Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Or distorted what happened in the election campaign. But what is Donald Trumps core point that he wants to say even more than no collusion, no collusion, no collusion . It didnt change a vote. So this is a problem. So if they had stepped up their game in 2016 and the Obama Administration was asleep at the switch, maybe they did change some votes. Trump is not stupid well, i wont say stupid or not. Trump wants to deny that russia could have had an influence in 2016 and theyre saying russia could well have had an influence. I understand that some of us are being too cynical about this briefing, but again without the president on it, how do you take it credibly. If makes a big difference. If it were the president , it would be Something Else. The white house continues to want to say and they say this repeatedly, this administration has been toughe
came back for the second round this afternoon. he said that is actually not the case. he said the case is that we did not find the president obstructed justice. in other words we were not able to make a conclusion on that. in fact, what we learned today is that both are false. the president can t say he was exonerated and mr. mueller can t say that he exonerated the president because that is not how it works in terms of prosecution, which i know you well know. what mr. mueller said was he went through the elements, the three elements of obstruction of justice and in five episodes all three elements were satisfied. but he did say was he didn t make a charging decision, a traditional charging decision because of the olc memorandum, but there is overwhelming evidence that was presented. martha: i have to dispute that because of what mr. mueller said. he said that it was part of the decision but that it was not that there were other factors
answer about what jared kushner did or this answer here in the run- run-up, at that point does this then does it make it that much harder for the president s team to fight this subpoena? it makes it harder, but in these situations, in these executive privilege claims and counterclaims, there are no blanket assertions. the president can t make a blanket assertion, and mueller can t say can t make a blanket assertion and say we demand we need all of this just because we re running a criminal investigation. so he needs to say in each instance, this is why i need to find out about the trump tower meeting. and he s in a much stronger position there, you know, before the election. on the obstruction part, does he really need the president? i mean he s putting together a it looks like they re widening it out with the tweets, connecting actions, they have testimony of potentially reince priebus and don mcgahn of saying when they briefed him, for instance, on when did the president