Election. And i cant believe it. But Lindsey Graham last night at maralago said he wanted to continue investigating hillary clinton. And the clinton emails. Its just its absolutely rid its absolutely ridiculous. And i think the democrats have a constitutional responsibility to continue to conduct oversight of this administration. And just because the republicans didnt do it doesnt mean the democrats shouldnt. Thats exactly what they should do and let the facts like Robert Mueller let the facts lead them to their conclusions. So stick with us, if you can. Just want to reset for those who might be just joining us. It is 5 00 p. M. In washington, where were following and in new york and on the east coast entirely. Where were following breaking news. Last hour we received a fourpage summary of the Mueller Report. The summary was provided by Attorney General bill barr. Before boarding air force one, the president stopped to speak to reporters about those
findings. He said it was a complete
today after an unexpected twist in the donald trump classified documents case. in the new indictment filed thursday, federal prosecutors accused trump of attempting to alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence. inducing someone else to do so, and showing classified documents to visitors at his golf club in bedminster, new jersey. the new york times suggesting the new charge highlights long running obstruction questions and the new yorker, with this take. the boss and his botched cover-up. joining me now is peter baker, msnbc political analyst, chief white house correspondent for the new york times, and coauthor of the divider, trump in the white house 2017 to 2021. welcome, my friend. hey, by the way, peter, your book coauthor and wife wrote that last one. and the indictment record says,
obstruction of justice discussed in the mueller report and the obstruction of congress in terms of the failure to respond to subpoenas, allow witnesses to testify. so a narrow impeachment based on ukraine, a broader impeachment with obstruction, that s a question nancy pelosi, jerry nadler and adam schiff largely are going to have to resolve. david gergen, because i ll ask you, david, politically speaking, what s the wise move, do you think, from democrats, more limited or broader as jeffrey was just describing? i used to think it would be the more limited option because that i thought that would be easier to understand. i think it s been harder to explain it to people. there are so many different figures who are introduced over these hearings. the democrats did an awfully good job amassing the evidence but i m not sure they got through to the public on giving them a convincing narrative of what happened. under those circumstances i would be exploring whether you bring in the obs
obstruction of justice discussed in the mueller report and the obstruction of congress in terms of the failure to respond to subpoenas, allow witnesses to testify. so a narrow impeachment based on ukraine, a broader impeachment with obstruction, that s a question nancy pelosi, jerry nadler, and adam schiff largely are going to have to resolve. and david gergen because i m going to ask you, david, politically speaking, what s the wise move, do you think, from democrats? more limited or broader as jeffrey was just describing? i used to think it would be the more limited option because that i thought that would be easier to understand. i think it s been harder to explain it to people. there are so many different figures who are introduced over these hearings. the democrats did an awfully good job amassing the evidence, but i m not sure they got through to the public on giving them a convincing narrative of what happened. under those circumstances i would be exploring whether you b
aaron zebley and andrew wei weissman. they may feel less constraineded about criticizing trump. i agree. anybody working on the obstruction questions in the investigation would be an excellent witness. i also think we talk about mcgahn, but if we brought donaldson to the hill with her records we would be a long way down the road to having the details. if trump doesn t like notes he must hate her. professor? listen, what i respect about mueller and his team is that there were hardly any leaks during the process. so there are a lot of people who i think not only respected mueller as their boss, but they actually want to uphold the tenets of the constitution. there are a lot of people in washington, d.c. who were either nonpartisan or who were part of the republican party who recognized that what s happening