david gregory, the president also called robert mueller a true never trumper, which is the first timeeve i've heard donald trump say that about the special counsel. >> well, you've got a sad contrast between somebody in robert mueller who has conducted himself professionally and with integrity as a patriot, and the president who in his pet u lens i think is doing more to move the needle toward getting congress to initiate impeachment proceedings than anyone else. we have to refined ourselves there wouldn't have been a special counsel if the president hadn't brought this on himself. so that is this lack of self-control that our president of the united states displays on a near daily basis. again, the notion -- it's not really worth defending because it doesn't make any sense, but i think hearing the president's reaction certainly belies whatever measured reaction there was from the white house yesterday. this is his true colors. he just wants to fight and fight all the time and now i think you have to ask yourself whether there will be more momentum toward getting mueller to testify, w

i think mueller is a true never trumper. he's somebody that dislikes donald trump. >> reporter: the president contends intelligence officials from the obama administration illegally surveilled his campaign and barr agrees there was spying. you've gotten some criticism for using that word. >> yeah, i guess it's become a dirty word somehow. it has never been for me. i think there's nothing wrong with spying. the question is always whether it's authorized by law and properly predicated. and if it is, then it's an important tool the united states has to protect the country. >> i think in the end i will consider what's happening now to be one of my greatest achievements, exposing this corruption. >> reporter: barr has launched a new investigation into whether the surveillance was appropriate, possible bias among senior justice department officials who worked on it. president trump believes some committed treason. you don't think they committed treason? >> not in a legal manner. >> reporter: but you have concerns about how they co

mueller is a never trumper.likes donald trump. >> that was president trump tearing in to robert mueller. saying he should have never gotten the job in the first place. michael cohen's person attorney saying he got it right. lanny davis writing this in an op-ed. he said "mueller was adhering to due process principles. he properly passed the bat on this to where it belongs to the u.s. congress." lisa boothe, to you first. when a prosecutor has one job, you indict or not. if you don't indict, you shut up. so how is this due process? >> it's not. great point. i think the irony is this lanny davis wrote a book called the unmaking of the president, 2016. how james comey caused hillary clinton the presidency. and what mueller did is the same thing that james comey did by flouting doj guidelines. if you're not going to charge someone and still naming them and shaming them, leaving the doubt to fuel the political firestorm. i find it ironic that he wrote a book about this but he has no problem with what robert mueller di

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he called mueller a never trumper. i think that in his comments today the president has really shown how irritated he has been by what has transpired over the last 24 hours. he said that mueller was basically, you know, a part of the never trump movement, part of the movement of people trying to take him out of office. he yesterday why he didn't investigate people like james comey and peter strzok and lisa page. then he went on to talk about impeachment which he called a dirty filthy disgusting word. those were his words exactly, dirty, filthy, disgusting word. he said he is not sure if the courts will even allow the democrats to impeach him. he says this because he believes that mueller basically exonerated him of all crimes. he said mueller was not able to bring charges against him on collusion, conspiracy and obstruction and that is essentially an exoneration for him. so the president is doubling down, he is, you know, strongly going against mueller in this situation, even as his white house is trying to say that th

there's just people who like him and never trumpers. the argument for never trumpers here is unbelievably thin. how does it affect? i agree completely with heidi and paul. he was low key yesterday. he was just the facts and joe friday. but it didn't matter. it was riveting. it's 24 hours later and it's all anyone is talking about. just to have him say and frame the things that are already in the report makes a huge difference to bring it home and also the sort of television moment. that's why the house wants it and will probably get it and why the white house is doing everything to avoid it. e these comments 's point, what weeks ago, before the attorney general had a chance to put his own spin on it. >> the attorney general controlled the narrative. what he said was that mueller found no collusion. what mueller said is that he didn't find enough evidence of conspiracy to satisfy the doj's high standards for bringing a criminal case. barr said that he was concerned about the obama administration spying on the trump campaign. what mueller

