America. We talk about testing of the guardrails. In most cases the guardrails of democracy have held up. In this case we might find out that bill barr broke one of those guardrails and we are still dealing with it. All right. This is as good a place to end as any. My thanks today to joyce, frank, matt. That does it for this hour. Thank you so much for watching not just this hour but all day long. Were grateful to all of you. Mtp daily with my friend chuck todd starts now. Well, if its wednesday, its no ordinary hump idea. Its meet the press daily. And we are in the center of a break news storm right now, sort of the postmueller wrapups. Youre looking live at capitol hill where in just a few moments we expect to hear from house
speaker nancy pelosi, jerry nadler, and adam schiff after muellers historic testimony. The biggest question perhaps is what do democrats do now . As we speak, weve been getting tape of the president who is speaking to reporters at the white house. No surprise he
thing if you re not the good it happens. sticking only to the facts we know. i hit reply all? i m sorry, go ahead. yes, you are sorry. the facts that we know right now lead to another remarkable thing that happened yesterday. because if you look at the patterns of this presidency and the reluctance to release anything with the mueller report, to have barr put his version of the mueller report out, to have people refuse to testify due to executive privilege. as jonathan lemire mentioned, cory lieu win women douse ski refused to saying anything with some bogus argument that the president and the executive privilege won t allow him to speak when he doesn t work for the white house, this white house stone walls on everything, fair to say, and then they vomit out this memo yesterday with everything laid out there. and probably waived the executive privilege. once they put out this conversation, once they eloallo
house officials and the president think that they can win because they know how to fight it. i mean, the president has been under a cloud of controversy and alleged criminality ever since he was elected. to keep things moving along straight to the 2020 election. let s talk more about the substance here. chuck rosenberg, you had said earlier in a conversation we had that robert mueller did exactly what he told us he was going to do three months ago. how did democrats do an extracting the mueller report out of robert mueller today? not that good a job. i think, chuck, look, working for bob mueller was one of the great professional privileges of my life. i learned to take the man at his word, completely and directly. if he says he s going to do something, he will do it. if he says he s not going to do something, he won t do it. and what he said on may 29th, i think that was the day of his press conference that his report would be his testimony. he was almost as a warning, hey, guy
think of what deutsche said in this space. monday features john dean. john dean was the white house counsel for nixon. i don t know necessarily what additional elements he could add. he could talk about the historical context here, but let s say, elliott, you were still on the hill. what would you be advising them on how to approach this? i think from a political standpoint they need to get the facts of the mueller report out and on the record. but sam, i m in 100% in agreement with you, i question a witness that was most relevant 40 or 45 years ago just because watergate was relevant but what this is about is getting robert mueller to testify and robert mueller on the record. to be clear, that press conference a week or so ago was some of the clearest information we ve had about the president s
charges from his investigation it s a now there s one store that connects your life and in a statement the president s outside attorney, like never before store. rudy giuliani told fox news this the xfinity store is here. marks the end of the russia investigation. and it s simple, easy, awesome. we await a disclosure of the facts we re confident there is no finding of collusion by the president and this underscores what the president has been saying from the beginning that he did nothing wrong but like the rest of us the white house, all right. the president and his legal team you are looking at presidential are now awaiting the details of candidate, new jersey senator cory booker, he s know south what exactly is in the mueller carolina. report and last night, press the major and prominent democratic candidates are secretary sarah sanders tweeted crisscrossing the country as out the next steps are up to they do every weekend. attorney general barr, and we and right now, to a man or