illegally interfere with the two thousand and sixteen presidential election but did not find that the trump campaign or other americans colluded in those efforts but what about the possible obstruction of justice by donald trump ten episodes were examined and the president took no act that in fact deprive the special counsel of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation. the president was quick to react and took to twitter to declare himself fully vindicated he later appeared at an event in washington where he expressed his delight i m having a good day q it was called. no collusion no obstruction of the of. the never was by the way and never will be. but democrats criticized william barr for holding a press conference before the report had been released. the speaker of the u.s.
what struck me is that president trump after the release took place said he was having a great day as he read that report well i think he s having i mean the entire failings of advisers from the white house is out completely on the defensive today kellyanne conway has already come out and said that they re misrepresentations of what happened immediately after the firing of komi there have been a lot of gaps in the narrative filled in for example knowledge that if the trump and jared cushion or others hope pics were aware that they were dirt on hillary clinton being offered by the russians a lot of these these elements are being laid out especially on the obstruction of justice front and that s really where i think a lot of this is going to turn to well there were two cases in this report where we re mother says you know we were almost there in terms of obstruction of justice the report concludes that the only thing that separated from obstructing justice
are everywhere across the country have been saying that people are talking about this report they re talking about health care the the economy is this going to change that do you think in the us i mean i think it s similar to frankly if you think about back to nixon and pietschmann or excuse me and his resignation and watergate a lot of the basic facts of watergate were already available in one thousand nine hundred two before the one nine hundred seventy two election what happened was it just the temperature continue to rise through investigations and through the reactions of the white house itself and i think that s where where this could become much more pressing matter for the trumpet the destruction thank you very much for talking with you again tonight on the day thank you. well here s some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world that north korea has demanded that washington remove secretary of state mike pump from any future nuclear talks a foreign mi
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was the fact that the people he asked to do that for him always said. that could i read that and i thought well isn t this something that s impeachable that it s right there in black and what isn t isn t that a massive irony that in this a lot of the stuff is already come out in bob woodward s reporting from his book last year where he basically said you know a lot of trump s mandates to his staff rob porter apparently corey lewandowsky and others were just not acted upon because the staff knew that this would get the administration in extremely hot water so the irony here is that he actually has a staff that s really looking out for his best interest the question is a question of intent as as i think you have been and others you know. does it become a prosecutable offense and i think that what we re looking at here and this has been indicated in some of the footnotes in the report is that this is something that basically mohler said this is something for congress to look at is that wh