. >> i think mueller is a true never trumper. he is somebody that doesn't like donald trump. he was appointed. and despite that, and despite $40 million, 18 trump haters, including people who work for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it's pretty amazing. >> reporter: but much of what the president said wasn't true. for starters, the latest cost of the mueller report and russia investigation is $25 million, not $40 million. and as for the president's claim, that mueller was conflicted, steve bannon told investigators the search was ridiculous. and the president said that mueller wanted the position of fbi director. but that's not true, either, according to people around him. the president appeared to make a startling admission. russia, russia, russia. russia has disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me get elected. but the president tried to clean up that part about russia helping him get elected. >> russia did not get me elected. i got me elected. russia, if anything, i think, helped the other side. >> report

mueller deeply conflicted and a never-trumper. the russia investigation, he says, was a scam. early-morning tweet he seemed to acknowledge that russia interfered in the election in his favor.nu s later he was asked about it on the south lawn. pres. trump: you know who got me elected? you know who got me elected? i got me elected. russia never helped me at all. i never thought that would be y ssible to be using that word. to me it is a dird, the word impeach. it is a sgrty, filthy, ting word. i think mueller is a true never-trumper, somebody who dislikes donald trump, somebody that did not get the job he reques badly, and that he was appointed. and despite that, and despite $4million, 18 trump haters, including people who work for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it's pretty amazing.ja : for more, i spokefo to er advisor to george w. bush ron christie. emthe president has quite reticent when it comes to criticizing robert mueller. why has he decided now that it is ok to take the gloves off? ron: well, good evening to you, jane. i he

. >> you mean republicans who are never trumpers. >> well, they didn't srt out as never trumpers. some of them did. some of them then went like, "what's going on here?" these are not people that iss would neily agree wholeheartedly on issues, but certainly, they argue their point with a basis in fact. patrick moynihan said, "you're entitled to your own opinion, and that's your own facts." at least there's a common basis ofact that you can discuss things with them. >> so, when you first played meathead, as you were endearingly called by your father-in-law on "all in the family," i mean, y were the liberal son-in-law. he was the conservative father-in-law, and the divisions and the conflicts an disagreements you had on the show, in many ways, parallel the same disagreements that we're having today. let's look at a clip from "all in the family" from the first moment you met archie bunker. >> let me tell you something, mr. bunker. >> no, let me tell you something, mr. stivic. you are a meathead. >> what did you call me? >> a meathead. dead from the neck up. meathead. de>> so you wrote

approve the job on the economy.er >> laura: john, all we hear from former republicans, and never trumpers who have made a lot ofma money being never trumpers, trump's base is shrinking because it's just a bunch of angry disgruntled white people, let's watch. >> i'm so surprised how many people at washington, they don't care. it's why i'm voting for him for they don't care what he does. >> a lot of people who say that they are white. it's a shrinking electorate for donald j. trump. >> laura: when you say it like this, it's more convincing john. >> terrible. this is the same stuff they ran with in 2016.. >> laura: they were wrong in 2016 and fabulously after they hung out with trump for years. >> the strategy was to bring out o voters in the heartland for 9 million more voters who came out in the election then they did in 2012 and they were trump voters and they turn the country around. what you got now is a president in position -- we have this job approval. once he's in 50%, he's in a realm where they cannot beat him for they have 23 deranged democrats running off the edge of the earth wi

i think mueller is a true never-trumper. he's somebody that dislikes

trump fired back. >> i think mueller is a true never trumper. he's somebody that dislikes donald trump. he's somebody that didn't get a job that he requested that he wanted very badly. and then he was appointed. and despite that, and despite $40 million, 18 trump haters, including people that worked for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it's pretty amazing. >> reporter: much of what the president said wasn't true. for starters, the latest estimated cost of the mueller report and russia investigation is $25 million, not $40 million. as for the president's claim that mueller was conflicted, former white house chief strategist steve bannon said that assertion was ridiculous. also he said that mueller wanted the position of fbi director. that's not true either who said mueller did ghot in looking for the position, a job he had during the bush and obama administrations. still, earlier in the day, the president appeared to make a startling admission tweeting, russia, russia, russia, that's all you heard at

i think mueller is a true never trumper. he's somebody that dislikes donald trump. he's somebody that didn't get a job done and requested that he wanted very badly. n then he was appointed. >> so -- >> mueller is not a true -- i think i know all the true never trumpers personally and have talked to them over the last years. i haven't spoken with robert mueller. >> you're the arbiter. >> in terms of the conflicts, the justice department ruled that mueller did not have any conflicts that would prevent him from being special counsel. and trump's own aides, bannon, pre priebus, mcgahn told him the claims were ridiculous. >> that doesn't stop trump. >> it's beyond whatever his emotional character. they're not bringing up an election security bill that has bipartisan support. so there are real world consequences to trump's denial of russian interference. in fact, people forget in the mueller report, it's not just that trump ordered mcgahn to shut down the investigation because he didn't want there to be any implication that the trump campaign helped russia. he didn't want

