much later and calls a press conference and says, if i had pitched the game this is what would ve happened. it was a real let down and a violation of the attorney general guidelines. prosecutors are not supposed to do in the court of public opinion what they can t do in the court of law and i think bob mueller let us down. sean: john solomon, great report. i tweeted it out. joining us now with more reaction, republican congressman jim jordan. he watched the events unfold today and you just heard john s report. your reaction? the first thing is if the report speaks for itself, why not do a press conference? and in the 9 minutes and nine seconds, we learned there was no collusion and no obstruction after 22 months, 19 lawyers, 500 witnesses, 2800 subpoenas, it was the same darn conclusion so that to me was a big take away. if the report speaks for itself,
conference and says, if i played gin the game, this is what woud happen. it was a letdown, violation of the attorney general guidelines. prosecutors are not supposed to do inne the court of public opinion what they can do in a court of law. t i think bob mueller let us down. sean: john solomon, great report. i tweeted it out. joining us now with more reaction, all the breaking news, republican congressman jim jordan. jim, you watched the events unfold today. you just heard john s report. your reaction? the first thing is, bob mueller if the report speaks for itself, why did you have to do a press conference? what did we learn in the 9 minutes and 39 seconds of this press conference? we learned there was no collusion, no obstruction, after after, watt, 22 months, $30 million, 19 lawyers, 500 witnesses, 2800 subpoenas. it was the same drawn conclusion. that, to me, with the take aways if the report speaks for itself, why did you have to do a nine
because you ve got to keep the rulebook in your top drawer. i lived as a counterintelligence agent with the attorney general guidelines in the top drawer of my desk and referred to them daily until i memorized entire portions of them. that s how heavily regulated it is. so, any notion that some agent can open some case willy nil ly against a president is misguided. the level of review, the department of justice review, the number of lawyers that would have to have touched this to allow this to happen is almost immeasurable. so i want to try to dispel that nation, that there would have to be multiple points of failure, multiple people in the conspiracy to even open this case and it s just wholly unrealistic to think that happened. we are so grateful to our guests tonight, to michael schmidt, of course, for starting us all off. barbara, chuck, frank, our thanks. and coming up for us, as our coverage continues, the night s
i think it s important for the american people to understand the counterintelligence and intelligence work in the fbi is by far the most regulated part of the fbi. there are agents who don t even want to work counterintelligence because you got to keep the rule book in your top drawer. i lived as a counterintelligence agent with the attorney general guidelines in the top drawer of my desk and referred to them daily until i had memorized entire portions of them. that s how heavily regulated it is. any notion that some agent can withy nilly open a case on the president of the united states is misguided. the level of review, the department of justice review, the number of lawyers that would have to have touched this to allow this to happen is almost immeasurable. so i want to try to dispel that nation, that there would have to be multiple points of failure, multiple people in the conspiracy to even open this case and it s just wholly unrealistic to think that happened. we re so grateful
because you got to keep the rule book in your top drawer. i lived as a counterintelligence agent with the attorney general guidelines in the top drawer of my desk, until i memorized entire portions of them. that s how heavily regulated it is. the fact that some can willy-nilly open a president on a case is misguided. the level of review, the department of justice review, the number of lawyers that would have to have touched this to allow this to happen is almost immeasurable. so i want to try to dispel that nation, that there would have to be multiple points of failure, multiple people in the conspiracy to even open this case and it s just wholly unrealistic to think that happened. we re so grateful to our guests tonight and michael schmidt for starting us off and barbara mcquaid and chuck rosenberg and frank, thanks. coming up for us, our coverage continues. the night s other major story,