"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. good evening, ari. you're in waiting for paul manafort sentencing mode. good luck. >> thank you. we expect it any moment. thank you, chuck todd. >>> there is big breaking news here. at any moment, as mentioned, a federal judge in virginia will be sent ansing donald trump's former campaign chief paul manafort. we know this will happen soon because they've already had one recess and are running late. we expect at 6:00 p.m. in this hour, we expect to get the sentence. this could be the biggest, most damaging day ever in the mueller probe so far. we know that because manafort faces up to 24 years in prison in the courtroom you're looking at alone in virginia. he faces ten more years for his case in d.c. time he might not have faced has he not broken his plea agreement. that sentencing is next week. now, paul manafort arrived in the courthouse this afternoon in a wheelchair. we could see from the sketches in our court reporters. in the green jumpsuit. the same as his last trip to court in october. this judge

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[laughter] >> you know, we both love ari. ari is such a great guy.to, sean, i was thinking, coming on the air tonight. how do you define beto? answer is, you don't. he is like that character from "ghostbusters," whatever you think of gozzer becomes and he game the stay puff marshmallow man. you ask the mediau about him running in texas, and they say he's a moderate. you ask about beto'sou vehicular incident that was very serious that was younger when the police showed up. these are youthful indiscretions.s. like every character data opoint they paint positively for beto so you project on him and he becomes whatever you want. notice how they cover trump. they cover these stories that are innocuous. he chooses two scoops of ice cream and it's meant to be fatalistic. look how awful donald trump is how they cover beto and donald trump is a microcosm where we are with the media. >> sean: ari, what's your take this is almost now the entire democratic party. >> yeah. so the entire democratic party runs off the platform to the far, far left. when you say bet

>> here's the interesting thing, ari.wo years of this, of driving, you know, countless people out of their jobs, causing all kinds of havoc in people's homes, mere witnesses, the mueller team finds themself at the end of the hallway, at the end of this entire game and they're staring at jerry corsi who believes the most wild conspiracies in the world, roger stone, and randy credico who wears women's underwear. that's where they find themselves. >> i don't know why you're getting into that. >> because dozens of years of yale law school education and they end at the freak show tent. >> well, look, we try to treat people with respect here. you're calling various people some including on the panel with you freaks. i want to keep it on point. let's look at the mueller indictment of stone on the substance of what you say which is that stone, according to mueller directed stone, not corsi, to contact the head of wikileaks. understand why people are looking at all this and saying if this is all it was, what mr. caputo just outlin

ari, i want to read you something.s is the reason i asked adam schiff in the previous segment about possible coordination between the district attorney in manhattan and the special prosecutor. i am reading -- it says hear, under the u.s. federal rules of criminal procedure, federal grand jury materials which are secret may be requested by local prosecutors if the evidence shows a violation of state law, and i learned that on august 29th, 2017, in a piece that you wrote, teaching me that, ari. what do you make of the possibility of coordination here. >> well, thank you, lawrence. as you say, we first broke that story in august 2017 that there were state-level investigations and that they could be pardon-proof, checkmating any interference donald trump wants to do. as you were discussing with congressman schiff and reporting tonight, that is exactly what happened. so this is significant because it basically means that the overwhelming evidence that was used in the federal cases, a lot of it is available in new york. ther

ari melber, thank you for staying with us tonight. and neal katyal joining us right after joining rachel. really appreciate that. jill wine-banks, we always need your perspective on this. we're really appreciative of you joining us tonight. thank you all very, very much. >> thank you. >> the special counsel's investigation is finished, but the southern district of new york, several attorneys general, state attorneys general, and congress still have work to do investigating the president of the united states. senate judiciary committee member chris coons will join us on what's next in congress. two former federal prosecutors will join us on the investigations that are still ongoing. and presidential historian michael beschloss will join us with an amazing historical echo of presidential investigations that occurred today. - my family and i did a fundraiser walk in honor of my dad, who was alzheimer's. i decided to make shirts for the walk with custom ink, and they just came out perfect. - [announcer] check out our huge selection of cus