a new never trumper. what does that mean based on what?ecause of a business deal they had that went bad. he also said he wasn't going to name mr. mueller the head of the f.b.i. and he was named as special counsel a short time later. those are conflicts the president thinks the people need to understand not to mention the fact of the 19 attorneys as he likes to say 18 were angry democrats. so many of whom gave money to hillary clinton, actually went to her party on election night. so there were plenty of conflicts out there. the point in telling the american people that is this, if those people have a clear record of supporting democrats and being for hillary clinton and they couldn't come up with anything the president had done wrong, then it is obvious he has done nothing wrong and time to move forward. >> sandra: we know the attorney general was traveling yesterday while robert mueller gave that public statement. has the president spoken with william barr since then? >> i don't know if they've spoken. >> bill: there was an article in the

i think mueller is a true never trumper. he is somebody that dislikes donald trump. >> reporter: the president contends intelligence officials from the obama administration illegally surveilled his campaign and barr agrees there was spying. you've gotten some criticism for using that word. >> yeah, i guess it's become a dirty word somehow. it has never been for me. i think there is nothing wrong with spying. the question is always whether it's authorized by law and properly predicated. rtant ol the united states has to protect the country. >> i think in the end, i will consider what's happening now to be one of my greatest achievements, exposing this corruption. >> reporter: barr has lodged a new investigation into whether the surveillance was appropriate, and possible bias among senior justice department officials who worked on it. president trump believe some committed treason. you don't think that they committed treason? >> not as a legal matter, right. >> so just how far will the white house staff go to keep president tr

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the broad spectrum of never trumpers and hard core trumpers came together and that was before a mid-term. it faded in the months before the mid-term. the timing is such that this would be like a year from election day if that the. >> yes and 1998, the impeachment proceedings in 1998 were one month before the election. so everybody talks about how republicans backfired on them. let's look two years down the line and the presidential election, republicans won back the presidency. you would think they would not be able to do that. that's a similar timeline to where we are today. this is a two or three or four-month process that would be done by the fall. if they were to do it right now, you have a year to talk about other things in the 2020 election. >> we had the first shut down, the brief one, two or three days. that would impact the mid-term elections. i forgot about the first shut down. thank you both. >> coming up, new calls to investigate what looks like a cover up of migrant deaths on the border. joaquin castro joins me next. at the border. >>> the 6th migrant child to die at the bor

i think mueller is a never trumper. he's somebody that dislikes donald trump. he is somebody that didn't get a job that he wanted very badly and then he was appointed. despite that, despite $40 million, 18 trump haters, including people that worked for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it's pretty amazing. >> now, the department of justice found that the conflicts that mueller had were not significant enough to keep him from serving as special counsel and he cites testimonies from the president's advisers that the president would not use the perceived conflicts as a reason to remove mueller as the special prosecutor. the bar for political rhetoric is lower. we can expect to hear the president to discredit mulener the days and weeks and months ahead. the president appeared to walk back a bit something that he tweeted earlier in the day. in the tweet he said about the russia investigation and now russia has disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me get elected. at the departure, the president dismi

true k mueller is a trumper. he's snab dislikes donald trump. he's somebody that didn't get a requested that he wanted very badly, and then he was appointed. and despite that, and despite 18 trump haters, including people that worked for hillary clinton and some of the on earth, beings they got nothing. it's pretty amazing. not help me get reelectrocuted. you know who got me elected? elected. russia didn't help me at all. russia, if anything, i think side. the other what you ought to ask is this. do you think the media helped get elected?on she didn't make it but you take a look at collusion between media. clinton and the you take a look at collusion between hillary clinton and russia. to do in the campaign with russia than i did. i had nothing to do. way, that's one other thing, if you look, this russia, russia, russia. they don't talk about russia anymore because it turned out to be a hoax. it was a hoax. and then they say, gee, he fought back. terrible?t he fought back. of course, they fight back. because it was a false accusation, a totally

i think mueller is a true never trumper. he is somebody that dislikes donald trump. he didn't get a job that he requested he wanted badly and then he was appointed. despite that, despite $40 million, 18 trump haters including people that worked for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. >> the president's blistering condemnation of mueller comes as more democrats push for his impeachment. so far, nancy pelosi still resisting. john roberts now from the north lawn. john, i should say within moments we're expecting to see the president at falcon stadium. he's giving the commencement speech. we'll let you take it away with mueller. >> the president is running an hour late, so that will happen 1:15 or so. certainly robert mueller yesterday injected new political momentum into this whole idea of whether or not the president committed any kind of obstruction in the russia investigation and giving more fuel to democrats that might want to go down the road for impeachment. that's why the president came out swinging so hard as he was on

