he is widely expected to win a second term after winning a referendum last year to extend term limits but the opposition has reported irregularities at several polling stations and has called on the people to mobilize against the government has more now from the capital moroni. the elections in a. contest that have been in the proportional stages of becoming more complicated opposition candidates contesting against incumbent president does that come out and that will not accept the results of the election saying they've been massively regularities they say have been the tough love books with the bottle papers for the incumbent president and i've asked their supporters to have to parliament buildings a few hundred meters behind me to stop these bottled boxes from entering the marshall vault hollings center where the final results will be amongst opposition candidates are saying this is nothing short of a coup on pilling to the african union to intervene because they've been incidents

of violence in and through on one of the islands that make up the whole models and the opposition. more than a dozen polling stations where they say there will be cases of stuff in the books is. the current president. of course these elections have been from the beginning opposition candidates have been expressing very little hope that there will be free and fair i'm now with what happened today many people are seeing us to wish and where this country could go back to these unstable past because that . brought the country together and probably created the stability thousand witnessed in recent years has been removed by the sort of foot and the rotational presidency between. the three islands that make up for mortals now that is what it

does take a many people obviously for this country's future still to come in this half hour washington on tenterhooks says u.s. lawmakers wait for details of open relays reports on russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election and the bruising week for britain's prime minister ends with growing speculation of a long ouster. we got something of a change in the weather across central parts of europe over the next couple days been quite remember across a good part of central europe this area clattered right that same stormy area that affected the norwegians see through the weekend fast pushing further south with this area cloud that will introduce some wet weather and at times some of the

wintry weather center cooler weather down across the northern parts of germany for example pushing down towards vienna pushing across into world war so coming in behind thirteen celsius for london brighton breezy i think sums it up here at will feel a little on the cool side level self just for paris on monday no go into to say things do start to quieten down high pressure starts just not just way back in across those western areas of europe that are a six for the southwards in these for say the balkans italy seeing some of that disturbed weather as we go on into the middle part of the week want to see showers into central parts of the mediterranean but for many it's still fine and dry athens at around twenty degrees celsius some of the temperature there too for cairo but a dry weather there across most parts of africa for the time big pushing up into morocco will see somewhat to what the coming in as we go on into cheese day turning it into colder by that stage for this.

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the lead in preliminary election results it's the first parliamentary polls in the country five years ago many expect the opposition to win the vote drought in kenya is threatening a million people with starvation cattle and sheep herders in the arid regions of the country's northwest are the worst affected and the official death toll from cycling. has risen again bringing the overall number of dead to more than seven hundred people the storm has forced thousands from their homes and regional governments fear an outbreak of. twenty four hours after trevor a battered australia's northwestern coast residents are being hit by another powerful storm cycle veronica has been described as a usually powerful and slow moving it's currently staggering along the coastline bringing heavy rains and winds of around the hundred fifty kilometers an hour and is expected to linger for up to twelve hours. of red alert warning people to stay

indoors essentially. it's not one of those. quickly. be patient and i repeat the patient. bride has more now from port hedland. so i clone veronica has made landfall with full force it has built out to sea again in gain strength and intensity and has been battering this long stretch of west australian coastline in addition to its stalled force winds it's also been accompanied by a storm surge which has started to inundate low lying areas along this coastline it's a problem of flooding that will be very worse in the coming days by the to run chill rain associated with this weather system some areas are being told to expect several hundred millimeters in the coming days people here were told to expect an

extreme weather events that is down what they are dealing with in addition to the flooding in the coming days they will be assessing the damage from this. riot police in morocco have broken up a demonstration by teachers protesting against their contracts and demanding full benefits and pensions like other public servants the protesters in the capital the bat had planned to spend the night outside parliament before joining a larger demonstration called by opposition parties several rallies started on wednesday on the eighth anniversary of morocco's arab spring protests. iraq's parliament has sacked the governor of new neveh province after an overloaded ferry capsized killing around the hundred people now follow my the i also was removed from the post after instructions from iraq's prime minister the boat was carrying families across the river when it sank home first the testers have blamed the

government for the accident throwing stones and shoes at the president and former governor when they visited the site on friday. a cruise ship that ran into trouble in rough seas off the coast of norway on saturday has finally reached port hundreds of the passengers on board the viking sky had to be airlifted to safety after the luxury liner developed engine problems close to the rocky coast line more than twenty people are being treated in hospital so nigga reports. the remaining passages aboard the viking sky came off the ship in the port of boulder only a day earlier they narrowly escaped disaster. this was the view from inside the cruise ship. before the alarm went off the mayday call was put out on saturday as the vessel drifted in the norwegian c.

