to tighten up the laws. i don t want to testify. the book by mueller is the only testimony you get. congress actually has two it s whether or not it thooz consider legislation to make clearer how we have appropriate oversight if a president possibly committed crimes. you heard it, digging in the crates. you have ever heard of that? no. it means to look up old records, flannery. and 1091, thank you, maia, 1091 says a possible remedy through impeachment for abuses of power would not substitute for criminal liability after a president leaves office. maia wiley digging into the footnotes to remind us that bob
mueller if, you read the report which he asked you to do today, he uses the i record and post presidential criminal indictment as both things that need to be considered but as you say, maia, the question is whether congress will make him have more of this conversation in public than he wants. they re a co-equal branch. they can make calls he might disagree with. i have to fit in a break. thank you both so much. john, you can come back later in the hour. coming up, i ll do a special breakdown on what this means for congress s approach to potential impeachment after mueller s message today. and new questions about mueller and barr and the apparent daylight between them even as we point out mueller was very careful not to make that a focus of his remarks. later in the hour, this is important when you look at a day like today, what mueller didn t say. legal experts are going to break down where y. that s so important. and a kkey warning about putin. . and a kkey warning about putin. maria
in this case cannot be ignored. chapter, an important chapter stay with me. has concluded the mueller as promised, msnbc legal analyst investigation. but it is only the end of the chapter. maia wiley joins us by phone. and now there are further chapters to be written. what is this report s filing one is what does this report tonight mean to you? good evening. i think firstly, it means we actually say it s dealing with a all need to take a deep breath. president. is this the only book? is this the mueller report going because as everyone has already to be comprehensive? said, this really isn t over it is going to cover the southern district investigation even though there is a report. about campaign finance. all these other things about the because the issue is what are trump foundation. or is it limited just to the facts that we can assess as obstruction of justice and russian conspiracy? let me read you to from the citizens for ourselves? letter again which is going to and we
through multiple practice committee hearings where justice department officials pepper him with questions the committee democrats may lob. also important here, the committee better hurry, because whitaker has days left on the job. bill barr has passed through the senate judiciary committee vote. once mcconnell calls the vote, he ll likely breeze through full senate confirmation, then he ll get sworn in and become the permanent and actual attorney general for the second time in his career. while whitaker gets to spend more time with his family. with us to talk about it, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times, maia wiley, now with the news school here in new york and we welcome to the broadcast tal kopan. well committee to you all.
rumors whatever potential pardon there were weren t good enough for paul manafort and his lawyers last week as he considers up to 80 years in jail with two trials to go. we re about to hear directly from this journalist breaking the manafort story. and i m joint by maia wiley, from new york city and i have a special announcement about her and the person who secured this plea deal and from the wall street journal, breaking this story and we add another wall street journal breaking this story. joining us by phone, thank you for hopping on the line after this big scoop i think everyone will be talking about tonight. what do you see as import, significance of paul manafort s lawyers were discussing with mueller to negotiate a deal on the d.c. charges? thanks for having me.