do you think the possibility is that democrats regain some of their mojo around this sort of clear-cut evidence of criminality? see, i respect the opinion here of the great counsel. but i am very concerned about the politics of this. and that is because the war that will be waged when the republicans get maybe half the time or more than an hour of the time will be on the investigation of the investigation. and mueller bashing. the attorney general bill barr has mueller bashed with the best of them. he said he didn t think his legal analysis stood up. they had to apply the right law to his findings. he blamed him for not coming to a finding, basically that he failed as special counsel. that as we know the special counsel wrote a letter very, very, very unprecedented and unheard of if you know bob mueller to put something and
will be accountable or not. just like when criminals cross the line, it s not an indictment on their whole neighborhoods. bad people know not to do bad things and criminal things when they know they will pay for it. otherwise they feel they will getpass and that they re above the law. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i ll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, deadline: white house with my colleague nicolle wallace. hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york with the case now closed on whether or not donald trump is a racist, and any doubts about whether he plans to run on the themes of racial an mists and division erased, democrats today signaling their intention to focus the nation s attention on donald trump s criminal conduct. as democrats prepare for the arrival of special counsel robert mueller on capitol hill
report came out, it said the report totally exonerates the president. and barr s summary suggested that was all right. but now that we actually have the report, it says the reverse. on just the first couple pages mueller said, look, if i could have cleared the president of obstruction of justice, i would have. that is devastating the implication lies in the air, and that s what we should be talking about wednesday. joyce, i have always felt like it was never when you are elected after the country has heard you talk about grabbing women in the bleep, you aren t someone who can be knocked over by a single scandal. the country has baked in your deviance. the country has baked into the equation all of your shortcomings. and they kind of went with a mystery box and picked you anyway. but if you take on top of donald trump s role of orchestrating and green-lighting a racist chant, next week the country will hear from robert mueller, the country i think 54% of
i think that that will be powerful. i don t think people will lose the point that this is someone who believes in the country, in the rule of law, and in public service. let me go through some of what they re going to focus on because it s been a little while since we and we ve spent a lot of time on this. but let s go through some of what democrats plan to explore with robert mueller. first, just reminding people what the law is that he broke. this is a description of the law around obstruction, why it s a crime to obstruct in any investigation. the attempt to remove the special counsel, that would be these efforts, these first two flashpoints where he tried to get his white house counsel to fire mueller, would qualify as an obstructive act if it would naturally obstruct the investigation in any grand jury proceedings that might flow from the inquiry. a fact finder would need to consider whether the act had the potential to delay further action in the investigation, chill the acti
next week, their plan for his day of wall-to-wall testimony is becoming clearer if donald trump were anyone but the president, he would be charged with the crimes mueller uncovered. the democratic staffer and the house judiciary committee tells nbc news, quote, what s important is there is truly shocking evidence of criminal misconduct by the president, not once, but again and again and again that would result in any other american being criminally charged in a multiple-count indictment. those multiple counts would include the following flash points in the obstruction of justice investigation where democrats are planning to focus most of their attention next week. one, donald trump repeatedly directing his white house counsel don mcgahn to fire robert mueller. two, telling mcgahn to lie about being asked to fire robert mueller when the news media reported on it. three, directing former campaign aid cory learn an dow ski to