more than thirteen hundred passengers and crew were aboard a luxury cruise liner when its engines failed during stormy weather it was battered by eight metre waves just off the coast of norway here the weather is known to be fierce and the shallow waters are renowned for their reefs. throughout the night rescue services managed four hundred seventy nine people most of those on board were elderly tourists mainly from the united states and the u.k. a few escaped the light injuries many were left traumatised by the experience. or. or. tugboats one in front and the other behind the ship towards the poor city of boulder the passengers and crew may have had

a lucky escape but it brought what was supposed to be a twelve day cruise along norway's coast to an abrupt and terrifying and i ever al-jazeera u.s. congressional leaders are awaiting the findings of special counsel robert miller's investigation into alleged collusion between president trump and russia during his two thousand and sixteen election campaign the report is currently with attorney general william barr who is expected to release a summary to congress within the next hour trumpet that is florida gulf resort has yet to comment on the conclusion of the twenty two month investigation well larry did not bring any additional indictments when he handed over his report on friday the democrats along with a number of republican lawmakers have called for the report to be released to the public in its entirety it's get more now from patrick will hane in washington d.c. patty i imagine that pretty much everyone in washington is looking forward to

seeing the contents of the reports or at least the summary that will be released and do we even know if president trump himself has any idea what's in it. according to the white house he has not yet been briefed so yeah pretty much everyone in washington is just doing this right now refresh refresh refresh so what we think is going to happen is he's going to send this letter to members of congress then they're going to hand it over to the media what this is going to be is the key summary findings from the moeller report we believe that he's going to ask for more time to go through the rest of the report so he can basically black out anything that would be classified or part of an ongoing investigation so what we're seeing now is the republicans are saying look the fact that miller says there's not really any new indictments is a vindication for the president it shows that there's no wrongdoing and i think it's important to point out the justice department said no new indictments we do know that there are dozens of sealed indictments that have already been filed in the court in washington d.c. whether those are to do with the mall or the mall or report we don't know so what

we're hearing is it's going to come any minute now they're going to send it to congress then it's going to be released to the public and then it's going to become a question of exactly what happened if you think about it let's put it in perspective it's been about twenty two months for robert mueller the man of impeccable credentials his team is not leaked at all so there's a lot of speculation about what's going to be here because they haven't been spilling any of their secrets but we have twenty two months thirty four people indicted including. three russian companies six people close to the president have either been convicted or facing charges or they pled guilty to lying about something to do with russia and so the question is that's a lot of smoke is there fire believe it or not we are actually about to find out after twenty two months out we go in and we do we know whether we're actually going to ever see the report in its entirety and not just the summary. democrats have

said that they are going to get that report and they're going to make it public and they have some tools to do that they control the house of representatives so they have the power of subpoena they could try to subpoena the reports the president could try to claim executive privilege and that would likely mean it would end up in the courts probably all the way to the supreme court decide if that's the route or they could simply subpoena robert mueller and the attorney general bob barr and make them testify as to what is actually in the report now a lot of this has to do with bob barr he was just recently confirmed he said it was his mission to protect the justice department he said there would be transparency but he said he would follow justice department rules and normally in most cases the justice department doesn't give out public information about a person in less they are indicted or facing criminal charges so there is some precedent for them not giving out that information but there's also precedent for them giving it out let's not forget hillary clinton was under investigation for e-mails and we saw the then f.b.i. director james comey come out and give all kinds of details about that investigation so the house democrats have said they will get this report they will

make it public we don't know if they're going to have to fight for it if they do it could take some time the president seems to be on their side that the public will eventually see what's in it and as you mentioned we are do you see the summary i guess what in the next half hour or so patty will definitely speak to you again when we have more details for them of patty contain in washington thank you. now with media reports of an internal coup to oust her the u.k. prime minister to resign may has been holding crisis talks with leading breaks its supporters in her ruling party at her country residence may is coming under increased pressure to resign ahead of a final attempt to get her brakes a deal through parliament m.p.'s are expected to vote on the withdrawal agreement for the third time this coming week some have suggested they would only support the bill if me agreed to recite well it has been one of the reason mays most group. zing week says britain's prime minister it began it with talk of

