No. If no on page 180 of volume you wrote its synonymous with conspiracy as that is set forth in usc371. You said at your press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different than what your report states today . What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluation whether it is let me clarify. You stated youve said within the report. I stated your report back do you. Collusion and conspiracy were not synonymous terms. Your answer was no. Page 180, volume 1 of your report it says as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is with conspiracy. Now you said you chose your words carefully. Are you contradicting your report right now . Not when i read it. You change your answer to yes then. No, no. If you look at the language im reading your report, sir, its a yes or no answer. Page 180, volume 1. From your report. Correct. I leave it with the report. So the report says yes theyre synonymous. We can put
Break news, the Trump Administration is defying another congressional subpoena. This one for the president s tax returns. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin claiming the demand is not legitimate in a letter sent to the house ways and means chairman a little while ago in as President Trump falsely claimiclaim i ing he was not warned about problems involving Michael Flynn. Mr. Trump lashing out on twitter after the bomb shell revelation that flynn told Robert Mueller that people connected to the Trump Administration or congress contacted him in a potential effort to obstruct justice. Flynn back up his claim by giving mueller a voice mail recording as evidence. Ill get reaction from democratic congressman. Lets go to our chief white house correspondent. Michael flynn is creating new headaches for the president tonight. Reporter he certainly is. President trump is trying to rewrite history about Michael Flynns cooperation with the special counsel. The president claims earlier today that nobo
Twoyear investigation. And despite his reluctance to testify, mueller offered a stark, often emphatic summary of his findings. He pierced a gaping hole in the president s most misleading defense, trumps false claim that the Mueller Report exonerated him. The president has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him. But that is not what your report said, is it . Correct, that is not what the report said. And what about total exoneration . Did you actually totally exonerate the president . No. Far from exonerating the president , mueller confirmed for millions of americans today that trump and his associates embraced russian interference with open arms and then lied about it. In fact, the Campaign Welcomed the russian help, did it not . In the report indications that occurred, yes. Apart from the russians wanting to help trump win, several individuals associated with the Trump Campaign were also trying to make mone
Obviously today was the Second Public hearing of the impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Were going to talk about that in detail tonight. In terms of the latest news, though, i do need to mention as soon as the public hearing wrapped up today with u. S. Ambassador ma yrie yovanovitch, immediately thereafter the Impeachment Committees started taking a closed door deposition from another new witness. The public hearings like the ones we saw with ambassador yovanovitch today, those are supposed to be the sort of second phase of the impeachment proceedings. But apparently as more of this story is becoming known to the public and to the investigators, and as more witnesses are coming forward, you know, the Impeachment Committees are having to sort of figure out what to do with new folks who are relevant to the investigation that theyre still proceeding with. So theyre discovering new witnesses, theyre then arranging testimony from these new witnesses. And in order to do that, t
Next week, their plan for his day of walltowall testimony is becoming clearer if donald trump were anyone but the president , he would be charged with the crimes mueller uncovered. The democratic staffer and the House Judiciary Committee tells nbc news, quote, whats important is there is truly shocking evidence of criminal misconduct by the president , not once, but again and again and again that would result in any other american being criminally charged in a multiplecount indictment. Those multiple counts would include the following flash points in the obstruction of justice investigation where democrats are planning to focus most of their attention next week. One, donald trump repeatedly directing his White House Counsel Don Mcgahn to fire Robert Mueller. Two, telling mcgahn to lie about being asked to fire Robert Mueller when the news media reported on it. Three, directing former campaign aid cory learn an dow ski to turn attorney general Jeff Sessions to limit the getion. Four, te