i think that's a question not only for the people of this president, the people around him, but also the people supporting him, and that includes viewers and voters of this president and supporters of this president. which do you care about the most? protecting someone who has clearly misled you when it comes to what's in this report, protecting them at all costs, or protecting the country and our election process? i think that's a good question to ask people who are watching this tonight. >> i think it's a good question, and i think if you wanted to be helpful, you can say, by the way, you can have both. fight over whatever he did and what it means, but keep an eye on this. the idea that the russia thing was hollow, that there was really nothing to this, that's just not true. people have to examine the god forbid scenario, don. if they are better at it next time and they mess with a state, if we have a state like florida, and you know they have their allegations about their machines. if we have proof they got in there and we don't know how and we don't know the extent think about the chaos in the current situation. and senator klobuchar and one of her colleagues wanted to put together a bill saying, hey, we're going to do paper backup in the states just in case, god forbid, if don lemon says they got in there, i didn't vote for him. they have paper backups. >> listen, you say you can have both. but if you're going to have both, you have to be armed with knowledge and the facts. i saw some of the -- quite frankly, some of the people who were contorting themselves to make excuses for what justin amash was saying, what robert mueller was saying. and i just wonder are they brainwashed? it's obvious they did not read the report. in just moments from now, i want everyone to listen, because i'm going to give them, chris, i'm just going to lay it up as if i was a college professor. i don't mean to be condescending, but i think people need to hear it plainly and distinctly. >> good, do it. this guy mr. mueller is as republican as you get, and they're coming out on him now and saying we think he's partisan. you just heard chris ruddy say hey, i didn't think he was a partisan guy but now i have to say he's inherently partisan. >> they were happy with the report. i said this in the report, so read it, the report, and he said, we know he thinks the results of the report were misinterpreted. i got to get to it because i really want people to pay attention. thank you, chris. always good to see you, my brother. i'll see you tomorrow. >> see you tomorrow. >> so, please, everyone, go with me if you will. this is professor lemon. "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. i will be your guide this evening to the facts. i want to do what you could call a bit of mueller 101 tonight. talk about what the special counsel said, what he didn't say, and what it all means in very plain english, okay? so as we should always do, let's begin at the beginning. >> russian intelligence officers who are part of the russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. the indictment alleges that the sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks by the clinton campaign. >> there you have it, class. right out of the gate, mueller is refuting one of the president's favorite talking points, okay? his claim that the investigation was a witch hunt. this was not a witch hunt. it was an absolutely legal investigation of what russia did to interfere in our election. are you listening to me? six separate federal courts, six separate federal courts upheld mueller's appointment, his authority and his prosecutorial decisions. six separate federal courts. yet the attorney general who is the top law enforcement official in the federal government said this less than two weeks ago. >> the president calls this a witch hunt, he calls it a hoax. would you agree with that? >> well, as i've said, if he were the president, i think he would view it as a witch hunt and a hoax, because at the time he was saying he was innocent, and that he was being falsely accused, and if you're falsely accused, you would think that something was a witch hunt. >> so the attorney general is perfectly willing to throw around accusations like witch hunt. even though he has got to know that that is not true. i want you to listen, though, to what mueller said today about russia's election attack and whether there was coordination between moscow and anybody associated with the trump campaign. here it is. >> the first volume of the report details numerous efforts emanating from russia to influence the election. this volume includes a discussion of the trump campaign's response to this activity as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. >> that was really important. did you hear it? insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. so mueller did not exonerate the president of collusion. you've heard him say "no collusion" over and over? but that's just not true. the fact is, mueller concluded there wasn't enough evidence to charge anybody with conspiracy, not that there was no evidence, there wasn't enough. he didn't say the president was exonerated. again, he didn't say there was no evidence. he said that there was insufficient evidence. he said there wasn't enough evidence for a charge, which, for a man like mueller, who as you saw today, he chooses his words very carefully. so what is he saying there? it sounds like he's saying there was some evidence but not enough. contrast what mueller said today with what the attorney general barr said. >> there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian government's hacking. >> there was insufficient eidence to charge a broader conspiracy. >> danny, rerack that, please. i want you to play it again, okay? let me know when you have it. >> there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian government's hacking. >> there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. >> thank you, danny. did you hear that with your own ears? are you going to believe your own ears or what someone tells you? okay. so the president himself admitted today, tweeting there was insufficient evidence, which is a long way away from 100% exonerated. so was this. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> i want to hear that one again as well, please. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> just if we had confidence that the president had not committed a crime, we would have said so. if we had confidence that the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so. there's no two ways of reading that. if that sounds familiar, then you get a gold star. you know why? because it is right there in mueller's report. it's page 2 of the second volume, and it says, quote, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would have said so. did you read the report? i've been saying every single night pretty much since this report came out, did you read the report? this is the perfect example of why we should read the report. and it's something the attorney general, the president and his defenders cannot spin. they probably don't want you to read the report because then you would have read that. the special counsel flat out saying he and his investigators did not exonerate the president of obstruction of justice, saying if they had confidence, the president of the united states did not commit a crime, they would have said so. they didn't say that. they didn't. and mueller made sure that he said that out loud today. again, i want you to contrast what barr said with what mueller said. here it is. >> the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> and there's more. >> we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. the introduction to the volume 2 of our report explains that decision. it explains that under longstanding department policy, a present president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that, too, is prohibited. a special counsel's office is part of the department of justice, and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider. >> did you fall for the okey-doke initially? drink a bunch of kool-aid? mueller is absolutely clear there that the reason he could not charge the president with obstruction, couldn't even consider charging him, was because the doj guidelines tied his hands. the guidelines that state a sitting president cannot be charged with a federal crime while in office, yet the attorney general, who knew exactly what mueller had said in his report, danced around it in his congressional testimony. >> in your press conference, you said that you asked the special counsel whether he would have made a charging decision or recommend charges on obstruction, but for the office of legal counsel's opinion on charging sitting presidents and that the special counsel made clear that was not the case. so, mr. barr, is that an accurate description of your conversation with the special counsel? >> yes, he reiterated several times in a group meeting that he was not saying that but for the olc opinion, he would have found obstruction. >> what mueller was saying was that he couldn't even consider charging the president specifically because of the regulations against charging a sitting president. so why investigate at all? mueller hinted today at the reason. >> first the opinion explicitly permits the investigation of a sitting president because it is important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents available. among other things, that evidence could be used if there were co-conspirators who could be charged now. and second, the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> a process other than the criminal justice system. there's only another process. come on, think. critical thinking. it sounds like the special counsel is calling for congress to pick up where he left off. that process has a name. it begins with the letter "i." impeachment. mueller may not have said the "i" word, but you can believe nancy pelosi is hearing it from all sides. >> nothing is off the table, but we do want to make such a compelling case, such an ironclad case that even the republican senate which at the time seems to be an objective jury and will be convinced of the path we have to take as a country. >> okay, so there is so much confusion out there, so much spinning, let me tell you. here's where we are tonight. after two years of silence, robert mueller has finally spoken to the american people. he says he did not exonerate the president. he implies the rest is up to congress. and we all know what that means. and he says he doesn't want to say anymore about this. he doesn't want to testify to congress about his report. with all due respect, though, to the special counsel and the hard work of his office, i'm not sure that that will ultimately be his call to make. you know why? because i just want to show you the perfect example of why he should, okay? this may be you. i know a lot of people watch this, the top of the show, to hear my take and then they go on social media or they yell at their buddies and friends, maybe even people who are at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. this is why it's important for him to speak and testify. okay? again, this could be you. listen to this voter at a town