a third vote in parliament on her brakes of the oh but it quickly became clear that she still lacked the nuff support from m.p.'s to get it passed frustrated may made a televised address to the nation on wednesday in which she blamed m.p.'s for a delay to breaks it is high time we made the decision so far parliament has done everything possible to avoid making a choice motion after motion and amendment after amendment has been tabled without parliament ever deciding what it wants all m.p.'s have been willing to say is what they do not want. but that speech backfired alienating m.p.'s even further so in need of more time to pass or deal may went to an e.u. summit in brussels on thursday where leaders gave her a two week extension to the fast approaching exit deadline britain though could still crash out without a deal if there is no agreement by april twelfth the weekend they did with an

estimated one million people marching sunan the now they're all calling for a second referendum and also britain's leading political journalists are reporting that up of a plot by members of terry's amaze cabinet to remove her altogether one minister is reported to have said the end this is not i. well those reports suggest that cool might see may's deputy david leading turn replace her as a sort of caretaker meador but he denied wanting to take over when asked about it a little earlier ok a. lot of traffic speculation around the smalling i think from my point of you think i would have made clear is that i am one hundred percent behind the prime minister i'm working flat out as i always have been to try to get support for her deal i don't think that i have any wish to take it from the pm i think it's doing a fantastic job i tell you there's one thing that we do working closely with the prime minister does it cure you completely of any lingering shred of ambition to

want to do that that task i have an absolute admiration for the way she's going about it. well john johnston works for politics home a political news website he explains what might happen next to break the brakes at impasse what they're talking about doing is possibly having a set of for the killing decorative votes this week in parliament these are non-binding votes where m.p.'s could set out things they wanted to happen so far along with the criticism of m.p.'s and from the prime minister she made the speech last week not a good idea when she blamed m.p.'s for it but her point was that a lot of people believe m.p.'s have constantly been saying what they don't want to happen in parliament but not really saying what they do want to happen. and adding to the pressure on terrorism a petition calling for the government to cancel breck's it and for britain to remain in the e.u. has now received more than five million signature that's war than any other petition in the parliament websites history. in other news

a twenty story building in the german industrial city of duesberg has been demolished by a controlled explosion. wow known as the white giant as the nineteen seventies apartment block was blown up to make room for new buildings around two and a half thousand people had to be evacuated for the operation which used to hundred ninety kilograms of explosives. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera thailand's pro-military party has taken the lead in early election results it's the first parliamentary poll since a military coup in the country five years ago many expected the opposition party to win the vote. or in the district of campaign that's the hometown of former prime

minister topsy ballot papers from polling stations across the district for a final announcement tally preliminary results taken from the election commission's website showing how long the military backed party in the lead over this is an unexpected result especially as opinion polls taken just days before voting started had suggested that. the party. would be in the lead. drought in kenya is threatening a million people with starvation cattle and sheep herders in the arid regions of the country's north west are the worst affected the official death toll from site. has now risen again this time to four hundred forty six bringing the overall number of dead to more than seven hundred the storm has forced thousands from their homes and regional governments fear an outbreak of disease mollies armed forces chief and several top commanders have been fired after more than one hundred thirty four

people women and children among them were killed in an attack on a village on saturday a local mayor says gunmen dressed as traditional hunters raided a village of the cattle herders in central mali they also attacked another flaw in the village nearby ethnic violence has flared in mali's desert regions particularly since groups like al qaida and eisel began operating there the prime minister announced the sacking of the military commanders after an emergency cabinet meeting . twenty four hours after cycling trever a battered australia's northwestern coast residents are being hit by another powerful storm cycling veronica has been described as unusual powerful and slow moving it's currently staggering along the coastline bringing heavy rains and winds of one hundred fifty kilometers an hour those are your headlines coming up next it's talk to al-jazeera stay with us thanks for watching.

teheran november one thousand nine hundred eighty nine a group of iranian students take over the u.s. embassy. they were part of a revolution that overthrew the shah and replaced his government with an islamic republic just months birth. fifty two american diplomats and citizens were held hostage for four hundred forty four days in what became the longest hostage crisis in modern history. well up on her as the spokeswoman for the students must summa epp that car was a prominent figure at the time they demanded the us government deport the shah back

to iran to stand trial. the hostages were released in january one thousand nine hundred one when the crisis was over. but not at the cars career after years in academia she became iran's third female member of cabinet in its history when she was appointed head of the department of environment during former president mohammad khatami as government everything is very shaky. the military is skeptical has also served as to her own city councilwoman in august two thousand and seventeen president hassan rouhani appointed her vice president for women and family affairs forty years after the iranian revolution at the car remains a strong believer of the principle she fought for but what the she hope for the future the iranian vice president for women and family affairs must sumit if the car talks to al-jazeera. has some way to car iranian vice president for women and family affairs thank you for talking to us has it of twenty

