There was no collusion ed working together through history right now. Our colleague, Shannon Bream, is live in washington. Bret baier will be back at 8 p. M. Eastern. Shannon bream in washington with more fox news special coverage. Dana thanks. It was just announced, there was no collusion with russia. The most ridiculous thing ive ever heard. There was no collusion with russia. There was no obstruction, none whatsoever. And it was a complete and total exoneration. Shannon President Trump just minutes ago reacting to the news from Attorney General bill barr that, quote, The Special Counsels investigation did not find that the Trump Campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 president ial election. Im Shannon Bream in washington. Weve got Fox Team Coverage across d. C. With Mike Emmanuel
on capitol hill, Molly Henneberg at the Justice Department, and lets begin with molly first. Good afternoon. Reporter hi, shannon. No
Out the primary findings. He says he thinks this is a bad day for those hoping the Mueller Investigation would take President Trump down. He congratulates mueller, saying he did a great job, and he says now its time to move on, govern the country, and get ready to comb combat russia and other foreign actors ahead of 2020. So hes complimenting the president , someone whos just spent several hours with him on the golf course. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Very important, dramatic developments unfolding right now in the russia investigation. Im wolf blitzer in washington. The Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, has submitted his report to the Justice Department, to the new Attorney General bill barr. Bill barr has just submitted a fourpage, singlespaced letter to congress with a lot of details. His conclusions on what Robert Mueller and his Special Counsel team came up with. Bottom line, he concludes there was no collusion. The president keeps
andrews at any minute the giant 747 carrying the president will be touching down. president trump spent the weekend at mara lago in florida, his weekend getaway. he is coming back to the white house after this report clears him and his campaign staff of any involvement of any kind in the russian efforts to influence the 2016 election we hope to have that life with full coverage in just a moment i got cones, anybody wants one! oh, yeah! get ya some! no, i can t believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. ed! ed! we struck sprinkles! [cheers] believe it. geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.
determine the extent to which president trump obstructed justice. attorney general barr took two days. i would argue the letter goes farther than that because it says we didn t find he committed acts that were obstruction of justice. what do you make of this back and forth that we re going to have over that point? well, that s exactly what happened with hillary clinton. when comey said not enough evidence to indict, but she was careless, every republican seized on that. what nadler said is exactly why the mueller report shouldn t have said what it said. it should have made its decision. maybe it should send a confidential letter to the attorney general saying it was a close case, we had people arguing one way, people arguing the other way. but you don t make that public. that s not what prosecutors do. let s remember also prosecutorial courts are inmeantly one-sided inherently one-sided. there s no opportunity to hear both sides of the story, so we shouldn t take all that
investigation. they are sick of it millions of dollars have been spent. mueller s team did a thorough job and talk to hundreds of people. wetmore possibly can be found? maybe they will agree it is a witchhunt if the democrats continue after the very professional special counsel made his conclusions. jon: jerry nadler is no fan of the president and he tweeted after the summary was released special counsel mueller worked 22 months to determine the extent to which president trump obstructed justice. attorney general barr took two days to tell the people although the president is not exonerated there will be no action by doj it is almost as if he is not reading the same report. exactly.