There was substantial evidence of criminal intent by the president , in his view. Were going to see bob mueller walk out and were going to be watching for is he alone, is mr. Barr behind him or in the room, what are the first words that bob mueller wants to publicly utter . A man who is reticent, sometimes to a fault his supporters say. He clearly has something to say. Does he in any way elude to or cite what we know to be major disagreements with mr. Barr about what mueller found in his investigation and about evidence about sitting the president. Here we have for the first time publicly in more than two years Robert Mueller. Thank you for being here. Two years ago the Acting Attorney General asked me to sv as Special Counsel. And he created the special
counsels office. The appointed directed the office to investigate russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated
also making it very clear again the parameters that he believed he had to operate within, existing doj policy, as well as constitutional the constitutional framework for holding a president accountable did not allow him to move forward with that charge or indictment, and i think he sees that there is work yet to be done on obstruction of justice. ari, you were wanting to make a point about congress and democrats here. yeah, i think it s important to look at this in the broader context. some people say, craig, why if there s substantial evidence against the sitting president, why doesn t he get charged, why is he above the law? there are good answers to this which we ve been exploring, the rules treat the president differently because he s the officer taking care the laws are faithfully executed. i think we ve been speaking on the substance here for the last