years ago you were the first female. cabinet minister since the nine hundred seventy nine revolution forty years ago you were the spokes person for the hostage takers at the u.s. embassy how did you see your role back then the summer of one hundred by him this moment revolution in iran was a major social political economic upheaval it was a call for freedom and independence and establishment of an islamic democracy in iran in terms of independence well probably you and your viewers knew that no that he ran in the past was under foreign subjugation after a american staged coup d'etat in. nineteen fifty three. practically iran was under

american domination and the shaw took orders directly from washington from. outside of iraq so this was a major issue during the revolution it was a major issue for iranians iranians felt humiliated at the hands of. american. infiltrators who tried to change the course of iran's economy runs politics so the issue of independence was was a very very serious issue for students after the revolution students were students felt that they have to take action they felt that their voice is not heard in today's world they felt and they and they had evidence coming through through the news coming through the system and the system the islamic republic at that time is very young it's about seven or eight months all we still do not have

a. security apart this we still do not have a parliament we do not have a constitution adopted we don't have a president we just have a revolution council and a provisional government so everything is very shaky students feel that they have to take things in their hands to convince me after the shah is admitted to give us the students feel they understand they realize that something very serious is going to happen against their revolution once again and on that basis they decide to take over the american embassy with no arms with no force other than the slogans and moving ahead just to say just to deliver the message of the iranian people i was invited on their day to assist them or particularly for translation both in interviews into patient but also translation with documents but you're eager to

have them change it for two years later your political rivals many in the west see you as one and this is the way they described it as one of the masterminds behind this incident no i wasn't one of the masterminds the students groups the established student groups who were very active during the revolution before the revolution and after the election day designed this i've written this in my book take over and i have all these memoirs there it's very clear this is a student group they named themselves muslim students following the line of the mom because they didn't want to affiliate themselves with any political group do you have looking back at what happened in the hostage crisis do you have any regrets about being part of this incident i don't think any of the students have any regrets because they feel that that was a natural reaction any human being reacts to being subjugated to slavery i think

slavery has different. forms being subjugated foreign domination may be the only concern the only criticism or regret that they had was that it took too long and that it could have been resolved quicker but it wasn't in the hands of the students but on behalf of the american government they had they were also. taking their time on this issue because they had their elections ahead with their use if they were politicizing it. for their own particular interests but what motivated you to support the revolution what was the driving force you were young when i was young and i had a lot of questions because i understood i had lived in the and i think states and i understood the contrast between. the style of life in the us the values their values of freedom of independence which were very important with the

american revolution but then on the other hand the fact that nations like iran were subjugated humiliated at the hands of american forces and that our wealth was looted iran was seen as an opportunity for. both the in supporting the interests the. geopolitical interests but also the economic interests of western powers. in villages we had practically no opportunity for you we had doctors coming from abroad to serve in iran we had. terrible conditions you're here describing the situation back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine with many people with the you are describing the situation today you were a young person who. dreams goals but there is also the use of iran who who also

talk about freedom independence words. if you use time and time again how would you respond to them that's true this is a this is an internal dialogue that we have a young generation and it's very natural and this young generation they sees they see the developments the major achievements that we've had over all these years they are seeing the changes the changes that we're facing now in iranian society towards advancement toward the betterment of our conditions now a young. girl over boy in the villages they not only have access to primary and elementary education before the revolution about thirty eight percent of our girls they did not have access to elementary education it's now about three percent and that's even we think that that should reach zero because we have to invest for girls and we have to make sure that no girl is left out of school and this is the policy of the government now and we're doing

a lot of work to ensure that no girl is left out of school and the interesting thing is now even foreign students young foreign children living in iran like. afghan children living in iran according to decree of the supreme leader they have access to primary free primary education in iran so things have changed a lot in our young generation they understand in spite of the economic or the sanctions that we're facing now again on behalf of the american government in spite of the propaganda war against iran and that's. that's that's something that's been going on for all these years but again now we can see that it's orchestrated against iran a propaganda war trying to smear the image of the islamic republic they're trying to show you distort with many iranian officials this is because. external factors

