americans did not read the mueller report, and he also knows that yesterday was a big deal. the russian special counsel dominated the tv news, standing between the flags of the trump justice department delivering a ten-minute just-the-facts reading of his bottom line conclusions. most damning, the special counsel making clear on camera what he could not say, that the president of the united states is not a crook. 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 toss whether the president did commit a crime. americans searched mueller on google more than 500,000 times wednesday. that sparked an interest and americans hearing from mueller for the first time in two years, it explains why the president spent 17 minutes on the south lawn today. president wants the last word or words and doesn t care if the words include lie after lie
around the team. all of them caught offguard by this. thankfully nobody was hurt and part of the team join us with the details of the close encounter next hour on america s newsroom. unbelievable footage there coming amid a violent weekend. dozens of tornadoes touching down around the central states. damaging homes and knocking out power with millions of americans in the south and midwest bracing for even more severe weather today. jon: more reaction pouring in after an explosive comment from a republican lawmaker. justin amash suggesting he could get behind an effort to begin impeachment proceedings against president trump. the michigan republican is the first in his party to break ranks over the mueller report and how attorney general william barr came up with his bottom line conclusions. amash tweeting contrary to barr s portrayal it looks like
in the new new yorker, could obama s syria diplomacy lead to war. some of your bottom line conclusions are sort of depressing. well, if you think about the red line before we started talking to the russians about completely disarming syria of chemical weapons, the red line for obama was if assad used these weapons, right? that s what led to obama talking about military force and we know the story from there, the russians intervened with this last minute plan after john kerry s statements and now the u.s. is in this conversation with russia and syria about completely disarming the country of its chemical weapons. that s good, right? that s great. who would not want that. if we could accomplish that. you look at the u.n. resolution the french, the uk and the u.s. drafted earlier in the week, it basically calls for the complete declaration of these chemical weapons and disarmament under the threat of serious consequences. so it seems to me the red line has now moved from assad