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Core of the government s effort to strike at the truth and hold wrong doers accountable. let me say a word about the report. the report has two parts, addressing the two main issues we were asked to investigate. the first volume 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. and in a second volume, the report describes the results and analysis of our obstruction of justice investigation involving the president. the order appointing the special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation. and we conducted that investigation and we kept the office of the acting attorney ....
Potentially it would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge. so that was justice department policy. those were the principles under which we operated and from them we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime. that is the office s that is the office s final position, and we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the president. we conducted an independent criminal investigation and reported the results to the attorney general. as required by department regulations. the attorney general then concluded that it was appropriate to provide our report to congress and to the american people. at one point in time i requested that certain portions of the report be released. the attorney general preferred ....
Footnote one line in a footnote about the business of whether congress impeachment, he didn t use the word today. but it did seem interesting to me that in this relatively short summary of a 440 plus page report he did choose to say this. the opinion, meaning the report says the constitution requires means the justice department s opinion on whether you can charge a president requires a process over than the criminal justice system to formally accuse the president of wrong doing. i thought it was interesting he chose to put that in there. pete williams outside the department of justice, thanks as always, pete. let me bring in congressman eric swalwell now, a member of the how judiciary committee, also a 2020 presidential democratic candidate. we ll start with what pete mentioned there, this idea that bob mueller does not want to ....
He s saying don t lose sight of this, the fact we re talking about obstruction of justice and the president should not go unattended to. it is at the heart of everything that our justice system and our democracy is about, i think he s calling attention to that. i think it s important that he praise the integrity of the prosecutors and investigators who work with him. we don t hear it often enough from the department of justice but you heard it from mueller today. a quick reminder here. this is the sound bite that probably is going to get a great deal of attention from robert mueller, which is what he said a few moments ago as it related to evidence against the president. take a listen. we do not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. the introduction to the volume two of our report explains that decision. it explains that under long-standing department policy a president cannot be charged ....
Counsel s office. the appointed directed the office to investigate russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. this included investigating any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the trump campaign. now i have not spoken publicly during our investigation. i m speaking out today because our investigation is complete. the attorney general has made the report on our investigation largely public. we are formally closing the special counsel s office, and as well i m resigning from the department of justice to return to private life. i ll make a few remarks about the results of our work. but beyond these few remarks it is important that the office s written work speak for itself. let me begin where the appointment order begins. ....