is there and we have internal challenges no we have internal challenges if if we have a growth in terms of education and this is really remarkable because it's both the grounds that the islamic revolution created the enthusiasm for young girls to common attend school but also a sense of security for the traditional sector of the society because before they didn't feel. safe enough to send their children to school their girls to school but after lucian now they feel that it's safe and they're sending their girls are low in school but also to universities but we also understand that we have challenges we also have shortcomings like any other country. we also understand that we need to address some of the issues that we're facing but what is being done to address

those issues the public's concerns for example as i mentioned in the issue of education the challenge that we have is that we have not addressed life skills properly in our education system this is something that we are focusing on specifically for example in the elementary or secondary stages with the college and university system we're working on upgrading the for example the communication skills among youth upgrading their skills to deal with for example their rights citizen rights upgrading their skills on like critical thought these are life skills which are very important for the young generation and they've been generally overlooked in the education system in the past there's no doubt the literacy rate is much higher there have been achievements but there seems to be a disconnect we we go to the streets and people tell us our children are grown they

graduated but they can't find jobs. unemployment is a word you hear time and time again we want jobs so what is the government doing you are now a policy maker. part of those skills are also skills for and to produce ships kills for finding new jobs in different dimensions this is a very important area where the government is investing how it's going to take me how long can people cope with the situation it is quite dire economic situation i think that the people have learned how to increase their resilience in difficult times this nation has withstood a war in which the whole world was practically against iraq when saddam attacked iran so they've learned to be patient to strengthen their internal capacities this is what we're working supporting and to produce ship has been a strategy for us we've had a nationwide project implemented to train young woman

particularly women with college degrees to train them on into print a ship skills eighteen thousand billion tall mon's of loans given in the villages now and the interesting thing is forty two percent of those loans have been taken by woman and women are starting their businesses you talk about improving their lives exactly mounted secularly the interesting point is that in iran handicrafts traditional handicrafts and arts they have both very high static value but also at the global ranking iran stands third and seventy five percent of them are produced by iranian woman and now more and more they're looking to this area as an area where they can find new both

markets for them at the international. will but also in like i t in new areas of new technologies biotechnology are improving their lives but there is a sizeable minority who don't believe for example who want social change we don't believe in the mandatory headscarf for example what are your views towards that these people have been quite vocal they protest women in particular their dress code is now it is followed by a majority of iranians they believe in the dress code but also as you mentioned a minority my also not believe in the dress code but it's now a social regulation it's a law and usually iranian women are abiding by this law because they believe that they're part of the society and we have different social regulations but we also look to the fact that this is part of that dialogue that we need that intergenerational dialogue there is

a disconnect between the leadership of those in power and the use how are you going to bridge this gap this gap is going to be bridged through dialogue through more understanding we do you acknowledge the gap i don't i don't see that gap in all different time mentioned so i think that contrary to what is sometimes said our youth are. our young people they believe in the basic principles of the islamic revolution they've shown their support in the recent elections that we had just year and a half ago the young iranian population they took part in those elections and they decided they made a choice on what kind of government they like to see in iran that means that public participation youth participation. this connection that your connection exists but it has its ups and downs are you holding any dialogue with secular. it

was for example in this country we have a scheme called this intergenerational dialogue as i mentioned we're working starting from even the schools starting from the families we have a national family dialogue and it's emphasising on communication skills on the fact that we have to be able to listen well we have to be able to tolerate each other we have to be able to. to to find common ground yes we've found a lot of common ground both within families because the issue of the family is very important for you ron and it's both traditionally a cornerstone of human development but also now in these times in the digital age the family is a very important and emerging issue in our in respect of our social

development iranian society like any other society in the world has a dynamic element to it it's natural it's natural for every society but we also believe that islam has that dynamism inherent within itself some people are resisting that dynamism some people they think that they have to only a year to the past they think that the values might be challenged but the reform that is underway in iran the. philosophy of moderation looks to this dynamism as an opportunity can you can you elaborate on what reforms have been put in place we've had a very long list of laws that have been changed and reviewed and with form to the we can say to the benefit of the woman and the family after the revolution although we still have areas where we are now working both.