president trump calling mueller a never-trumper, proclaiming his innocence. new threats from china borrow from the past military glory, coupled with harsh words from secretary of state mike pompeo have many wondering if the trade war with china could turn into a military showdown. all that and so much more on "making money." ♪ charles: president trump erupting today, a day after robert mueller broke his silence on the russia probe saying he did not exonerate trump of committing a crime. trump said that mueller led a biased investigation from the very start. he can't imagine being impeached. >> i think mueller is a true never-trumper. he is somebody that dislikes donald trump. he is somebody that didn't get a job that he requested, he wanted very badly. i never thought that would be possible to using that word. to me it is a dirty word, the word impeach. that is dirty, filthy, disgusting word and had nothing to do with me so i don't think, because there was no crime. high crimes and, not with or or, it is high crimes and misdemeanors. there was no high crime a

i think mueller is a true never trumper. >> reporter: according to the mueller report, his claims he was conflicted were ridiculous and petty. his claims that mueller did not charge him with any crime. >> so he said, essentially, you are innocent >> here is what mueller actually said >> if we had confidence the president clearly had not committed a crime, we would have said so. >> and he believes mueller could have offered a conclusion despite the long-standing policy that forbids inindicting a sitting president. >> the opinion says you can't indict but he could have reached a decision whether it was criminal activity. >> the drum beat of democrats calling for impeachment is growing. >> it is a dirty word. impeach. a dirty, filthy, disgusting word it had nothing to do with me there was no high crime and no misdemeanor. how do you impeach based on that >>> president trump is taking aim at mexican economy starting june 10, the u.s. will impose tariffs on all mexican imports. the white house said mexico must step up and help with this problem. tracie potts joins us from d.c these tariff

i think that mueller is a true never-trumper.e dislikes donald trump, 18 trump haters including people that work for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth. they have nothing. >> in the public statement, mueller again stated that he did not reach a conclusion on obstruction, speaking to cbs, attorney general bill barr said that he was baffled by mueller's refusal to find a conclusion. >> i feel that he could have reached a decision. he could've reached a conclusion, the opinion says that you cannot indict a president while he is in office. but he could've reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. >> not making a decision whether there was criminal activity, mueller suggested that there was plenty of string for congress to pull on. >> the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> i'm not sure what he was suggesting, but the department of justice does not use our powers investigating crimes as an adjunct to co

i think mueller is a true never trumper and disliked donald trump and somebody that didn't get a job that he requested that he wanted very badly and then appointed. and despite that, and despite $40 million, 18 trump haters, including people that work for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it is pretty amazing. >> so this morning the president of the united states stood on the white house grounds and went on a rant telling a flurry of lies. he not only went on off mueller, referring to him as you just heard, a forever never trumper and telling a lie about mueller and the fbi and we'll fact check that in a moment. but he went off on china and the late senator john mccain. and then he walked back a treat from this morning where he acknowledged for the first time that russia helped him get elected. a tweet he has since deleted. here is the walkback. >> no, russia did not help me get elected. you know who got me elected? you know who got me elected? i got me elected. russia didn't help me at all. >> got me elected. well you and the 62,984,825 a

i think mueller is a true never-trumper. he's somebody that dislikes donald trump. he's somebody that didn't get a job that he requested that he wanted very badly then he was appointed. >> all right. let's start off at the white house. there's a lot to unpack here. n nbc's hans nichols joins me there. the president is off in colorado but definitely felt a need to get something off his chest today. >> reporter: he spoke to us for a little more than 15 minutes before he left, ali. it's clear the president feels that robert mueller was out to get him, and while he claims to be vindicated by the report, he also says that robert mueller was always conflicted. now, the latest bit of news we have on this advancing the story is from william barr, the attorney general. he's done an interview with cbs where he's repeating his point that basically he and mueller, that's to say barr and mueller, have a dispute on whether or not mueller was going to be able to make a conclusion. listen to what he told cbs. >> we saw the special counsel yesterday make that statement. he analyzed