ari melber, thank you for staying with us tonight. and neal katyal joining us right after joining rachel. really appreciate that. jill wine-banks, we always need your perspective on this. we're really appreciative of you joining us tonight. thank you all very, very much. >> thank you. >> the special counsel's investigation is finished, but the southern district of new york, several attorneys general, state attorneys general, and congress still have work to do investigating the president of the united states. senate judiciary committee member chris coons will join us on what's next in congress. two former federal prosecutors will join us on the investigations that are still ongoing. and presidential historian michael beschloss will join us with an amazing historical echo of presidential investigations that occurred today. ns that occurred today. rance shouldn't be more frustrating than the accident itself. that's why esurance makes it simple. just take some pics. [picture noises] go to sleep. wake up. grab a bite. maybe some racquetbal

and, you know, that, ari, takes me back to helsinki. that is a consistent finding with what the intel community has been telling the president over these many, many months. and i think about him standing there in helsinki, in spite of the fact that he had this information from the intel community and essentially saying that i believe this guy, and pointing at vladimir putin, as opposed to the people who are sitting in front of me, the intelligence community. bob mueller has really put in terms that are not intel speak a very compelling case, that the russians in fact did that which donald trump has seen so reluctant to admit. >> does the lack of the conspiracy indictment clear donald trump of collusion? >> i think it does. i mean, on the basis of what i have seen, i have not seen the mueller report. but certainly on the basis of the letter that attorney general barr put together, it would it seems to me that that is a substantial finding there. and i think it's good news for, you know, for the president and for his campaign. >> good new

the beat with ari melber starts now. good evening, ari. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i was getting excitement for some chuck todd delivery. never been less excited for the start of my show. i'm having mixed emotions. >> you screwed up the entire promotion. it is supposed to make you feel better. >> make me feel good! >> the big announcement, ari melber was starting on time, now it is 20 seconds late. >> now people know, we don't plan the tosses. your astute observation about overhyping of candidates is reminiscent of lebron. i don't know much about sports, i know he got in some trouble for overhyping. >> well done. that's a good reference. i'll give you that. >> thank you for the big setup. chuck todd with a big announcement. we have a big show, even though we didn't know he was doing that in the toss. look at what's happening now. let me show you this. roger stone new, could be jailed for violating the gag order, brand new order from a judge with a new hearing scheduled. if that story feels like it is repeating, remember, he was told this was his las

thank you. >> by, ari. >>> a big show including special guests. there are reports tonight that a public verse of this mueller report will be out within weeks. according to the doj that's big w this probe over, as katy and i were discussing we are getting inside scoops like we've never seen before, in fact, tonight for the first time ever on msnbc, the now famous convicted ex-trump aide who sparked the mueller probe then went to prison, we'll get into awful wit george papadopoulos. i'm going to get into a big question that i think we're all still wondering and trying to figure out, why so many lies including his confessed lie when there was no chargeable collusion? also what was it like in prison. get papadopoulos on "the beat." >>> big news on obamacare. >>> we begin with what is known about what bob mueller found. for all the talk about mueller's findings, no one outside of the doj as of this hour has seen them yet, instead we have attorney general bill barr's now famous letter, some democrats are calling it basically a press release. it states,

west jerusalem houses here is how it forces there so who is michael ben ari and why has he been banned. well he's the leader of this jewish power party known as me you heard it here in israel and that is a descendant of the very far right scott highness pts of the nineteen seventies and eighties and early ninety's under the rabbi meir kahane a rabbi a politician whose own party was banned in one thousand nine hundred eight and from running for the knesset in one nine hundred ninety two on the same grounds that it was a racist and dangerous entity this banning it overturns what happened in the election committee hearing on march the sixth when michael ben-ari was allowed to stand when the when the arab party around baghdad was barred from from standing as along with a far left jewish politician each of those decisions has now been entirely reversed in accordance with the opinion of israel's attorney general specifically on ben-ari italy general pine that he had incited racism he taken concrete steps towards supporting racism and the judges have endorsed that view by a margin of eight to