i we begin with some breaking news from the washington members of the u.s. congress have received a brief letter from the justice department on special counsel robert mueller his long awaited report into alleged collusion between president trump and russia during the two thousand and sixteen election campaign we can cross live now to patsy cline she joins us from washington d.c. this is a summary of that report patty that we had been waiting for at least the at least the past couple of days one of the top lines from it it's a four page letter and i'm just now reading through it but basically this is exactly what president donald trump could have hoped for with the special counsel investigation they're basically let's go through it real quick they're saying that they did these i didn't realize these numbers we because again robert ballers team has at least twenty eight hundred subpoenas executed nearly five hundred search

warrants obtain more than two hundred thirty orders for communication records and fifteen orders authorizing the use of pen registers made thirty requests to foreign governments for evidence and interviewed approximately five hundred witnesses so at the end of the day what did they find they found as the president often says no collusion between the russia campaign between russia and the trump campaign as for obstruction of justice basically the special counsel didn't determine whether or not the president did obstruct justice when he fired james komi the then f.b.i. director after asking him to lay off the investigation into his then national security adviser basically the special counsel robert mueller left it to right william barr and wrote rosenstein the two top officials at the department of justice and they have determined that there is not enough evidence to prosecute the president for for any sort of obstruction of justice want to give that the line is that there they can't find that it was done with corrupt intent basically much of what the president did they say he didn't public. for example after he fired james

comey he went on television and he said he did it because of the russia thing but they're saying that there they cannot find. conduct that is done with corrupt intent which would be required and also this is an interesting line it basically says that the president didn't commit crimes but they also are not basically saying that he didn't commit any crimes so this is what the president is going to want to hear one of the biggest lines that i just saw in this is that there are no more sealed indictments under special counsel robert muller so this is going to be seen as a victory for the president for two years he's been saying that there's no collusion and after all of these interviews we're seeing robert mueller same that they can't make a case that there was in fact collusion between officials within the trump organization the trump campaign and russian officials russian officials although they do say that russia made several attempts to do that so politically speaking patty is this the end of the road then obviously not just for this report but in general over the

question marks on whether any possible collusion happened. you know this is not by no means done it possibly would have been had republicans held on to both chambers of the congress but they didn't democrats now are in charge of the house of representatives and they're going to insist on seeing all of the underlying evidence from the special counsel's investigation they may come to their own conclusions but this yes this is going to be continued to be debated the president might say see i told you no collusion let's move on but the democrats don't necessarily have to allow that to happen they have ways of trying to get at the full investigation which bob barr said he could he is going through and deciding which parts can be made public so no democrats are most likely going to continue to investigate and it's not just bob mueller bob mahler's one of the ten investigations into president trump right now if we're going to go through it we've got the attorneys in maryland and the district of columbia they're trying to sue

the president for violating the constitution by holding on to his hotel say that he's violating the constitution by taking foreign money there we've got the more troubling investigation for the president that is in the southern district of new york those are federal investigators we know that they are looking into whether the president didn't pay taxes properly for decades in new york but the bigger investigation is what went on in his inaugural committee he raised more money than any president that it ever been inaugurated in a lot of people are saying well we can't figure out what he spent it on did he take money from foreign countries which would be illegal so that investigation is going on new jersey's looking into his golf course to see if to investigate whether or not he hired knowingly undocumented workers and then there's also state investigators in new york they're also investigating the president's business dealings and they have to have grand juries and subpoena power so this is going to be seen as vindication for a president who is felt under siege by robert mueller but at the same time it is

not a complete vindication they're saying that basically they there's stuff there but there's not enough there there basically again the letter just. came out and i would have to read it a couple more times but that's my first impression ok well let me just ask you one more question and then i will give you time to have a proper read through i presume other people heeding a sigh of relief would be donald trump's son dawn jr and his son in law jared cushioning in particular. well there are questions about what their involvement was and one of the bigger things i'm going to be watching for is did they lie to congress if you lie to congress it's a crime donald trump's personal fixer an attorney knows that because he's about to go to prison for just lying to congress there are a lot of congressmen have come out after their testimony and said that basically they feel that that both don jr jared kushner and also erik prince the former c.e.o. of blackwater that he could have best lead congress there's a lot that we're going to want to see in this report if it's made public for

example there was this very unusual meeting in the seychelles island between air prince george nader a russian oligarch the crown prince of the u.a.e. and that they met so what exactly happened there so we're going to still again this is not over if congress can get their hands on all of these different interviews all of these records i mean this is an enormous amount of information that robert mueller has gathered they can come to different conclusions but for now the mall reported least at first reading it appears that this is in fact some vindication for president donald trump because he will obviously be discussing the details of this over the next few hours for the moment in washington thank you let's go to gabriel is on the he's in palm beach florida not far from the president's mar a lago resort where donald trump has been for the past few days any reaction from trump himself because he had been uncharacteristically quiet on twitter had any.