hall for congressman justin amash just last night. >> i was surprised to hear there was anything negative in the mueller report at all about president trump. i hadn't heard that before, and i mainly listen to the conservative news, and i haven't heard anything negative about that report, and president trump had been exonerated. >> hadn't heard, mainly listens to conservative news. what does that say to you about trump tv and all of those, the echo chamber out there, all the people who are carrying water for this president? listen, i don't mean to demean anything or say anything negative about that voter because she's doing what many people do. they listen to news that just reaffirms their own beliefs. she had no idea. maybe that's why it was important for the attorney general and the president to get that narrative out there before they even released the report, which a lot of people said, no, fully exonerated. the president, no collusion. that voter, who cares enough about what is going on in this country, to go to a town hall had no idea that the president has not been exonerated. think about that. that is because the spin is drowning out the facts. again, it is why attorney general barr did what he did. it's why the president does what he does. it's why the president's state-run television network airs and amplifies it all without question. and it shows you why it is so important for robert mueller to speak out again, to testify, to tell us the facts out loud. speaker of the house nancy pelosi is between a rock and a hard place right now, trying to stall members of her party who are calling for impeachment. congresswoman sheila jackson lee joins me next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded fajitas. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. with licensed agents available 24/7. it's not just easy. it's having-a-walrus-in-goal easy! roooaaaar! it's a walrus! ridiculous! yes! nice save, big guy! good job duncan! way to go! 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>> absolutely not. i think it's crucial that mr. mueller comes before the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee, and frankly i believe mr. mueller is a man of integrity. no one likes to be questioned, no one likes an inquisition, but he is a man of duty. and ongoing discussions have not ceased with respect to the chairman of the judiciary committee and mr. mueller and his representatives. he now is an individual who is no longer employed, though there is certainly some argument about executive privilege, but we're finding that is getting weaker and weaker, and mr. mueller can make the determination himself as to how he will come to the committee. it is something striking about a voice of a person who has not chosen to make his voice the story. mr. mueller has worked quietly and diligently for two years. he's not engaged in any open discussion but serious investigation. and i believe that his voice before the judiciary committee seated at that table with members objectively and effectively questioning him, and it will be the question to the republicans as to whether or not they want to make a buffoonery of this or whether they want to do the bidding of the american people which is question mr. mueller fairly and have him answer questions in the mode in which he chooses to do so. >> will you subpoena him if you have to? >> pardon me? >> will you subpoena him if you have to? >> we like to leave that discussion, don, not to be the discussion. we'd like to say that we're in discussions with him and that we hope that we will see him in front of the committee soon. >> congresswoman, respectfully -- before we run out of time, i just want to talk to you about this resolution because i think it's a very important thing what you did, okay? you recently introduced a resolution of investigation as an interim step toward impeachment. you mentioned next steps earlier, and i said i was going to get to them, and i want to make sure i do. how would that work, and would it satisfy the increasing calls for impeachment? >> well, it's the eighth row of page 396. thank you so much. let me talk very quickly. i have voted for impeachment before in other issues before the house. so i'm not afraid of it, but i know it and i understand the consternation between the leadership and others. it is the resolution of investigation. it instructs the house judiciary committee and obviously we are investigating, to investigate to determine if there is misconduct by the president of the united states. if that misconduct is found, we then exercise our article 1, section 2, clause 5 powers. it gives a bifurcated bite of the apple. it is a step in the direction of holding the president accountable. it gives the house the power to vote and to have a vote on the question of the investigation. a much more stringent investigation. and then the instruction to the judiciary committee is simply to determine if there is a misconduct on the part of the president. mr. mueller gave nine issues of obstruction, but it would give us the opportunity to be as open to the american people as possible. we would hope then that mr. mcgahn and others who have chosen to not regard our invite in the way that it should, even though there are processes that we're going to use, would be before our committee. so i believe it is an appropriate method, it is appropriate for discussion by all members, it does not negate other investigations and other committees, and certainly it does not negate the cry we've been hearing. but what it does do is give the american people time to catch up. the impeachment is a political process. they have to catch up. we are their servants. we act at their behest. we also have character and responsibility and the integrity of the rule of law. so the combinations need to come together. i think that they can come together and we can do what's right on behalf of the american people. that is our only task, to do what's right on behalf of the american people, and as you have said earlier, to cease the attack on the elections coming up in 2020. >> congresswoman sheila jackson lee, appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. reverend barber says hello. >> thank you very much. tell him i said hello back. i appreciate you. we rarely hear from robert mueller, so what made him speak up today? 