i think mueller is a true never trumper, somebody that dislikes donald trump. >> the president on defense after mueller declined to exonerate him during his remarks on the russia investigation yesterday. and for the first time, publicly acknowledging russian election ddling tweeting i had nothing to do with russia helpin me to get elected. minutes later seeming tose rever himself. >> russia did not help me get elected. you know who got me elected? you know who got me elected? i got me elected. russia didn't help me at all. >> mueller's investigation revealed russia did interfere in the election favoring the trump campaign. mueller's remarks on obstruction have more democrats calling for impeachment. >> to me it's a dirty word, the word impeach. it's a dirty filthy disgusting word. >> there are 46 house members and onrepublican pressuring nancy pelosi to begin the impeachment process. >> nothing is offhe table. >> in a new interview with cbs news, attorney general william barr threw the responsibility on obstruction back to the special counsel for not reaching a n on the charge. >> i perso

he is a trumper. he knows i'm an anti-trumper. first thing he says to me, how about those numbers. talking about the economic numbers, and i said, yes, but about trump. he said, how about those numbers. you talk to ceos and there are the jamie dimon ceos that see things. do you get a guy like welsh looking at the numbers or shareholder value or there's another thing going on as they see trump and some of the, to say the least, less trump -- >> i find it is the following donny. i know hate him or love him, the numbers are good. so in other words they don't know where you are coming from. it is always hate him or love him. they want a caveat -- they don't say i hate him or say i love him, but they do say the numbers are really good. when you get a 3.6% gdp growth, you get 6% unemployment, unbelievable. you start to, well, when was it like it? in 1969, guns and butter, terrible inflation. i think that people don't want anymore to say, it is luck or it is obama. they will say, hey, listen, i don't know, you may think he is the worst guy in the world, you may love him, but, wow, the num

i think mueller is a true never-trumper. he's somebody that dislikes donald trump. he's somebody that didn't get a job that he requested that he wanted very badly, and then he was appointed. and despite that. and despite $40 million, 18 trump haters, including people that worked for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it's pretty amazing. >> the worst human beings on earth. if you need any further evidence that mueller's performance yesterday left trump stripped of his typical bluster today he admitted that russia helped him win writing on twitter, quote, i had nothing to do with russia helping me to get elected. of course, he saw the reaction on that from twitter, got out of his jam pemies to the cameras a tried to clean it up. but andrew mccabe bringing it in focus. >> we know from the reports something like 140 contacts between individuals associated with the campaign contacting and having interactions with russians or people connected to the intelligence services. this is unprecedented activity. so, you know, what has b

president trump dismissed mueller as a never trumper who led a biassed investigation. this after mueller declined to exonerate him yesterday. onsang i had nothing to do with russia helping me get elected. minutes later he reversed course. >> russia did not get me elected. you know who got me elected? i go me elected. russia helped the other side. >> that's not what mueller's investigation reveal findi inin russia did interfere and favored the trump campaign. 46 democrats and one republican want to start the impeachment process. nancy pelosi said nothing is off the table. >>> the wait is over. almost. the nba finals tipoff in less than an hour. this is a live look outside the arena. they are in toronto. this is called jurassic park. get it. the toronto raptors. the fans can watch on the big screen. they don't get a ticket inside. they have to watch outside. 1500 fans are allowed in in this outside zone and it filled up six hours ago. we'll have highlights and reactions tonight on our 11:00 newscast. >>> you want to hang with fans. up next, a woman claims her tesla made

i think mueller is a true never trumper. he's somebody that dislikes donald trump. he's somebody that didn't get a job that he requested that he wanted very badly. and then he was appointed. and despite that and despite $40 million, 18 trump haters, including people that worked for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it's pretty amazing. >> the president also referred to what he in the past has called the i word impeachment saying it was a dirty filthy disgusting word when pressed on whether democrats will move forward with impeachment given the words of robert mueller yesterday. he said it amounted to harassment and he also said his greatest achievement would be exposing the depth of the corruption here again going after the origins of the investigate itself. one thing i will flag for you, there was a striking tweet from the president this morning where he said mopping other things now russia has disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me to get elected. it was the first time that the president acknowle