he had been and there is no reaction from the president this news of course just coming in right now we are hearing that the white house was perhaps given a read out of this four page summary of the mula report perhaps as early as an hour ago unconfirmed but that is what we are hearing nevertheless no reaction yet from the white house president donald trump mostly stayed out of public view on this sunday he played golf but other than that he is scheduled to board air force one and fly back to washington any minute now we're unsure if he's going to delay that or not but clearly he has been huddling with his top lawyers who are handling the mueller investigation and now we're just waiting for any sort of initial reaction from the white house or from president donald trump himself and we've got

to say it's a little uncharacteristic a man who likes to tweet in real time that he's so quiet about this because particularly the findings after the read of this four page document is that it does seem to exonerate donald trump and his claims that he or anyone around his campaign had any sort of knowing had any knowingly collusion with any russian actors during the campaign so initial reading of this four page. summary by the attorney general seems to have a lot in there that this president is probably going to be very happy about gabrielle is on that with the latest there from palm beach not far from the resort thank you let's bring in james boies is a political historian specializing in u.s. politics and a profession a professor of international political studies at richmond university thanks for joining us always good to see you so let's just remind the viewers first of all the

justice department says the moeller report. robert mueller did not find that trump campaign or its associates conspired or coordinated with russia does this exonerate donald trump well of the four page letter that's been released to have a look at two key elements within the report the first half of you rightly referred to their looks at the issues to do with russia and russia's involvement and in that regard the attorney general's letter seems to exonerate the president needs to be making it very clear that yes russia attempted and dealing deed getting involved with regard to trying to hack into the d.n.c. for example and in some respects try to tilt the general election but that donald trump's team were not in any way involved in that so from that point of view i think donald trump and team will say see no collusion we've been saying this all along ok the second part there because we also heard that well there's evidence not sufficient to establish that trump committed obstruction of justice this is this is

the second half this is looks exactly the question of obstruction of justice which the the main reports they were talking about and they're the language is telling because what the attorney general barr is basically saying is that robert muller did not make a conclusion one way or the other he simply presented the facts and that the reports did not find guilty nor did they exonerate donald trump and that has led the attorney general to make his own ruling and within the timeframe that the attorney general in the d.o.j. have had this report they have concluded in the text of this communique we're seeing tonight about the last twenty minutes or so that there simply is not the grounds to move forward and make an allegation of obstruction of justice against the president at this point now i think what could be final here is that democrats are going to want to make sure that they can see the exact wording of this report to make sure that the attorney general is drawing conclusions with actually upon the findings that miller has put forward and isn't bringing political spin into this which is the obvious allegation that could be leveled at of course the report

that we're talking about with the summary really four page but the first. report is based on a twenty two month investigation so how will the democrats go about trying to see the full report will conclude in part of this letter by the attorney general makes it clear that he is now going to be looking to seek guidance about the release of the full report there's going to be elements within that which makes some of it quite difficult because as patty rightly reported there are a number of ongoing investigations which could be compromised if this report were released the democrats i think are going to be looking to do everything they can to get this released they will no doubt subpoena robert mueller if necessary they'll subpoena the report and of course there is the potential to take this all the way to the supreme court if they wish to do so james was just stay with us a second i'd like to go back to florida and speak to. our correspondent there palm beach very close to. that resort in florida you've got some news for us what is it well a little bit i mean this is

a most consequential moment in donald trump's presidency and i was trying to figure out where he said he was supposed to be on a plane right now heading back to washington d.c. we just got the latest report that he has not left moral law go yet. and here's his motorcade has not left on the way to the airport. what we glean into this it's anybody's guess still has not tweeted about this and we've got no word at all from the white house we did hear back from them we've been asking them repeatedly the white house were you given notice of this four page summary before it was given to congress and we have not gotten any answer from the white house yet so this is a white house that is just saying absolutely nothing right now of course that's going to change at some point it's just a matter of when everyone is on the with the latest there from florida gabriel thank you it's come back here to james boys in the studio trying to make sense of all of this with us i mean the president is not

a man that you know holds back from bragging when he can and this he will see is a huge victory sort of backs up what he's been saying for a long time does it surprise you that we haven't heard anything from him yet you're so you're right it's not like the president to be taciturn when it comes to issues like this perhaps finally listening to his attorneys but if you two are trying for course what donald trump was going to doing at this point you to much now be popping the champagne maybe that's why he's not flying back on air force one just this point he's obviously got all the supplies there down at mar a lago but it's a good night for don't trump it must be said i think james thank you for that for now and let's go back to washington d.c. where our correspondent particle hane has been looking at the details of this four page summary of the. report patty have you found anything else in there that you think is interesting. yeah this just section again i had just read it when it had just been released in the section i hadn't really noticed before one of the reasons

