flippers all his life. what president of the united states has spent his adult life with criminals. criminal i might posit. i think you probably got that right. if you analogize the president to a mobster, i hate to say it, but it s not crazy. in his own words and by his own deeds that s how he talks and how he acts. over that long-winded two-part question they seem to have gotten off in the mueller probe from committing a conspiracy by stupidity. mueller writes on the facts the government would unlikely be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the june 9th meeting participants had general knowledge that their conduct was unlawful. that seems to say they were too stupid to inclucollude. the mueller team talks about
cooperate. responding to cnn, vladimir putin s spokesman refused to even talk about robert mueller s statement. translator: no, i can t comment on that. we spent enough time talking about mr. mueller and the results of his work. reporter: russia has long said it wants to get relations with the u.s. back on track, claiming continued talk about election interference would only get in the way. and, wolf, senior russian officials are already saying they believe that the atmosphere between the kremlin and white house has improved since the end of the mueller probe. and they certainly wouldn t want questions about election meddling to weigh on that, wolf. fred pleitgen, thank you. coming up, a new blast of insults from north korea. despite president trump s going out of his way to side with kim jong-un. has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they
more now on the breaking news. republican congressman justin amash doubling down on his claim that the president has committed impeach bable offenses. manu raju is joining us once again. congressman amash just let loose with a new tweet storm making his case for impeachment, firing directly back at the president. update our viewers. defending his remarks, pushing back against republicans, saying there were, quote, many crimes that were revealeded by the mueller probe and in some ways, going further than some democrats when it comes to impeachment. but, sir, this is reporter: the republican blowback facing gop congressman justin amash has been swift and intense. he votes more with nancy pelosi than he ever votes with me. reporter: but gop leaders sending a message to amash that they cannot tolerate one of their own suggesting that president trump should be impeached. those who know justin amash, this is exactly what he wants. he wants to have attention. reporter: the cha
i feel good about you, i ll take care of you, maybe even i ll pardon you if you get into trouble as long as you stay on my side of the line. and, joyce, we know from reporting in the new york times that a trump lawyer raised the prospect of pardons for flynn and manafort. we know that that was something that robert mueller probed. it would appear that revelations like this and a judge ordering that this be made public also explains the doj/white house strategy, but it doesn t explain what was behind mueller s ultimate decision to leave this to barr except, of course, that maybe that wasn t mueller s decision. maybe leaving the obstruction probe unresolved was the end of the mueller probe, no? you know, it is such a difficult question. we don t know what was animating bob mueller s decision at that point in time. it seems like it would have been so easy for him to go a little bit further, and so at some point in time we will have to hear mueller and perhaps others from his team te
i would love to see that. . let s get the whole thing released. thank you so much. thank you. and look, we keep checking our phones to see if the president is going to tweet about something other than it being a nice morning. he is on the golf course. why is he being so cautious? the former trump campaign adviser on the end of the mueller probe coming up. anna, do you have those plans? yes! i just wanted to show you something i ve been wor. james r. and associates. anna speaking. james r. and associates. anna. [phone ringing] baker architects. this is anna baker. at northwestern mutual, this is what our version of financial planning looks like. tomorrow is important, but you re ready to bet on yourself today.