stay connected with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. dana: as we await the attorney generas summary, congressional lawmakers are ready for a showdown after months of division over this investigation. democrats seem to have one objective, insuring the public can read as much of mueller s report as possible if not the entire thing, and chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel is live on capitol hill. what are you hearing from leading democrats as we await the summary of the report which is coming in the next 10-20 minutes? reporter: chuck schumer tweeted this afternoon the american people are entitled to see the mueller report and its underlying documentation for themselves. they do not need or want the trump administration to summarize, sanitize or or spin the report, they simply want the truth. hashtag, release the report. earlier the house intelligence chairman was asked if impeachment is the end game. that s not
the special counsel, therefore, did not draw a conclusion as to whether the examined conduct constitutioned ab instruction constituted. instead, the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the special counsel views as, quote, difficult issues, unquote, of law and fact concerning whether the president s actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction. the special counsel states, quote, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, comma, it also does not exonerate him, unquote. let me repeat that. special counsel states that, quote, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it does not, it does not exonerate him. this goes on. the special counsel s decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the attorney general to determine whether the conduct described in this, in the report or constituted a crime.
pretty much agree on pote most of the issues. dana: your take on that, michael. people want the report to be released. people are for transparency in government, so i agree, it s hard to have an edge without being conflicted with other people in the middle of the primary field. and clearly, what we know is bob mueller has done a yeoman s job here of 36 different entities and people have been charged in the middle of this process, so clearly, he s found people that have broken the law, and he s prosecuted them. now we re a about to find out what he nose about the rest, but knows about the rest, but we ll just have to wait and see. dana: more than two dozen of those, of course, were russian entities and may never actually get arrested but, of course, those indictments did come forward. i believe we have some sound also from senator ted cruz, is that right? okay. i just wanted to make sure we had it before i called for it. colin, could you take a listen
fund. ed: there could still be other legal perils, but could there be a pile-on effect that also helps the president make his case that they re out to get him no matter what bob mueller finds or not? maybe. and president trump hasn t wavered from saying this is a witch hunt from the last 22 months. but on the other hand, one big thing we need to think about is the fact that mueller has been making his case publicly over the past 22 months; 25 russians indicted, 3 russian companies, including the very forensic details relates to the dnc and dccc. so in terms of whether this report is going to seem like a bombshell, it might not. it s really quite a political moment here. ed: sure, it is. and especially because you have democrats, adam schiff two years ago saying they had evidence of collusion, if robert mueller
but as attorney general barr has written before, for obstruction of justice to be a crime, there has to be an underlying crime, misdeed, that leads to it. that was not found, and thereby the executive, the commander in chief, he is not falling you should the guidelines of obstruction of justice moving that forward. i m sure there will be democrats on capitol hill that say they want to see the specifics, and they want to go down that road. but the attorney general and the deputy attorney general are making that decision in this report. it is stunning, these sentences here ed: absolutely. dana: just a complete and total vindication. yeah, a total vindication of what he said from the beginning. 231 times, dana, he s said no collusion. or tweeted. 231 times. this is the 232nd, and it comes from the special come. dana: and the special counsel, of course, he never leaked, he didn t do any show boating,