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Weren t always truthful. i would say generally. so right there mueller is saying you know if you take his answer at face value, right that there were times the president was not being truthful in written answers which is a stunning thing to say, it got the president extremely angry. it was the moment of his exchanges this afternoon. let me play what he said when asked about your exchange with mr. mueller. he didn t say that at all. you re untruthful. you are untruthful when you ask that question. when you ask that question you re untruthful. you know who else is untruthful you know who else is untruthful, his aides. i don t know if had you seen that yet congresswoman demings pointing his finger and pointing at a reporter you re untruthful for asking that. clearly your exchange with mueller about the president clearly he didn t say he was untrulkt truthful in the report. you got him to say something ....
Mueller is asked a specific question he generally answered and generally was able to sort of work through it. there was a lot of word salad in my view in some of the questions today. and even i read the report multiple times and trying to follow this i had to think through what was happening. what i think you see with bob mueller when he he is going to respond on facts but he didn t want to agree to other people s conclusions. whether it was the republicans or the democrats. ic i hear your facts but i m not sure i agree with where you re trying to take it. he didn t want to be a partisan for either side on the factual questions you saw the damning things from the report. there was a moment in the morning with congressman ted li. big moment. big moment or big mistake i wasn t sure. we all start talking about it. the bottom line was he told congressman liu he didn t indict president trump because of the olc opinion. let me play the exchange and then when he was forced to walk ....
Seek the grand jury material from the mueller report as well as enforce the subpoena against don mcgahn. moments before she did meet with her entire democratic caucus and at least one member i spoke to especially on the impeachment thing that s equal lly as important to what she did not say. she said she indicated some openness on impeachment but certainly remains officially unmoved in her position. thank you very much. i want to go to our chief political correspondent dana bash. let s start with new reporting i know you have on this meeting. what s going on in side that room? i have manu. she explained what happened at the press conference. the speaker had an meeting. manu and i were told there was a robust discussion about impeachment with member after member pressing the leadership, what next? are we going to do now? ....
That was not in the report. were you surprised did he it. we know that special counsel s office tried over a year to sit down and do an in person interview which the president refused. the president chose written answers which he had a lot of time with him and his legal time to decide what to say and still could not always find the truth in his written responses. i believe director mueller was extremely clear that there were times in the president s written answers that he was not truthful. and really, erin that comes at no surprise to anybody. well, and i think we should point out my kwount was 35 times i believe in the written answers he said i don t recall and i don t remember. and at the least it would seem some of those times that s not the case. i want to play another big moment you had with mueller during the judiciary committee congresswoman demings here you are. did other witnesses lie to you. i think there are probably a spectrum of witnesses in terms of those who are ....
Members of congress in a better understanding of what was in the report than he did. did mueller help republicans today? right, today was a big moment. a lot of people hadn t read the report. they see mueller. the republicans are crying out now informs a disaster for the democrats. it wasn t just mueller s hesitancy but in fact the substance he wasn t there. they came prepared to fight. i hadn t expected that. they were more coordinated. they presented things frankly we haven t talked about much on cnn aspects of this on the right. we haven t visited them because we don t put much stock in a lot of what they argue. nonls i did not think it was a disaster. after all the short come comings, i thought the democrats did a solid job especially the members working with mueller in effect telling the stories about obstruction, the story the much more credible come to life kind of story that they had now ....