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and so all those moving parts came to a head today, as we saw, where bob mueller summarized his findings in a way that said, look, here's the report. read it for yourself as you've been encouraging viewers to do since it was provided to the attorney general and to the public then, and to say it's up to you to make your own determination. don't rely on what people like me or you or anybody else says, read the report and see what findings you come up with, what conclusions, and then he obviously, in my mind, teed it up for congress and the courts to move forward with it. and how that's done is obviously now up to congress. >> john, i just want you to listen to this from mueller and then we'll talk. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> was he telling congress impeachment is the only way forward? >> i sure think he was teeing that up as the most viable option. i would take what he said a little bit differently, that there may have been evidence, he found insufficient evidence to indict the president, but clearly, at least my reading and understanding of what he said, is that there was some evidence. the question was because of the doj policy as opposed to the constitution, but as opposed to the doj policy of not indicting a sitting president, then the normal process would be if there was sufficient evidence to proceed with something, then the constitution calls for an indication of potential impeachment proceedings, as you've articulated. i think that's what he was saying today in about as direct and plain terms other than saying, congress, i've done my work. it's up to you now to seek impeachment. >> if you want to do this, right, right. i have to ask you, i know that you support him, but does mueller have an obligation to testify publicly, if only about the substance of his report? >> well, so he obviously did that today, and what i would go back to is what was his agreement with rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who asked him to serve after then-attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. >> i think it makes a difference when you actually see someone sitting there and answering questions, even if he answers questions with the information that he has today. do you think it's important that he testify and that america sees it and hears it? >> yeah, i think there is a huge appetite, obviously, for that, and i think eventually he may do that. i think it comes down to the ground rules that he and the house would agree on and whether that's in a closed session, which would not be obviously open, or would it be in an open session where he is avoiding that in my mind because they say, look, i've got a 448-page report here. let the facts speak for themselves, because my take on the facts are not as important as what the facts say. so as he mentioned today in his press conference, let the facts speak for themselves because they are the most powerful evidence. now, the conclusions from that evidence is a different matter. so the lens that people look through at that evidence through obviously frames the outcome they will come up with. so i can see where there would be great interest, there is great interest in him testifying. my concern would be that it would become a political circus and the report itself would not become the focus of attention, but it would be his take on it, and that's what he avoids in my experience with working with him. >> thank you, sir. >> he doesn't want to be the center of the story, he wants to be, let the report speak for itself. >> and he has said as much. we shall see in the future if he does it if they ask him, if there's a subpoena or what have you, and we'll definitely have you back. john pistole, thank you very much. you can look for john's op-ed it's been usa today. it's tomorrow morning. thanks again. we'll be right back. straight f's best plant scientists comes miracle-gro performance organics. it's miracle-gro's next big thing. ♪ ♪ organic plant food and soil that finally work. ♪ ♪ and work... and work. ♪ ♪ and yes we did say organic. for twice the bounty, guaranteed. miracle-gro performance organics. organics finally grow up. and up, and up. wenit gave me a leafput in the names almost right away. first. within a few days, i went from knowing almost nothing to holy crow, i'm related to george washington. i didn't know that using ancestry would be so easy. s... s...u... s...u...v... these letters used to mean something. letters earned in backwoods, high hills, and steep dunes. but somewhere along the way, suvs became pretenders, not pioneers. but you never forgot the difference, and neither did we. 