president when he was watching bob mueller? characterize his reaction when he was watching that. sure. it was what you saw just now on the south lawn. he was fine with it because this is nothing new. the investigation is closed and we did learn that robert mueller was not going to go to congress. bill: he wasn t fine with it. he is angry at the fact it continues on and they re trying to attack him even though there is no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever. there is no collusion. it is time to move forward here. the president wants to get about the business of the people. it is congress who continues down this road. remember a couple of weeks ago we were here. democrats had a choice between two i words, infrastructure and impeachment. they move toward impeachment. the american people are left in the lurch. bill: what was the last con act with & and chuck schumer? i m not sure if or when the president spoke with them. he talked to them here in the cabinet room and laid the c
there are many suvs, but there s only one legend. hurry in now to the jeep celebration event and get $500 additional bonus cash on select models. bill: bob mueller s statement prompting heated reaction from democrats. at least 10 candidates now calling for impeachment proceedings to begin. senator elizabeth warren saying it s time for congress to act. charlie hurt, opinion editor and fox news contributor. those things shot out fast and quickly. they were. this is sort of the problem that i think i would argue that creates a bigger problem for democrats in a lot of ways than it does for trump because there is a real risk if they run off in this direction on an issue that the majority of americans
collusion conspiracy narrative. i know a lot of folks focused on whether he said there was no evidence or insufficient evidence. as far as the prosecutor is concerned it doesn t matter. there is either evidence sufficient to charge a crime or there isn t. you can t be a little bit pregnant. he said there was no collusion or conspiracy and we can finally put that to rest, it s dead. on the issue of obstruction clearly he intimated but for the olc opinion his team probably would have charged donald trump with obstruction crimes. that s good news for democrats that are looking for a foothold to start impeachment proceedings. the bad news for democrats is bob mueller is clearly wrong on every level with regard to obstruction. but the biggest takeaway for me, smitty, was what bob mueller said that left me flabbergasted when he said if we had confidence that president trump did not clearly commit a crime we would have said so. in that moment what bob mueller did whether he intended to or not
he investigate strzok and page and mccabe and comey and all the lies and brennan and the lies? why didn t comey come clean? why didn t comey come clean and say the thing that he knows are facts? why didn t mueller investigate comey, his best friend? sandra: president trump responding last hour to robert mueller s statement which lit an impeachment frenzy on capitol hill. democrats reacting yesterday and this morning. john ratcliffe serves on the judiciary and intelligence committees and joins us now. thank you for your time. as a member, good morning. hemmer will appreciate that. as a member of the judiciary committee in the house, certainly you are watching every word that robert mueller said yesterday. what were your key takeaways? well a couple of things. i think the good news for every american is bob mueller put a stake in the heart of the
that will be determined by congress. bill: will bob mueller testify? i have no idea. i think that i would like to see him bill: he clearly does not want to based on his comments yesterday. one of the things he seemed pretty intent on doing was saying that he wasn t going to testify. and that if he did testify it would be a repetition of what he said at that news conference and his report. he has put democrats into a tighter box forcing them to make a decision. what is your view on that? that s political question that everybody has just the same views as just the same weight as my views. clearly that is what has happened. there are a number of people getting on that trin. bill: you were watching catherine herridge s report. last night on special report they ran a side-by-side comparison of what these two men have said essentially.