Former special Counsel Robert Mueller was on capitol hill testifying before the intelligence committees, russia investigation. Well show the first hearing he appeared out. This is held by the house judiciary committee. [background noises] fiduciary Committee Welcome to order. Without objection, chair authorized to recess at anytime. We welcome everyone to todays hearing. Investigation into the russian president ial election. Thousand 16. A brief Opening Statement. Thank you for being here, doctor kohler. I would to say a few words about these things today. Responsible to, integrity and accountability. Your career is a model of responsibility. You are a decorated marine officer. He served as the department of justice and immediate estimate of 9 11 Service Director of the fbi. Two years ago, you return to Public Service into russian interference in 2616 election. Conducted the investigation with remarkable integrity. Twentytwo months, you never commented in public about the work even whe
Comey. We have got them. Well give you have the update on how members of the Intelligence Community disappointed to hear what mueller testified how he and his team did not investigate that unverified steele dossier. To the house. Getting out of dc a day early for their august recess. Some democrats purnlted on their own border fix. They are skipping town while the announced big bombshell. A major third country asylum deal with guatemala. Bias in the media. A major newspaper only check the republicans making mistakes at the mueller hearing when the democrats made a lot of the mistakes. The networks have media analysts saying the media failed to explain the russia probe in a bite size way so voters can understand that President Trump should be impeached. The media making the case against trump . Is that journalism . Welcome to the show. Lets start with President Trump. He just unload on a host of targets from democrats talking impeachment. Then went after the 2020 democrats. We have chad
Say the word and sing along. Have you heard the words of love. Cheryl welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning. Thank you for joining us. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl lets take a look at how your money is moving on this thursday. As you can see, a mixed picture for u. S. Futures. The dow is higher by 40, s p, 1 andahalf, nasdaq is lower by 15 andahalf. Earnings to talk about. Lauren coming off record highs for two of the three. Check out the yield in the 10 year treasury, 2. 03 . Cheryl taking a look at oil. We dont have any resolution in the middle east, in particular with iran and of course londons got to now deal with iran. Weve got a gain of 34cents there. Lauren this is how stocks closed thursday in asia, mostly higher. The kospi down a third of 1 . Cheryl were waiting to hear from boris johnson, hes going to talk to parliament this morning. The ftse, the cac and dax all in the green. Lauren President Trump called the witch hunt over, following Rober
Captioning performed by vitac although your report states collusion is not a specific offense and you have said this this morning, or a term of art in federal criminal law, conspiracy is in the colloquial context are collusion and conspiracy essentially synonymous terms . You are going to have to rethat for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in the federal criminal law, conspiracy is. Yes. In the colloquial context no public context collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If not on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote in as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy 18 usc you said at your may 29 press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different from what your report states. What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it is accurate. Let me just clarify. You stated that you had stay
Coming up, your calls and reaction on Robert Muellers testimony before the house judiciary and house Intelligence Committees yesterday. Washington journal is next. Did you actually totally exonerate the president . No. Your report states a did not exonerate the president. It does. Your investigation actually found multiple asked by the president capable of exerting undue influence over Law Enforcement investigations, including the obstruction and russian investigations. Correct. Can you give me an example other than donald trump where an investigated person was not exonerated because innocence was not conclusively determined . I cannot. I will tell you why, it doesnt exist. Host good morning. We will begin today with your reaction to Robert Muellers testimony yesterday. The former special counsel sitting and fielding questions for nearly seven hours with lawmakers questioning, what stood out to you . Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. Join us on