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. special counsel robert mueller finally spoke out today. he made it clear he did not exonerate the president and that congress has some work to do. so now what? let's discuss with frank bruni and author of "the shadow war" available everywhere. thank you, everyone, for joining us this evening. what a news day. you know, we have them quite often but this one was particularly momentous, shall we say. we're going to start with you. mueller said if he had confidence that the president did not commit a crime he would have said so. how important was it to hear mueller say that himself? >> listen, it was in the report but the fact is most americans did not read the report. you have a sitting attorney general and a president of the united states that misled on the findings of that report, including on that crucial issue there as to what kept the special counsel from indicting the president for obstruction of justice. bill barr made a public case that, well, it was a whole host of things that de-emphasized the role of justice department policy. bob mueller came out and says, well, in fact, as i said in the report, but now you're hearing it straight from my mouth, it was really the policy that drove the decision, not the evidence. that's important. we have not heard from him for two years since the start of this investigation. we were waiting to hear from him. the american public had a right, i think, frankly, to hear from him. he chose those words and it was not only one time that he made that point clear. he said it three or four different ways, and i think that's impactful. >> barr told reporters the day the mueller report was released, he said mueller couldn't reach a conclusion on obstruction. that's not what mueller said today. >> no, and i think this is why mueller spoke today. it was his way of saying that the attorney general sits on a throne of lies. he said it in a much nicer way, but basically he directly contradicted exactly what jim just said, that he made this decision based on the olc memo, that if he could exonerate the president, he wouldn't, and he also said, this was no hoax, russia did, in fact, attack the united states. this was no coup, that we had a question we had to investigate, that any domestic national security agency would need to investigate, and he basically disspelled all of these myths that have been put out there. >> a witch hunt and on and on. frank, i want you to watch what happened today. this is when a reporter asked barr about this. watch. >> attorney general barr, robert mueller said today that president trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice. why did you exonerate him? >> he wouldn't answer. we know the answer. >> it's because he doesn't have a good answer. >> he just walked away. >> i don't know if he was still acquainted with his integrity when he went into this job, but he's not acquainted with it anymore. he has been shameful in his spinning of everything in donald trump's favor, and one of the reasons mueller came out today and said what he did was he had to correct the record as pertains to what the attorney general has said. the attorney general has lied about this and spun it the moment this report came out, and that's becoming ever clearer to more and more people, and that's why you saw his back as he walked out the door because he doesn't have a lot to say himself. >> he misled the american people. >> this is not the first time bob mueller made that clear. he wrote not one, but two letters, where he called out the attorney general and told him in no uncertain terms, he put it on the air multiple times today, that your summary did not reflect -- and i forget the exact wording -- but did not reflect the meaning and conclusions of the report. this is the third time the special counsel has gone on the record saying, mr. barr, your conclusions do not fit my conclusions. >> something else that's really important about hearing from mueller today, we haven't heard his voice in two years, and we have been told that he is the architect, the captain of a witch hunt, that he is some partisan hothead out to get the president. it was impossible to look at that man today, to listen to his subdued voice and to have that image of him. and so i think there was a lot of power in simply seeing the subject of all of this spin and lies as someone who is not some partisan hothead. >> we have a lot to talk about. how important is it to hear from robert mueller, is it important, because congress wants him to come in and testify. also what the president is saying about all of this. we'll talk about that, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded fajitas. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. applebee's new loaded fajitas. do your asthma symptoms ever hold you back? 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>> absolutely. if the day that this has been presented to the attorney general and mull r gave the statement he gave today. we would have had a completely different trajectory. and it shows how the way that we selectively present information can actually shape different realities. that people live in. here's the deal, don. if we don't have a shared reality based on an established set of facts which is what the report is about. we cannot sustain a democracy. and this is basically what russian information the idea of it is about to create so many realities that people don't know what's true anymore. and just give up. >> this is exactly the thing that you write about in your book. the shadow war. if you want to find out about these and beyond. pick up a copy. it's fascinating. i have been watching your interviews and reading schas mu as i can. >> you have to finish it. >> thank you. i appreciate it. impeachment would backfire for the democrats. but is that really true or is it just team trump playing defense? 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