couldn t and then the fact he basically said i couldn t do it but here s the road map, ladies and gentlemen in congress, to be able to determine whether you pursue impeachment proceedings. he s damned for that. i think what robert mueller said on wednesday still rings true. i don t think bill barr, the way he is pretty much doing the televised interviews and i find personally inappropriate, as the attorney general of the united states, he s not a legal contributor. not supposed to be doing legal commentary and the fact he goes on tv and spin things when robert mueller, an exceptionally reticent, private man is not countering what bill barr is saying is problematic and why i think someone like congressman schiff saying we need robert mueller to testify before congress, you know, my apologies, mr. mueller, perhaps you get a subpoena to do so, kendis, time and time again, i think we all are rushing to
action taken by the fbi, taken by some of our intelligence community. as a matter of fact, if they had not acted, it would have been the height of irresponsibility. given how much he misled the country of mueller s report and findings, we can say given this power he ll do so in a way to mislead the country in the president s service. adam schiff referring to william barr right there. joining me is mike. reporter: hello, again, to you, as well. democrats are up in arms over bill barr and so are people, neutral observers, listening to bill barr, observe the actions over the course of the last
went through a summary of his own of that report, basically making it clear that he found a number that russia interfered with the election, that the idea that he exonerated trump in any way was a total misstatement, and it basically just put the issue back on the table. the problem we have is that most people in this country have not read the 400-plus pages of the mueller report. including members of congress. including members of congress. and really what you ve got in that report of criminal ity. one is the obstruction of justice. the other is the break in of the democratic national committee and the other is the use of social media to suppress the hillary clinton vote. congress has got to bring that to life. just as james clyburn said, they have got to be educated.
lawmakers, those democrats who flipped those red seats. so far we only see one of them, tom malinowski of new jersey, call for impeachment. while there are over 50 democrats calling for impeachment and that is significant, it is still the minority view in the caucus. but the numbers are growing at least among the public, 41% supporting impeachment, up a little from last month. nick, in your piece in the daily news you say that mueller destroyed trump s lies in his public statement. how so? he destroyed it because basically trump has been saying since barr came out with his so-called summary of the mueller report that he was exonerated and there was no collusion. basically mueller came out and said that the only reason he didn t conclude that trump committed any crimes was because he was hemmed in by the department of justice policy that doesn t allow a sitting president to be indicted. so he basically got up there and
then he says, i m just disappointed in you. don t bring alex witt into this. i love alex. bill barr could tell bob mueller, bob, i m your supervisor, your superior and i am overseeing this probe. i want you to make a decision. bill barr didn t do that. instead, he took the report and then he took advantage of bob mueller s belief that he couldn t render an opinion on obstruction because that s for the congress to do. it really is this sort of political double speak that doesn t withstand scrutiny. what do you make of the back and forth this week where barr claimed that the special counsel could have reached a decision on obstruction? kind of gave many people whiplash. i think that he would have been damned if he did and robert mueller said conclusively i would have indicted president trump but for the fact of the olc opinion saying that i