the white house knows it. they are gearing up for a subpoena fight over the full report. that would lay out whatever this conduct is that special counsel says doesn t exonerate the president when it comes to obstruction. elliott, you need a criminal intent. clearly in this particular case, at least the attorney general and the deputy attorney general said they didn t have enough evidence to show criminal intent. i want to use the words very carefully. criminal intent that could have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. there s sort of two standards that we need to pay attention to here. what it takes to deprive someone of liberty under the law, to charge someone and convict them, and what it means for a president of the united states or a campaign for the presidency to have behaved in an inappropriate manner. take away the impeachment question. to paraphrase something from the campaign, congress, are you listening? you know, they will be paying attention to the underlying documen
especially against the president of the united states. and obviously this is now going to be debated for months, for years to come, to try and understand what does this exactly mean. if we were sitting here discussing a different kind of situation, a different person who was under investigation, yeah, the person essentially, they say we don t have enough evidence. we can t charge you. so the president, his team, and his lawyers certainly, a lot of the lawyers we don t know about that have been working behind the scenes r feeling pretty good right now. they did everything they can to protect him certainly from the obstruction charges, and for them this is a victory. and i ve been communicating with some of them. they believe, look, they believed all along that if they fought this interview, that bob mueller would never subpoena, get into a subpoena fight with the president. he didn t want to drag this out. it was a fight he could potentially lose. all right. rudy giuliani is joi
this question of the interview? and in this statement here, barr quotes the special counsel talking about difficult issues of law and fact concerning the president s actions and intent. whether those could be viewed as obstruction. and maybe those are difficult issues because the president did not get to interview the special counsel did not get to interview the president of the united states. and therefore could not draw a conclusion and therefore decided to hand it over to barr because he decided for whatever reason or maybe it was mutually decided behind closed doors for whatever reason not to get into a subpoena fight with the president. well, i think the decision on obstruction of justice underlines how wise rudy giuliani and jay sekulow were to throw their bodies in front of
the president never had to sit down with robert mueller for an interview. he answered written questions but never had to sit down. robert mueller did not want a subpoena fight. all and all i am talking to close to the white house views it as a win. the white house officials have also been preparing for a subpoena fight. they do want to keep this report under wrap. they do not want a lot of this to be made public. their concern is there could be, some conduct that was undietable but derogatory and could make the president looks bad. they don t know what s in this report. the principle points that he s going to tell congress about how extensive his summary of the mueller report going to be. they need to release the entire mueller report. they re saying we don t just want the report of what mueller handed you today. we want to see all the under
81 document requests that the judiciary committee sent out. you saw eric trump on there and donald trump jr. jared kushner was among that list of names. there is an interest in ivanka in terms of the broader question of white house security clearance. those areas are certainly something where we re going to see congressional committees interested in learning more information. specifically as to whether and why the president may have overridden career professionals with the recommendations providing security clearance to ivanka and jared. and john kelly. what is the likelihood he gets called to testify? one of the things i was speaking with a number of congress folks about this. they do expect that. trying to bring john kelly before the committee will result in a subpoena fight. this idea they believe he might claim executive privilege or they really have to resort to a