michael ben-ari is the leader of the us me a hoodie to a jewish power party which is the descendant of the harnessed party of the one nine hundred eighty s. led by the rabbi meir kahane of a party which itself was banned in one thousand nine hundred eight for its racist stance that is what has happened this time around the high court rather than banning the party vote is targeting michael been ari himself as an individual in accordance with the opinion of israel's attorney general of the judgment being eight to one ruling that he had indeed incited racism or taken concrete steps towards supporting anti arab anti palestinian racism his party though is still eligible to stand so his party colleague it and i've been banned via will still be able to stand for the knesset and the the reason that this is of such significance at this time is because the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu himself engineered a new lines between this party and other right wing parties to try to shore up the right wing vote make sure it was translated into seats in the israeli parliament the knesset on the

ari? >> ken dilanian, we'll come back to you. i turn now to natasha bertrand from the atlantic and she's always on air during the mueller stories. this is a big one and the other person we rely on, barbara mcquaid, msnbc contributor and former u.s. attorney. a person who has been in this position before, where you may turn things in and then you have bosses and they deal with them. for the sake of context for americans watching, typically when you turn something in from the long probe would the attorney general or your supervisor review it over the weekend and reach a judgment by sunday night? >> no. i have never seen anything like this before. in fact, i find it really curious that robert mueller was not the one to make the recommendation as to whether this did or did not constitute an offense for obstruction of justice. he said here are the facts and i leave it to you to make the call. the whole point of having a special counsel insulated from the chain of command is that that decision can be made with public confidence. i find

ari melber, thank you for staying with us tonight. and neal katyal joining us right after joining rachel. and jill wine-banks we always appreciate your perspective. the special counsel's investigation is finished, but the southern district of new york, several attorneys general, state attorneys general and congress still have work to do investigating the president of the united states. senate judiciary committee member chris coons will join us on what's next in congress. two former federal prosecutors will join us on the investigations that are still on going. and presidential historian michael beshlosch will join us with an amazing historical echo of presidential investigations that occurred today. that occurred today. 's dream and new ultimate lobsterfest surf and turf. so come lobsterfest today! and now for a limited time, get ten percent off red lobster to go. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. that's a win. but it's not the only reason i switched. geico's a company i can trust, with over 75 years of great savings and service

>> ari, last word?th that. >> also, on the green new deal, that resolution, not the questions withdrawn. the resolution calls for paid vacation. guaranteed jobs. family leave. retirement security. all people of the united states. somebody beto does that include illegal immigrants? people of the united states odd legislative language. that's open to including illegals. if i were a reporter, i would ask beto. >> sean: great question just like gavin newsom and comrade de blasio saying healthcare free in new york and all of california. by the way if you ever get sick just go to california it's free. anybody can go there. that's what they are saying. ari, thank you, and dan, thank you. when we come back fake news cnn stooping to even lower low. you won't believe what they compared ivanka and jared too. first rockets launched in israel today. they are firing back at this moment. we will get a live report from the israeli-gaza border where our crews just moments ago caught an on camera, a rocket being intercep

ari makes a good point. there is not one line in this four-page summary that quotes the mueller report directly. what william barr and rod rosenstein are asking the public and congress and everybody to do is trust their judgment. and we already know from william barr's confirmation hearings there were a lot of democrats who had deep reaggravations about whether they could trust his judgment, especially because of the letter he sent voluntarily to the president talking about executive privilege and what he sees this investigation as. >> yes. and i think the text is key. ari is right to study it. we should all study the text of this summary. because i think barr is telling us several things without out and out saying them. the if ifirst is that why inclu that statement of mueller's, that this does not exonerate the president and then add there is evidence on both sides? and then he also makes reference several times to the principles of federal prosecution. well, what do those tell us? the principles of federa

