plan. they want to poke holes in the credibility of the special counsel team and raise questions about alleged bias by the special counsel, so all of the negotiations or the format really just a preview of tomorrow s very dramatic testimony as democrats hope this reshapes the narrative and the public understanding about alleged criminal conduct in the white house but others are downplaying the impact this will have and republicans hoping it does what the president has hoped, to show in his view that he was exonerated. manu raju on capitol hill. stand by. i want to bring in our crime and justice reporter shimon procku pez. why does he want the deputy by his side. he wants to protect mule tore give him cover. so they re hoping to have they were hoping to have him sit there and answer some of the questions that the committee members were going to have and what we re seeing here from the letter yesterday that the department of justice published from mueller asking for guidance about
on everyday americans so that criminal justice plan he led the way in the crime bill in the 90s and it backfired and helped create mass incarceration. he was a strong backer of nafta. we lost a million manufacturing jobs. nafta is coming back again. how are people going to trust if it is joe biden that he s not not going to make the same mistake again. he voted for the iraq war. i respect his service to the country but he has to answer the questions because how is it believable. we have to take on trump, a tough customer and beat him by showing we re the party of change and we re going to change the lives of working americans. democratic party is not entirely believable to working class and middle class americans and we have to show them something different. how is joe biden going to say he s anything but the candidate of the status quo. he a big fund raiser in new york and he invited the media in and set to the richest people in new york city, don t worry, anything will change if
did mueller intend to do about it? a process or indictment? he s par odding his lawyers and saying you could fire anybody you would like, meaning james comey and gives you authority over the executive branch but doesn t give him the right to do something illegal which he should not be doing and carl you know about this better than anybody. he has a habit of doing it. and the president said have you ever heard of article two, this is what has been he s been hearing from his lawyers and so he feels, well, you know, i ve got teflon on. he s mangling nothing can touch me. he s mangling this serious legal case that some on the right make that if you obstruct justice or something that looks like obstructing justice in the course of using your article two powers, that is not obstruction of justice. that is not exactly what he said, but that is what
lawmakers, will ask mueller? well, as you know, he s not necessarily confined to that report despite what doj is asking and we are not necessarily confined in asking questions. that being said, i think that we will be very happy to hear him talk about what is in the report because him giving voice to those findings will likely be the first time that much of the audience who is not read the report will actually hear what it is about. as you know, this is kind of like a lot more people have seen the movie godfather rather than read the book. should mueller ignore the instructions from the justice department? i think that look, he is a man of high integrity and honor, he s a patriot. i think he has to do what is right. if the justice department and bill barr are somehow instructing him not to talk about certain things, even though he should talk about them at the hearing, then he should do what is right and answer the
that is what he means. but that is a view of unlimited power designated to the president of the united states. unchecked at the expense of the other branches of the government. it is unlimited power. because if he does something really bad illegal. there is an impeachment proceeding in the house and then a trial in the senate if convicted he s removed from office. yes. that could happen. but what you have again, you had nixon who asserted similarly that he was above the law but he did it in private, his assertion. but so unusual here is the president of the united states gets up almost every day and really asserts i am above the law, i am contemptuous of the law and i will do what i want to do hold on a moment. we re getting breaking news into the situation room. i want to go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider. what are you learning? reporter: we re learning in the past few minutes the doj will be launching a formal anti-trump review of the nat