what does your reporting tell you as to how this went down and is everybody getting along over there at d.o.j. tonight do you think? i think the justice department has done a lot to try to say that the special counsel and bill barr are doing just fine. they put out a joint statement saying that, you know, mueller and barr are not actually that far apart in terms of what they think the report says. clearly, bill barr chose to weigh in on something mueller said nobody should weigh in except for a process outside of the system. so that is it makes that statement look odd in that light but certainly the justice department is trying to show the two men are still unified. interestingly, though, it is clear that robert mueller wanted to step in and dispel a lot of myths, most importantly, the myth that he was working without a frame work or his decision not to prosecute or to prosecute was somehow mysterious, which is how bill barr portrayed it.
it appears barr may have thrown the rule book out. katy, let s pick up on that very point. what does your reporting tell you as to how this went down and is everybody getting along over there at d.o.j. tonight do you think? i think the justice department has done a lot to try to say that the special counsel and bill barr are doing just fine. they put out a joint statement saying that, you know, mueller and barr are not actually that far apart in terms of what they think the report says. clearly, bill barr chose to weigh in on something mueller said nobody should weigh in except for a process outside of the system. so that is it makes that statement look odd in that light but certainly the justice department is trying to show the two men are still unified. interestingly, though, it is clear that robert mueller wanted to step in and dispel a lot of myths, most importantly, the myth that he was working without a frame work or his decision not
is everybody getting along over there at d.o.j. tonight do you think? i think the justice department has done a lot to try to say that the special counsel and bill barr are doing just fine. they put out a joint statement saying that, you know, mueller and barr are not actually that far apart in terms of what they think the report says. clearly, bill barr chose to weigh in on something mueller said nobody should weigh in except for a process outside of the system. so that is it makes that statement look odd in that light but certainly the justice department is trying to show the two men are still unified. interestingly, though, it is clear that robert mueller wanted to step in and dispel a lot of myths, most importantly, the myth that he was working without a frame work or his decision not to prosecute or to prosecute was somehow mysterious, which is how bill barr portrayed it. he couldn t figure out why mueller did this.
a crime, we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. the introduction to the volume two of our report explains that decision. it explains that under long standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that, too, is prohibited. the special counsel s office is part of the department of justice and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider. the department s written opinion explaining the policy makes several important points that inform the handling of the obstruction investigation.
equivocation on his statements show me what i ve known for a long time. this was a political hit job all along with two goals, either to impeach the president or to undermine and damage him coming into the 2020 election. to the democrats i say go ahead, man up, try and impeach him and see what happens. shannon: there is the question in terms of the timing for yesterday, why that happened and is the smaller s way of encouraging democrats to go down this impeachment route? i want you to respond to that and what nancy pelosi had to say. we are legislating, we are investigating and we are litigating and we are going as we go down the path make a decision based on the strongest possible case to get the best results for the american people. is it best for the american people to go down the impeachment road? it is best for the american