>> ari, you've got a great point.u were on the fence, if the neighbor said he didn't mow the lawn the right way, this would skate. if they say this guy shouldn't get a clearance, we have a big problem, so there is compromised availability. we simply don't know. all we know is they're reporting that the president overruled their recommendation. >> it's significant, it relates to what the career non-partisan people think about security and it gets you way out of this binary thing about mueller where, was it a felony or not? nobody is saying jared kushner is a felony here. not everything is about crime. the security folks said this is bad for national security, then the president came in, overruled them on nepotistic grounds and then kept lying about it. some stories are simple. this is one of them. frank, thank you, as always, for your expertise. >>> up ahead, there is new reporting on moscow and michael cohen. but first alan weisselberg who might be in the hot seat. what he knows. we'll be back in just 30 seconds. ows.

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great to have you with us, ari. there's an interesting twist to all this. it's changing the narrative a little bit in terms of what we saw unfold last week when michael cohen said he did not ask for a pardon. he would not even accept one. it seems now that the story is shifting at least, or the narrative is shifting. >> the journal's reporting that cohen's lawyers were potentially discussing this pardon. people can ask for pardons at any state in the process. trying to exchange a barter for one could be elicit. the other issue is basically is this the whole story or did the trump side do anything do encourage these discussions. that puts more pressure on them. you can give an absolute pardon power, but you can't exchange it for testimony. >> let me remind you of what michael cohen said last week, watch this. >> i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. >> when you compare those two, what we just played, what "the wall street journal" is reporting, does this constitute a lie? >> that depends. if that was to be borne out it coul

i'm ari melber. live from washington with special coverage of the mueller report.ttorney general william barr has a new letter that's begun to characterize special counsel robert mueller's report. first the letter makes it clear on the issue of election conspiracy bob mueller did not find chargeable conclusion. barr quotes mueller is stating members did not establish the campaign did not establish or coordinate with with the russian government in election activities. -- what barr himself writes, the report left unresolved what mueller viewed as difficult issues of law in fact concerning whether the president's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction. dud not conclude the president committed a crime. barr also notes the report does not exonerate him. that is pretty important. barr's letter today tries to go further and declare donald trump who, appointed barr did not obstruct justice. quote we've concluded the evidence is not sufficient to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. that's very important what you see here there and

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i'm ari melber. live from washington with special coverage of the mueller report.ttorney general william barr has a new letter that's begun to characterize special counsel robert mueller's report. first the letter makes it clear on the issue of election conspiracy bob mueller did not find chargeable conclusion. barr quotes mueller is stating members did not establish the campaign did not establish or coordinate with with the russian government in election activities. -- what barr himself writes, the report left unresolved what mueller viewed as difficult issues of law in fact concerning whether the president's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction. dud not conclude the president committed a crime. barr also notes the report does not exonerate him. that is pretty important. barr's letter today tries to go further and declare donald trump who, appointed barr did not obstruct justice. quote we've concluded the evidence is not sufficient to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. that's very important what you see here there and

in the meantime, "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. quonakinog. >> great to see you. >>> we're coming on the air during a surge of activity of democrats running for president. that's not based solely on candidates hitting msnbc tonight. kirsten gillibrand with our own chris hayes and cory booker appearing in iowa to take questions from chris matthews. nose are certainly high profile appearances in our neighborhood, yes. but there is also senator elizabeth warren campaigning at a mississippi town hall that will be televised by another network, and a new candidate on the scene taking the lead in the fundraising primary. beto o'rourke raising $6 million in his first day on the trail, as you may have heard by now, that's more than everyone, which is reshuffling early ideas about who the front-runner may be, as joe biden keeps popping up with signs that he wants to be wanted. that's not a song reference. that's just how he feels, and makes a claim that may, according to some, be hard to back up. >> i'm told i get criticized by the new left.

