the investigators couldn t eliminate the possibility that the deleted information would actually reveal more. i think it s very important and hopefully mueller will be asked about this, there is a specific reference to text messages between eric prince and steve bannon that were not accessible by the special counsel and they were coordinating a meeting involving the russians there are a lot of pieces that it s very clear both lack of cooperation by individuals and missing information and i hope that they go through this with mueller. again, i don t think he ll go so far beyond the report but it s a really important piece that mueller didn t have all the pieces of the puzzle and add to the fact that you re dealing with a foreign government and it difficult to get information from abroad, it made it difficult for mueller to do this piece of the investigation. even the fact they noted that in the report i find surprising because he s such a buttoned down type of writer, it almost invi
the investigators couldn t eliminate the possibility that the deleted information would actually reveal more. i think it s very important and hopefully mueller will be asked about this, there is a specific reference to text messages between eric prince and steve bannon that were not accessible by the special counsel and they were coordinating a meeting involving the russians there are a lot of pieces that it s very clear both lack of cooperation by individuals and missing information and i hope that they go through this with mueller. again, i don t think he ll go so far beyond the report but it s a really important piece that mueller didn t have all the pieces of the puzzle and add to the fact that you re dealing with a foreign government and it difficult to get information from abroad, it made it difficult for mueller to do this piece of the investigation. even the fact they noted that in the report i find surprising because he s such a buttoned down type of writer, it almost invi
by the way, mueller is talking to congress. congress doesn t need to recognize any privileges other than the fifth amendment constitutional privilege, so the letter is meaningless. what is more of a challenge is whether mueller is going to do anything other than stick to the words of the report. right. his own self-imposed boundaries are going to be a big challenge for you. let s be honest, you want him to stray from the report. you have questions that the report didn t answer. that s right, and i think we re talking a lot about, you know, hopefully mueller saying the report. that s information being conveyed to the american people who by and large have not read the report. secondarily, he has questions to answer. for the first time ever in the investigation of a president, he chose not to interview that president. anybody who has been in or around or is a prosecutor knows you always interview people to determine what they were
member of congress? that s different from in a jury trial, can you keep asking, the lawyers can keep asking and asking, until they work through a whole thread of common sense argument. we re going to see snippets, speeches that don t actually get anywhere. and i think we ll see the republicans try to create some spector of wrongdoing by virtue of the existence of the very investigation. and i think people need to remember, the whole point of the special counsel was independence. that s why rob rosenstein appointed him, so it would not be politicized. i think there s going to be an attempt to politicize it anyway. hopefully mueller will hold his ground and come across as the person i call it like it is. balls and strikes, i m not on team red, team blue i m on team law. that would be a good message for the american public, even if he just reads summaries to the report. it will be interesting to see if he has a lengthy opening
declined to prosecute for whatever reason. but i think there s a lot of material there that he can explain, and hopefully mueller and rosenstein will encourage him to do so. one more question for you. we know that the doj says a sitting president can t be indicted. pamela mentioned that. so will we learn a great detail about the president s role in all of this, and what happens what happens if there was an attempt to obstruct justice from trump or that he bruobstructed justice? what happens? it could very well be we ll learn enough to start a proceeding to impeach this president. this well could be a precursor of an impeachment proceeding. we have no idea at this point. yeah. there s so much unexplained behavior that hopefully will be addressed by this report. dana, go on. i was just going to say one of the things that john dean just mentioned about, you know, a question that he wants answered is a pretty explosive statement to make, but is a