and never-trumpers woke up tonight.see big dollars head his way, but many of those never-trumpers reluctantly have grown to support the president over time saying, well, the economy is doing well, many democratic candidates are really far to the left or joe biden is sort of a status quo vote. do you think pete changed things last night? >> well, he's done this before. he's gone into sort of untraditional arenas to make his case. he's a very smart talker, as we know. he's extremely articulate. he's still pretty far down low in the polls, stephanie. so i would hesitate to say he broke through and changed everything. right now what we're seeing is joe biden really lapping all the other candidates in that space, particularly the kind of space that pete buttigieg is trying to appeal to. that sort of moderate, middle, reach out to voters who completely rejected hillary clinton in 2016, bring some of them back. obviously not all of them, but start to talk about unity, start to talk about places where the two sides can agree. a

i think mueller is a true never trumper. >> with me in studio to share their reporting and insights, cnn's kaitlan collins and others. i ask this question a lot. it's a choice to take questions from reporters. it's a choice to flash your anger like that. why? the word from the white house yesterday was we don't like this. what robert mueller said would not be good for us, but if he says he doesn't want to testify, let's just hope this day passes. the president didn't do that. >> he tried to downplay what the president and the white house have tried to do and they know having the special counsel appear on camera like that doesn't really help their case. it's something that the president wants to talk about. he came out there and talked about the economy and talked about jobs and turkey releasing a hostage or a prisoner but then, of course, he gets into this tirade about robert mueller, not all true, of course, and that is what makes it the headline of the day. >> anger. you could see it. i mean, the president -- he's a performer sometimes. i don't mean that critically. all politicians

. >> i think he is a total conflicted person i think mueller is a true never-trumper. >> reporter: accordingo the mueller report, former adviser steve bannon told the president his claims that mueller was conflicted were ridiculous and petty the president touting that mueller did not charge him with any crime. >> so he said essentially you're innocent i'm innocent of all charges. >> reporter: here is what mueller actually said. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> reporter: and he believeuld have offered a conclusion on obstruction of justice. despit longstanding justice department policy that forbids indicting a sitting pren opinion sayent whs in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. >> reporter: tonight the drum beat of democrats calling for impeachment proceedings is growing, a move the president says should not be allowed. >> to me it is a dirty word, the word "impeach." it is a dirty, filthy, disgusting word, and it had nothing to do with me. there was no high crime and the

i think mueller is a true never- trumper. he's somebody that dislikes drufl donald trump. >> the president resumed his attacks. before departing, mueller reiterated his written report's findings about obstruction of justice. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> in an exclusive interview with cbs this morning, attorney general william barr told jan crawford, he was surprised mueller didn't reach a conclusion. >> in your opinion, he could have reached a conclusion. >> right. the opinion says says you captain indict a president while he's in office. but you can reach a conclusion. but he had his reasons which he explained. >> it is bill barr's view that the president could have shut down the mueller investigation any time that he wanted because he thought it unfair. that is a description for a president who is utterly above the law. >> schiff said he is undecided about whether the president should be impeached. lauren podesta, cbs news. >> and the rest will be s

i think mueller is a true never-trumper. >> the president resumed his attacks a day after mueller resigned from the justice department. before departing mueller reiterated his written report's findings about obstruction of justice. >> if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> in an exclusive interview with "cbs this morning," attorney general william barr told jan crawford he was surprised mueller didn't make a decision. >> in your view he could have reached a conclusion. >> he could have reached a conclusion. the opinion says you can indict a president while he's in office, but he could have reached a decision whether it was criminal activity, but he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained. >> congressman adam schiff, the chair of the house committee, called for his resignation. >> he could have shut down the mueller investigation at any time he wanted because he thought it unfair. that is a prescription for a president who is utterly above the law. >> schiff said he's undecided about whether the president should be impe

i think mueller is a true never—trumper.kes donald trump. didn't get a job that he requested, that he wanted very badly. and then he was appointed. and, despite that, and despite $40 million, 18 trump haters — including people that work for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth — they got nothing. it's pretty amazing. our north america editor, jon sopel, is here. the gloves are off, aren't they? he's been reluctant to take on mister mueller so far, why now? until now it has been gentle jabbing, saying he is an investigator gone rogue and that he had been conflicted. today it was mixed martial arts that donald trump went in for as he set about him with kicks and punches and blows anywhere he could to land on mueller‘s body. why now? because yesterday we heard from mueller himself for the first time in two years. and you had that statistic in your introduction about how few people have read the report. a much higher number will have heard robert mueller saying if we thought donald trump was innocent of ob