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i'm ari melber reporting with our live special coverage in washington. on the mueller report, this is a defining moment for the presidency, for the president and for the resistance. bob mueller did not find probable collusion. despite claims from attorney general barr, muler did not claim exemption of justice either. hey want attorney general barr to explain himself under oath. let's get right to it. former federal prosecutor paul butler, eleanor clift is here, and former federal prosecutor gene rossi. we've been doing a lot of law here on our special coverage. in a few moments, i'm going give my breakdown on all the crimes mueller busted and what he finds. eleanor, i turn to you on what washington thinks. who what do they think of this conclusion? what do they think of barr with a big swing with a big muscle move with the person with the biggest muscle associated with the doj bob mueller. >> the focus of the media has spent the last 22 months lauding robert mueller, the integrity of his investigation, spending a lot of time on every little jot and tiddl

is always a mic drop. >> ari, one of them.ey since the conclusion of the mueller report. you can watch that exclusive interview tonight, nbc's "nightly news" with lester holt. thank you for watching "velshi & ruhle" and ari melber. katy tur is right now ready. >> velshi and ruhle and melber. >> i like your papadopoulos' interview. >> i think it is interesting. >> his view of what he saw inside. >> yeah. super interesting and good job with that, ari, yeah -- i can't wait to see holder tonight. he is also interesting. i am sure he has a lot of opinions about the mueller investigation and how it ended and how he would have dealt with it if he was still ag. it is 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington. where if you like your healthcare, donald trump does not wou

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>>> welcome back, i am ari melber reporting on the mueller report. bob mueller did not find chargeable collusion. democrats calling for r a full releast of the report. let's get right to it our paul butler, eleanor cliff is here. a senior doj official and jean rossi. we have been doing a lot of laws here. eleanor, i turn to you on what washington thinks. what do they think of this collusion and barr who's taking a big swing with a big muscle move against the person who was the biggest muscle, affiliated with the doj, bob mueller. >> the resistance has spent the last 22 months with mueller and spending a lot of time and every jot and everything vhaving to d with russia. the results of this have really made a lot of democrats question whether they put their faith in the wrong horse. and no one is going to bail on robert mueller. i think that's not appropriate. right now i think they're looking at barr , at the attorny general and wondering how rigged this whole thing may have been going in. >> did he work it this weekend? >> well, those hours spent pou

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michael ben-ari is the leader of the us me a hoodie to a jewish power party which is the descendant of the harnessed party of the one nine hundred eighty s. led by the rabbi meir kahane of a party which itself was banned in one nine hundred eighty eight for its racist stance that is what has happened this time around the high court rather than banning the party vote is targeting michael been ari himself as an individual in accordance with the opinion of israel's attorney general of the judgment being eight to one ruling that he had indeed incited racism or taken concrete steps towards supporting anti arab anti palestinian racism his party though is still eligible to stand so his party colleague its i've been banned via will still be able to stand for the knesset and the root of the reason that this is of such significance at this time is because the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu himself engineer the new lines between this party and other right wing parties to try to shore up the right wing vote make sure it was translated into seats in the israeli parliament the knesset on

that could be the most interesting stuff, ari. that's the stuff that congressional democrats will demand to say. it may go to the counter intelligence question. the fbi went down a path where they launched a counter intelligence investigation trying to determine whether the president of the united states was comprised or influenced by foreign adversary. by russia. and congress has a right to know the result of that information under a separate intelligence reporting statute. the intelligence committees argue the fbi should come to them and brief them and tell them what they found. that would have to be in a classified setting. and nancy pelosi apparently said that's not acceptable to her. she doesn't think that the report should be shrouded in any kind of classification. she wants it to be briefed in the open so members can talk about it. >> so taking it back to the hill, obviously, the democrats are in a little bit of a pickle given how little information has come out. but the report did not end with further indictments. that's a

