Separate. And why your reporting is ev even he didnt read the letter and approve it. In the letter friday he said it would be muellers principle conclusions. Thats not the case. On page three he didnt have a principal collusion. Its barrs that there wasnt obstruction of justice. Everybody stand by. This is cnn breaking news. I want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer in washington. After nearly two years, we now know the main conclusions of Robert Muellers russia information. A fourpage singlespaced summary was released by the Attorney General of the United States, bill barr. Part of the report reading and im quoting now. The investigation did not kid not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or
coordinated with the russians government in its election interference activities. Rudy giuliani told us the findings were better than he expected and President Trump just responded as well. It was a complete and total exoneration.
the d.a. and manhattan cy vance, are you doing your investigation? i think one of the things we re going to see is many states have been starting their investigations and they were starting them in the context of the mueller probe. we know the attorney general for new york had been cooperating with mueller and his probe, and therapy certainly sharing information or at least it was suggested that they were. but i don t think there s any question we ve seen already what the new york state attorney general has done with the corruption with his charity he used as a personal political piggy bank, and he s had to fork over a substantial fine, he s had to close the charity and he can t open another one, and by the way his children served on the board. so this is another instance in which is family is implicated. but this is the president who brought litigation saying there could be no criminal investigation of a sitting president. that is an astounding,
we don t have that situation here. i think one of the formative figures of this year once history looks back on it, it will be barr and what barr has done to shield president trump through the mueller report, through the release of the inspector general s report. there are all these ways in which barr has acted as the opposite of the intents of a federal agent i think where we are is we actually have to accept, we re so used to the federal government coming in and saving that we ve kept looking for versions of that in mueller, in the impeachment investigation which i strongly support. but instead we have to understand that actually the tables are turned, and we should be looking to states, and actually i think the press is a little complicit in this is that the press should be asking questions about state a.g.s and what they are doing about local das, and we shouldn t wait until mueller comes out to say, hey,
is a distraction and it seems to be once again this effort of muddying the waters to create confusion, particularly among independent voters who might not be following this closely and there is an indication from a lot of the president s supporters that they feel rudy was effective at that in mueller and here we see him doing that again. but the truth matters, doug. and even if polls aren t moving today, they could move tomorrow. and even if they don t, isn t it important to press this? rudy giuliani dangling evidence that he never provides. look, i mean, he s a conman. i don t know why we re giving him much credibility. he s a con man who has been off the rails for years and he s been pushing lies for months related to the vice president. and really he is pushing russian propaganda. this notion that ukraine hacked the dnc and that they have the server, that comes right from moscow. he is essentially acting as a russian agent here and i think
be saying, couldn t you have an audio book. they have celebrities doing it. i would be saying, i created this report, now you want me to read it in my own voice. he s saying, hey, folks, everybody is really interested in obstruction where i concluded there was all this russian interference and we indicted a number of individuals. my report was a success if you depending on how you define success. if you just want to get the president, then maybe not but in this case, he s got to be wandering why am i here. you are giving us insight of what is going on in mueller s head what about the other side. what is the first line of questioning? for the most part will say, on page whatever, you say blank.