it's a classic case no matter how you look at it of what you call a trumper t tantrum. we have seen it before with donald trump. he stormed into his campaign and into this presidency with two signature issues -- railing on trade and against migrants, illegal migrants, notably with regard to mexico, calling them murderers and rapists. he never dropped that line. it has been consistent throughout his presidency. everything leads back to the wall. he never got the mononey he wand to build his wall. he first said he would make mexico pay. that didn't happen. then he shut down congress, partially shut down the federal government to get his money, no result. still didn't get it. he declares a national emergency to try to do an end run, to go around congress to get his money. courts blocked him from doing that. what does he do after that? he freezes foreign aid to guatemala, salvador, honduras. migrants are subject to rape, violence, threats of murder and so on. then what does he do? a few weeks ago he threatens to seal the mexican border with the united states, just seal the

obstruction ofjustice when in fact the detail doesn't suggest that and a course, we remember president trumpery saying he had been vindicated. that isn't exactly when you look at the detail. nothing was actually inaccurate or misleading seems to be the suggestion but there were emissions, failure to provide context. this interesting point. he asked if robert mueller supported these conclusions. we now know that on march the 27th, robert mueller said to him, he mischaracterised his findings. he was lying. we are learning a lot more now. the precise quote is it didn't capture the context, nature and substance of his offices, work that had gone on for two years and was explained in some considerable detail in that link the report. the complaint is, it was misleading. it seemed to clear the president when this is something that democrats are now picking up on, that it painted the president in a more positive light. thank you very much indeed. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we report on one of the world's critically endangered animals, the sumatran orangutan, and the industry that is fuel

i think mueller is a true never trumper. >> reporter: according to the mueller report, steve bannon told the president his claims that mueller was e conflicted wer ridiculous and petty.e thesident also toting mueller did not charge him with any crime. >> he said essentially you're iocent. i'm innocent of all charges. >> reporter: he is what mueller actually said. >> if we h had confidce that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. ne>> reporter: attory general william barr tells cbs he believes mueller could have offered a conclusion. despite the long-standing justice department policy th forbids indicting a sitting president. >> the opinion says you cannot indict a president while he'sin office but he could have reached a decisions to whether it was criminal activity. >> reporter: tonight, the drum beat of democrats calling for impeachment proceedings is growing, a move the president ys should not be allowed. >> to me it's a dirty word, the word impeach. it's a dirty, filthy, disgusting word and had nothing to do with me. h there was noh crime and there was

we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself and the report is my testimony now trumper the opposite from robert mueller he says he's in the clear nothing changes from the reports there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent the case is closed thank you then the white house press secretary clarified with the statement there was no real news and there he reiterated the points that he'd already made in the report. that we agree with them there was no collusion there was no conspiracy and we consider this case closed he completed his investigation now he's closed his office and it's time for everybody to move on the report has been published the investigation is long over but the saga continues both sides are sticking to what they said all along so you have to ask yourself if everyone was just going to keep saying what they've said the entire time impeached or no collusion why did we have the investigation to begin with. our new york legal and media analyst the lionel believes there was never any justification for the mower. the interest

quantum thinking jumping from move from the path that would start to discussing their vision mr pran trumper president proud trump is not is not the only one because at the end of the day what i was trying to do i was trying to be an observer of what is happening in the world today the thing where living exciting times and it is exciting times is that some of the beginning of the twenty first century we have accumulated huge knowledge. we inherited from twentieth century starting from the fathers of quantum physics and those great. scientists like albert einstein that had phenomena of a normal known known sort of a standard way of thinking but for him probably it was difficult to not to understand but to put the quantum behavior of particles into his own theory which was about the large scale of the universe eventually this is what we are going to get one day which is the unique unified theory of gravitation over everything. but if if you observe the world today we are seeing day after day huge examples of technological technological development rapid development people told it for the indus

i think mueller is a true never —trumper.didn't get a job he requested and despite that, despite $40 million, 18 mike trump haters, including people who work for hillary clinton and some of the worst human being on earth, they got nothing, it is amazing. ———— trump haters. live now to washington and our correspondent chris buckler. he is now staring like that make sounding like a man who is seriously rattled. yes, and it was in direct response to robert mueller. we have had time and time again from president trump he had been exonerated. robert mueller stood up and said actually that is not the case and i expect the words that have been ringing in the president's is, that phrase, if we were confident that he didn't commit a crime, we would have said though does said so. they did not say that about the president, there are still questions to be asked and of course, growing question — make pressure from congress to ask those questions. potentially what he referred to their is a dirty word of impeachment. it is also worth pointi