exciting to be there. what would a win look like from both countries from this we summit. here to weigh in is our foreign-policy panel, defense priority policy director benjamin friedman and former spokesperson to the mission to the united nations, and asia expert with the heritage foundation, thank you for joining us, potentially and exciting day. as we begin our conversation let s go down the line and i will begin with you. what would a win for the us look like in your opinion? there are three goals for the trump administration and going to the summit today.