president clinton lied to the country for months about israel his affair, but by the time it got to the house and the senate, you know the jig was up and there were no real dispute about the facts. everybody knew what he had done. the question was what do you do about it. the question at that time was it impeachable? did he you know lie under oath, obstruct justice and if so, was that important enough to remove him from office. this time, you have this war shack test. either you have as we saw yesterday at the hearing, a president who has abused his power in order to further his own interest above those of the country or you have somebody being railroaded by a complete witch hunt. a perfect call as the president likes to say just being twisted into this partisan showdown. i think that reality is what makes this different than it was 21 years ago. we re living in these two different realities rather than starting same set of facts and arguing about what to do with them. how important
key witness to come before congress and they don t have the answers to that yet. they want to check that box before they decide to go forward. dana bash, thank you very much. and thanks so much to all of you for joining us for our breaking news coverage on this historic testimony day. our coverage continues here on cnn with anderson. and good evening from washington. robert mueller spoke today and millions listened. the question is what did they hear. the russian special counsel s testimony before the house judiciary committee and intelligence was in many ways a war shack test. different assumptions on each side going in and lines of questioning and different take aways from the two sides afterward. republicans large recalling it a failed offense of what in their view was an illegitimate investigation. democrats hanging on every instance mueller confirmed what was in his report and so doing conif i recafirmed the democrat that a felon sits in the white house. what neither side got
like you re seeing now. the protests were angry. these are celebrations now. demanding he step down over group messages that include home phobic language and jokes about hurricane maria. we ll continue you update on this story as warranted. the governor of puerto rico stepping down. effective friday august 2 at 5:00 p.m. i now go to my colleague anderson cooper. in progress. and good evening from washington. robert mueller spoke today and millions listened. the question is what did they hear. the russian special counsel s testimony before the house judiciary committee and intelligence was in many ways a war shack test. different assumptions on each side going in and lines of questioning and different take aways from the two sides afterward. republicans large recalling it a failed offense of what in their view was an illegitimate investigation. democrats hanging on every instance mueller confirmed what was in his report and so doing
unconstitutional about that but the theory of the olc memo is that it is unconstitutional. so i think mueller could have. i understand why he didn t. i think at this point, though, it s very much incumbent upon congress to take up that question, and i think in addition to the fairness point, mueller placed a lot of weight on not wanting to preempt congress s process, and that process is supposed to be informed by judgment made by politically accountable actors. and mueller is not that. but in mueller s effort to play it down the middle, i think he left this war shack test that we saw unfold this week that people were reading into his nine or so minute presser whatever they wanted to, and i don t think that it moved the needle either way as a result. you get the final word. okay. i completely agree with you. i think he has left us in a position where supporters of the president continue to say
and done that s the issue. that s the issue and on the scale from 0 to 10, zero being these are all coincidences and ten being collusion, i am now at a seven. wow. thank you as always. appreciate your expertise. thanks. all of our scales here go from one to 11 because harry shear is still to come. as always tweet me your thoughts or post them on my facebook page. it s clear as mud that nunes is in trump s pocket and not imposhl. he must go and be investigated for his own russian ties. all i can tell you is i don t think he should have made that trip down pennsylvania avenue and given a briefing to the pennsylvania because that s not his role. his role is to be our eyes and ears and not the president s. up next. it s a political war shack test. i love this. what does this look like? put it up on the screen.