about the inner workings. we don t like congress interfering with it and i say that s what barr is going to adhere to. he may give a little more but, no, it s not consistent with the law and the policy to wholesale hand over everything to you. we don t do that. does congress have legal standing toifi ing ting t ing i? nadler tweeting yesterday, they sent preservation letters to the nsi, dni, the white house, essentially retain anything. anything mueller asked for, keep it. we re going to ask for it. congress absolutely has a job to do here. whether or not something the conspiracy charge is a hard charge to bring. whether individuals were charged with quote/unquote collusion, that s whether they could be charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states and in particular, in relation to the hacking of the dnc and related cyberactivities. that s a high bar to meet as a prosecutor. what s different for congress is they still do have an obligation to understand why it is that this
now word there will be no more indictments from mueller s office is enough for some trump allies to claim victory. if there s no collusion that was found, then it strongly vindicates president trump, but it raises those serious questions about who is going to be held accountable at the fbi, the bad actors that had a political agenda which goes against everything law enforcement is supposed to be about. i m going to be a broken record. congressman scalise has no idea what s in the mueller report when he says that. the president from beginning to end has washed his hands of all the trouble his close associates are in and made a consistent political argument. the entire thing has been a witch hunt, and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign. this is a pure and simple witch hunt. i think that the mueller investigation has been totally d discredited. robert mueller put 13 of the angriest democrats on the commission. it s all a big hoax.
and to also say, wait a second, it s okay for you to not say anything because we just don t know what s in this report. so far they ve been successful but, i mean, it s sunday. we ll see what happens. in his political branding from the beginning has been no collusion and it s all about mueller. all about what he calls the witch hunt. he s still a little anxious. one chapter is closing. he knows about all the congressional investigations and they ll try to go after mueller s work product. he knows about a lot of the investigations that are spread out across the country. he knows the legal cloud is not going anywhere and somehow this is a big moment. mueller has had this mythic status. you even heard congressional democrats were going to be taking on these investigations for the next two years still talking about mueller, mueller, wait until he has to say. so if that is over and doesn t come down hard on the president in a way it s a little bit of an emotional victory, a political vi
so there s several ongoing investigations that and we ve only gotten glimpses of some of them. for instance, in the sentencing of michael flynn, there was a memo that says michael flynn is participating in several ongoing investigations. what are those? and we certainly know more about the southern district of new york because that s the one that involves michael cohen and the hush money payments. so this is why this will continue, right? and beyond today, there are these ongoing investigations that could go on for months, years. and to the point, i don t know if we can put the graphic back up. it s a cynical political argument but it s been effective in the sense the president says collusion, collusion, collusion. he says, see, this was all a waste of time. six people close to this president are going to prison. now some republicans will say, yeah, but none of those charges directly affect the president and none of those charges are about russian collusion. they didn t make that a
and his critics to cringe. why was there never an interrogation of this president? how can they let trump off the hook? he ll not be charged with obstruction or collusion without ever having to sit down with special counsel mueller and answer his questions. how can that happen? the left s favorite conspiracy theory is now dead. it s buried. and there was no collusion. no conspiracy. no obstruction. nothing. trump/russia collusion was, as we always said, a hoax. a lie conceived by hate driven by fear. a 22-month witch hunt. with us this sunday, cnn s sara murray, mark buzzetti, shan wu and legal analyst kerry cordero. we ll get back to the dicey politics in a bit. let s begin with the facts. what we know and the many, many important things we don t know. attorney general william barr and his deputy rod rosenstein worked a long day saturday