mean tile, ari melber joins me. epete said no m indictments. but sealed, would we expect to know what those wereabout? >> if there were any other sealed indictments, we would expect them to unsealed soon. as pete was reporting and it's important for everyone t understand. if this is the end and the mueller report is submitted tonight, and there are no other indictments revealed in the next moment. yes, you're looking at thesh sn of 20 months of this investigation. what are those? 37 total indictments to date. 34 of people, three of organizations t relatthe russian hacking. many of those have proceeded as discussed. this means the next thing that woul happen is number one the doj looks at this material and figures out what might become public, what might be shared with congress. and number two there are open cases. roger stone was indicted by bob muellernd aits trial. the d.c. prosecutors and regular machinery will move forward. it's a big a dealer 20 months this is where bob mueller got to and if there are no other unsealed indictments he will

ari, let me start with you. just heard the comments from senator mcconnel. do you think that maybe washington can put this behind them? >> oh, no, of course not. the anti-trump sentiment is so deep and central to everything the democrats are motivated by they cannot put this beyond them. they're already looking to the southern district of new york to take it to the next step and investigation. the problem they have is you can only cry wolf so much. and they cried it too much for two years. i think the public wants a pause. if there's any new findings and facts the public will pay attention but i think the public will blow past them. >> your thoughts? >> the president clearly not entitled to any apology. at the time the republican attorney general launched the investigation there was contact between senior trump officials an agents. it's indispute the russians sought to undermine the election. and the full mueller report should come out so the public can evaluate all the findings and if in fact what has been reported is true there could be arguments about mov

thank you for joining us tonight. >> ari, it's great to be here. thank you for having me. >> what do you see as significant on the presidential side, meaning this is the current president, how is he governing whether or not the house ultimately decides there is an abuse of power, as distinct from i think what everyone saw michael cohen testify to was all kinds of terrible -- allegedly stuff if you want to be charitable in the hearing last week. what do you see as important about him as president? >> let me just say this. mr. cohen, michael cohen was extremely cooperative today as he was the first time we interviewed him, as he was in the oversight and government reform hearings. the more i hear testimony from michael cohen, look at physical evidence and talk to others, you know, there's been a rumor that the president had no idea that he was going to win the election. i believe that that -- i believe that more and more the more i listen simply because i don't believe there is anyway that the president would have run believing that he would win and

apologies for that illiteration if obstruction took place, ari?dely can shed more light on what were the reasons that donald trump seemed to repeatedlyit interfere these probes, instruct people to mislead or lie, was there something underlying? and the theory had been that might be the collusion. it might be other related problems that national security officials cares about or the congress cares about that are not what has been called for example, if somebody high on the government owes a foreign power a lot of money and that has corrupted foreign policy that's a big deal, but that might not be the thing a special counsel charges. >> we have an array of issues in public that we've covered that have some people believing that obstruction -- you have the suggestion of comey to drop the flynn probe. you have theiring of comey when he cited the russia thing, calling for thettorney general fire mueller, dangling the possibility of pardons and this is the public record. do you expect mueller, if -- do you expec him to be so focused on his charge that h

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and they had to wait on the free acts that ari was talking about. until they actually shoved the texans back to san antonio. that's why they had to wait, until july of 1862. they had to make sure that the way was clear for them to focus on the new america. so there are several arguments that we can make about how these particular campaigns then shaped the war in the east. that it made it easier for the union army to focus on those battles in virginia. they didn't have to worry about syphoning off their own troops to send them to the west to really engage larger armies. and then we can sort of say let's talk more about the union army's multiple goals in this conflict. and that these are stories that need to be told. because these were happening. and yes, of course, some people didn't care about them. and of course most of america's soldiers were engaged in other regions. and there was a huge loss of life there that we didn't see quite so much in the west. but i don't think calling attention to this and broadening the geographic and chronological scop