they're saying that there was not obstruction of justice is because they're the first finding that the trump campaign didn't coordinate didn't collude with russia so therefore he wasn't covering anything up since they found no evidence that he committed a crime the most interesting line though again in this report is that. the where did i put it that. he does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him so what exactly did they find that they thought meaning we could but maybe maybe not and that's where this is going to come into play there are two standards when it comes to looking into presidential conduct there is what prosecutors need to have that i can tell you after covering federal crimes for quite a while federal prosecutors do not bring charges unless they consider it basically a slam dunk that they are convinced that they can get a conviction so that's the standard that robert mueller was working under the political implications that is a much lower standard so that is why the democrats are going to be so anxious to

get this evidence if they feel they can make out to lay out a case that is a lower standard that can make some sort of connections between either the charm campaign or russia or any of the evidence that they have about obstruction of justice they can make a political argument again this is just amazing if you think about it they had nineteen lawyers a team of forty f.b.i. agents twenty two months twenty eight hundred subpoenas five hundred search warrants two hundred thirty orders for communications records it is a new more enormous amount of information that they now say and again the president is somewhat surprisingly hasn't been doing some sort of victory dance but he has been saying no collusion this report says there was no collusion and because there was no collusion the president wasn't obstructing justice in an attempt to cover anything up that is robert muller's finding and democrats are not going to be able to basically diminish robert mueller because they have been saying along with

republicans up until recently that robert mueller is a man whose character is a beyond reproach he was the f.b.i. he's a first of all he was a marine commander in vietnam he came from a very wealthy family didn't should have to go to vietnam he chose to go into the marine corps and lead men in vietnam he was the. f.b.i. director for both republican and democratic presidents you took over the f.b.i. just before the nine eleven attacks he was credited with transforming the federal bureau of investigation he is considered one of the most gifted and honest lawyers in the country so the democrats cannot say well robert mueller got it wrong for political reasons because they've spent the last twenty two months holding him up as someone whose character again is beyond reproach so this means that the president will probably i would think soon start tweeting but it's by no means means that it's over because again this line does not conclude that the president committed

a crime it also does not exonerate him so does that whatever they found there does that rise to the level of political problems well we're going to have to wait and see if the democrats get a hold of the democrats going to hold of the reports so this president obviously from the beginning such a divisive president and so many people politicians and it kind of been holding on to the smaller investigation and thinking that they were going to get answers one way or another but it does seem that even though it's no negative for president trump it still really doesn't end the visions that many people feel about that about him you know the thing is i think everybody was pinning. their hopes on muller at least the democrats were the republicans were worried about mahler because think about this there are six people close to the president and many of those have been charged with lying to the federal bureau of investigation so of course the theory was well why would you lie if you didn't do anything to begin with you're going to go to prison for lying to the f.b.i.

and possibly go to prison one definitely is five have pled guilty one still facing charges so if you didn't do anything wrong why would you lie about it that i think is still the open question. pedicle him with the latest there from washington patty for the moment thank you. and back to james boys here in the studio with us more details coming out now not enough because we obviously still don't have the full report what do you think the political impact of this will be well i think as patty was rightly pointing out there as i was talking about a little earlier on that key line there that this report does not exonerate donald trump is going to elect all over by the democrats who are going to be saying that this in that one line in caption lates every concern they've got about the way that this has been handled by the d.o.j. that there is going to be a political spin put upon this and it was robert barres interpretation of what what mahler's report says that he's now in the public rather than the model report

itself the report was always going to be the political threat to donald trump and as patty was rightly saying in some of our reporting there there is also the legal threats to donald trump they haven't gone away at all if you look at what's going on in the southern district of new york for example a whole host of other jurisdictions are holding senior level investigations into donald trump and his business activities and to answer the question that patty rightly raised there about why there were so many people getting caught in a perjury trap effectively of lying before congress lying to the f.b.i. what more is investigation was doing was also opening up a whole can of worms about other financial irregularities that many of these people were involved in and as the the trump white house would doubt me point out they were accused of lying about issues that were not directly related to what the main focus of the investigation was about now i think you're going to see the focus move away from more towards these civil create crises the.