president s prerogative to assert it, but we know that ronald reagan did not assert it in iran contra because he wanted there to be full transparency. so to my earlier point, the president really holds a lot of power with respect to the regulations that govern barr, the classification of the information that s underneath it, his freeing up people who are testifying before the grand jury to tell what they said to the grand jury because they are permitted to do so, and not asserting executive privilege. really, it s on the president to determine how transparent a view we ll have into what mueller did. not mueller and really not barr in the end. and, walter, what do you believe the american people are owed in these conclusions? and i think that s the most important question, because this has to do with the integrity of our government. and it s supposed to be a representative democracy. and so our representatives in congress need access to all of this information, obviously, with the e
obviously the special counsel said there was none. but it doesn t explain a lot of the bread crumbs that were spread out throughout the filings. why did paul manafort share polling data with a russian intel agent? why did rod rosenstein say in his memo that was unredacted that mueller account investigation collusion as it pertained to manafort and his meetings with russians? it didn t answer a lot of those questions we ve had on the team, and that, i think, is what democrats are going to be pressing for. also the fact it says there s not evidence to conclude the president committed a crime on obstruction, but it doesn t exonerate him. they re probably going to seize on the fact that, look, the attorney general determined this, not mueller. mueller did not determine it like he did on collusion, saying there was no collusion with russians and the trump campaign. they left it up to the attorney general. as we re reviewing all this, we should note we haven t heard from president trump
did not say, well, we can t the reason we re not indicting the president for obstruction of justice is we can t indict a sitting president. they didn t say that. they said, our conclusion is the evidence is insufficient to bring a case against the president for obstruction of justice, but that decision, as i read this letter, was made by barr and rosenstein, not mueller. we haven t gotten any reaction from the white house yet. we re still waiting. the president himself has not tweeted on the end of this report yet. we have an interesting tweet from the scheduler for the president, this woman named madeline. she sits right outside the president s oval office. he constantly refers to her when he has people in the oval office. she just tweeted, how many tens of millions of dollars did the more than taxpayers have to pay to find out what everyone else already knew, that there was no collusion. that s the first reaction we re getting from people inside the west wing, but expect more of
conclusion by the attorney general. from bill barr and rosenstein. not mueller. by the way, when we hear from president trump, it s a little bit of a preview. right? of how they are going to spin, not unusual for white house s add min strait stragss s tstra administrations to do that. you re getting a good preview of what he s going to say. nike doubt about it, keep going back to this. even nikki haley earlier today before we knew the full results what barr would say was essentially saying it s time to move on. no more indictments. so you put all of these things together and politically speaking, this is a very good day for president trump, and they re going to be spiking the football today and right through election day likely, katy. yes. again, although i don t think we can call it spin. that is lying. go to ari melber, chief legal an
in terms of the timing of the release of it, that i wouldn t guess because as you know, they ve been saying it s going to be released in 2 weeks just in public, not mueller s team but they have been saying it ll be released next week for at least a month, there s no telling when it s actually going to be released and the only guy that knows is bob mueller. eric: yeah and he, i guess, ain t talking. he ain t. eric: chris, always good to talk to you, thank you for your insight. arthel. arthel: after 6 years of drought, california is having wettest sentence 40 years, but experts say the state s golden opportunity is just going down the drain. william explains. we are watching the river and it s going to be aimed right at southern california. from la to san francisco, near record rain yet 80% is wasted. and we will never capture but we have to do better job of capturing what we can. a study by pacific institutes california cities fail to