i'm ari melber and live from washington with special coverage of the report. and observes that the president did not obstruct justice. first the letter makes it clear on the issue of conspiracy mueller did not find collusion. conspired or coordinated with the russian government in election interference activities. second, the mueller report does not exonerate trump of obstruction of justice. that remains an open issue. we know that tonight because of what barr himself writes. that the report left unresolved concerning whether the president's action and intent could be viewed as obstruction. barr notes that mueller also does not exonerate him. so that's pretty important. but barr's letter today tries to go farther and declare donald trump who appointed barr did not obstruct justice. quote, rod rosenstein and i have concluded the evidence is not sufficient to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice defense -- offense. that's very important in what you see there. and we have a special tonight going to tell you everything you need to know about

. ♪ >>> welcome back, i am ari melber reporting on the mueller report.ob mueller did not find chargeable collusion. democrats calling for r a full releast of the report. let's get right to it our paul butler, eleanor cliff is here. a senior doj official and jean rossi. we have been doing a lot of laws here. eleanor, i turn to you on what washington thinks. what do they think of this collusion and barr who's taking a big swing with a big muscle move against the person who was the biggest muscle, affiliated with the doj, bob mueller. >> the resistance has spent the last 22 months with mueller and spending a lot of time and every jot and everything having to do with russia. the results of this have really made a lot of democrats question whether they put their faith in the wrong horse. and no one is going to bail on robert mueller. i think that's not appropriate. right now i think they're looking at barr, at the attorney general and wondering how rigged this whole thing may have been going in. >> did he work it this weekend? >> well, those hours spent pouri

>> i think ari and neil did a good analysis. the fact is what is in this letter to us said first mueller was not making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. those are interesting words. and then said as you well said, he did not draw a conclusion one way or the other on obstruction. does not draw that conclusion. it also does not exonerate the president. and when rudy says it's better than expected, they must have been expecting worse. the fact is, the judiciary committee is the elected people's house. bill barr was not elected by anybody. trump attacking mueller said he wasn't elected by anybody. bill barr wasn't elected by anybody norman rod rosenstein. congress was elected. we need to so all the information to make a conclusion to get information to pub politic make a determination of obstruction of justice to have the trump team being involved with collusion. no collusion but obstruction. that's important. the people's house needs to know and it the people's house needs to have the complete report so that we can have hearin

"the beat with ari melber" start s right now. >>> a lot of stories on "the beat" tonight. nancy pelosi making the news, declaring her standard tonight for what it would take to impeach president trump. she says, quote, this is news. i'm going to be joined live by one of her top lieutenants on that unfolding story from the hill. >>> later, an insider speaks out on the stormy daniels hush money payments and corroborating parts of michael cohen's allegations against trump. >>> also, more news on the campaign from elizabeth warren, including some of the news she broke right here on this show on friday. >>> but we begin with bob mueller grinding down two former trump aides. this is a pivotal week in the mueller probe. you've got one federal judge who will issue rulings that will define the fate and possibly the freedom of both roger stone and paul manafort, two former trump aides who've also worked together for decades. and it's through their work on behalf of donald trump that both men are now in position. they both await rulings from amy berman jackson. she is known as a pret

most an aries uses if he were here to attack part. the executive branch of the government's. seen those reports that due to privacy considerations were unable to comment further. as was the journalist who broke the story for the news website we need to say they were apparently going to transfer eighty million dollars out of the petrel caribbean account in haiti in the bank to another account which would be under the control of president joe from elmo we see the petro caribbean account required authorization if you will from modi's his then prime minister. and the bank president. dubois so this was apparently their mission they entered haiti many of them without stamping their passport without going through immigration without going through customs they had come in with weapons which is a violation not just of u.s. law but haitian law pressure from the u.s. embassy had been released in a completely illegal manner i spent a week in haiti speaking to haitian police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who had any knowledge at all of this operation s