saw from the attorney general and the special counsel s office was very narrowly limited to the notion that mueller had talked about the olc memo itself as sort of the font from which all of this flowed. but when talking about whether or not mueller was able to indict, he knew going into that that that was the context. so whether or not the olc memo was technically what led to this decision, it was the context that shaped the goal. mueller was very clear that he was leaving this decision up to congress even more clear yesterday in an what some folks initially took away from the report. barr sets up this fake choice that it is a binary yes or no and that is not what bob mueller told us yesterday. matt, do you think there will be steps taken even in the judiciary committee to try to challenge the attorney general now? i think that they might. look, they subpoenaed they asked him to come testify once
yesterday, seemed to be addressing this identify of testifying in public. he seemed to be saying you may want the drama but i ve got no new information. jerry nadler seemed to say we actually heard a lot from robert mueller. i think he did answer a couple of important questions that a lo lot of members had. there s a great many more questions he could answer in front of the intelligence committee behind closed doors. the counter intelligence is a very important one. it goes to the root of how all of this started and could provide more information about what exactly may be to help us explain why the president seemed so close to putin or other major questions like that. it seems to me it s still an open question if adam schiff were to subpoena robert mueller what might happen. that would be have a very different event than robert
i think it s fair inference that bob mueller was referring impeachment to the united states congress. this is as close to as impeachment referral that you could get under the circumstances. robert mueller signal to congress when he could not spark a flurry of calls from several of the 2020 democratic kan candidates. putting more pressure on speaker pelosi and joining me is jay inslee. great to see you again. thank you. i want to talk to you about your signature issue climate change and the awareness you brought to that issue. the centerpiece of your campaign, if you will. i want to ask you reaction to robert mueller, his statement yesterday and the whole question of impeachment being front and center for many of your colleagues. where do you come down?
buttigieg. i think those sentiments are on target. what we have to do to the men and women of armed services is not use them but flank them for their service. i was just in iraq and afghanistan about four weeks ago and one of the opportunities i took was to thank men and women from all our services for what they have done and continue to do. the temptation to use them as problems is something that should be avoided at all costs. based on what you heard from robert mueller yesterday, he started and closed his nine and a half minutes or so of remarks with warnings about russia. at this stage do you think there s enough evidence, for the house, to open up impeachment inquiries? i think the house has to continue their investigations. there s so much other material that would be essential that they have requested the tax
republicans could ride that wave to bring back the house into their control. i think essentially it s going to be really tough for jerry nadler. he really did kind of not answer that question. are you going to subpoena robert mueller? that s a key thing that democrats in the house are going to have to answer. i don t think there s a clear way forward right now. there was a statement from congressman adam schiff. he says we look forward to mueller s testimony before congress. while i understand his reluctance to answer hypotheticals or deviate from the carefully worded conclusions he drew, there s a great many questions he can answer that goes beyond the report. that seems to me to indicate that he s talking about the intelligence community, not necessarily the judiciary and going into that separate track of counter intelligence. i think that s right. i do think that s a very good question because robert mueller,