had to go through this. ton honest, it s a shame that your president has had to go through this for, before i even got elected. it began. and it began illegally, and hopefully somebody s going to look at the other side. this was an illegal takedown that failed. and hopefully somebody s going to be looking at the other side. so it s complete exoneration. no collusion. no obstruction. thank you very much. thank you. the president saying no collusion. no obstruction. not taking any questions from reporters. you can call that a 2020 preview how he will use this investigation or try to use it to his advantage going forward saying he was unfairly victimized and a segment of washington and of the country that was trying to unfairly take him out of office.
our show a year-and-a-half ago and as most legal scholars have said to you and ari and other people on this network, donald trump s greatest threat legally does not come from robert mueller. and you can look at the tape. this is not monday morning quarterbacking after robert mueller has come in and said there was no collusion. legal scholars have said time and time again, at least on our show and on your show, that the greatest threat that donald trump faces legally is from the southern district of new york. that was true before today. that s true after today. and there are a lot of questions to still be answered. and, yes, the democrats should conduct oversight, just like the republicans should have conducted oversight hearings. now republicans would say that democrats shouldn t conduct oversight hearings. many of them were the same hypocrites that continued investigating hillary clinton and benghazi until after the
as tom explained. cynthia is right. legally it s not an absolute plat prohibition. and when barr came in, neil is right. always had a kooky interpretation of obstruction. why it s really important to have a traditional prosecutor s answer about if there s obstruction. joining us now by phone trump s lawyer, jay sekulow. mr. sekulow, thank you for joining us. give us your initial reactions. very pleased. both on, from the outset of this entire inquiry we had said that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russians and that determination proved to be correct. we also said there was no obstruction, and that also became correct. so we re very, very pleased. we think this is a complete victory for the president, and i i also would say that the process upon which this moved
and like you said, a lot of people indicted. a lot of russians indicted, almost 200 charges brought during the course of this during the course of this investigation. and, again, the mystery here is, if there was no collusion, and i think what reporters need to dig into is need to figure out why did donald trump why did mike pence, why did jeff sessions, why did the president s first national security adviser, why did the president s campaign chairman, why did the president s assistant campaign chairman, why did the president s son-in-law why did they all lie about contacts with russians? they might not have conspired directly with russians, according to mueller, who has exonerated the president and his team on that, but they definitely benefited from what
himself. jared kushner, several times, lied on his disclosure forms regarding meetings with russians. again, i think one of the questions that will remain for quite some time is that if there was no collusion and we can be convinced of that today, why did donald trump and why did his administration and why did everybody close to him lie about contacts that they had with russia throughout the course of the campaign? and i guess the answer to that may just be pure basic greed. he wanted to build a tower in moscow. that was going to be my next question. why all the lying? because that s been the one consistent thing in the past two-and-a-half years, is when you ask anybody in charge about russia, they will obfuscate. or they will outright lie. 37 indictments in total from robert mueller over the course of this investigation. a number of guilty pleas secured, and one conviction by