that he shouldn't have even looked at obstruction of justice because that wasn't his mandate because mahler is basically saying look the president could face obstruction of justice charges which is no longer president but the justice department says a sitting president can't be indicted that's probably the biggest takeaway from the hearing that's far which i think a lot of people expected would be a little bit more a little bit more exciting than it actually did. thank patty let's go over now to elizabeth she's an associate professor of american studies and political science at george washington university joins us from washington d.c. good to have you with us let me start 1st of all elizabeth with the question of how do we heard this and they're saying well we were never really expecting any bombshells to drop here but anything that takes perhaps the public perception at least in any new direction. well i think that the hearing started out in a really interesting way when the democratic chairman jerrold nadler said 3 times repeating you did not exonerate trump and muller said yes to all 3

article quoted komi is saying of a train were coming down the track and i quote at least bob mahler will be standing on the tracks with me. you and james comey at been good friends or work good friends for a for many years correct our business associates started off in the justice department about you were good friends you can work together not be friends but you were how many were friends we were friends of my question thank you for the answer now before you were appointed a special counsel. had you talked to james komi in the preceding 6 months know when you were appointed as special counsel. was president trump's firing of komi something un dissipated investigating potentially obstruction of justice get into. at the internal deliberations of the justice department actually it goes to your credibility and maybe you've been away from the courtroom for a while credibility is always relevant it's always material and that goes for you jim you're a witness before us let me ask you when you talked to president trump the day before you appointed or you were appointed as special counsel you we

then the house democrats decided to subpoena him robert mahler gave in. answering the question questions but also because of other order he received from the department of justice is very strictly sticking to what's inside the mall or records. all over we know that he speaks to the u.s. house judiciary committee 1st later answering intelligence committee questions the opposition democrats hope to gain some fresh insights here do we expect him to say anything new or because of that rule that he may not say anything else than what's inside the malo report. 3 we don't expect him to say anything new but that's not a problem most democrats are happy with that one democrat just said one lawmaker said we want him to say what's inside the mall or porter let me just pull this up those are $448.00 pages now this is a very heavy to digest piece of paperwork and it's going to be very difficult for your average american voter to read that of course you can't expect a majority of the americans read that and what they're trying to get here is nothing new out of mahler b

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sure less familiar with the volume to discussion in the morning on obstruction this might reflect mahler's greater interest in russia generally in counterintelligence generally and less interested in some of the technicalities of the executive branch and obstruction all a lot of people on all sides of the political special did remark on his handling of the questions and his general performance as as a witness and to some it it kind of raised questions about the degree to which he was actually in charge and in control of this report what it was what's your take on that. i think that's right i think 1st of all it was a massive effort we have to recognize that miller's team brought so many cases so many prosecutions and had so many convictions trials and especially guilty pleas from so many people that it was impossible for muller to supervise all of that and i think it's clear that muller was more engaged in certain questions than others i found that he was really disengaged and unaware or not able to answer lots of legal questions i think he supervised a lot he delegated a lot that's kind o

yes thank you mahler was reluctant to give informative answers and repeatedly deflected questions by referring to his report this trump whose reputation is at stake claim to have little interest in the hearing and i know i'm not going to be watching probably maybe i'll see a little bit of it i'm not going to be what watching moller. because you can't take all those bites out of the apple we had no collusion no obstruction we had no nothing we had a total no collusion finding but a series of tweets fired off by trump as the hearing was underway made clear that the president was watching he saw a special counsel determined not to take sides in a divided congress. blue cross joins us now here in the studio so. u.s. president donald trump did he obstruct justice or not did we get any closer to answering that question today well i can answer that question i'm sure jerry nadler the chairman of the judiciary committee would like to speak with me as probably about 20 other presidential democratic presidential candidates what we can say is what we do know from the report that the report bring

blockbuster because what's happening and this is the major problem here is that you have these 448 pages of mahler report that's very hard to digest not only for lawmakers and journalists but also for your average american voter and that is what the democratic party and the committees here 1 were trying to achieve is to get robert moller out on live t.v. and sensually repeating what's in the report but as sound bites and live on national television. overlook this to prove or all of the save page i got my copy here to the 400 page report you had to flip through it today during the testimony boards did the world learn anything that it didn't already know. today don't really know if i would totally agree with what oliver said i mean this is the point was to create soundbites the thing is maybe the democrats succeeded in getting muller to reiterate a couple of his positions he was very clear on the point that this was not an exoneration so he contradicted trump and his. destruction the most sorts of things. or much jeff but it wasn't it wasn't a cathartic moment it was not a it was not a homerun for t

yes thank you mahler was reluctant to give informative answers and repeatedly deflected questions by referring to his report this trump whose reputation is at stake claim to have little interest in the hearing i know i'm not going to be watching probably maybe i'll see a little bit of it i'm not going to be what watching moller. because you can't take all those bytes out of the apple we had no collusion no obstruction we had no nothing we had a total no collusion finding but a series of tweets fired off by trump as the hearing was underway made clear that the president was watching he saw a special counsel determined not to take sides in a divided congress. well joining us now from miami is a former u.s. federal prosecutor david weinstein and mr weinstein it's good to have you on the program but you are a former prosecutor yourself there are several former prosecutors on that house judiciary committee today they were tests with basically trying to interrogate robert mohler did you think a proper interrogation took place today. well i think there was an interrogation the problem was t

you expect a lot of new material to come out of these hearings here today if you expected robert mahler to liver anything substantial to what's already in the report then you might be disappointed right now 3. that was not the purpose of these hearings and the democrats really did not consider this to happen at all robert mala actually was even given the order yesterday by the department of justice to strictly focus on the report one democratic lawmaker even said the main goal is to get driver dollars say what robert rowe it's now if you want you can consider these hearings here today is something like a political blockbuster because what's happening and this is the major problem here is that you have these 448 pages moller report that's very hard to digest not only for lawmakers and journalists but also for your average american voter and that is what the democratic party and the committees here were trying to achieve is to get robert moller out on live t.v. sensually repeating what's in the report but as sound bites and live on national television overlook just to prove or all of the

trump campaign and the russian government or any attempt by the white house to obstruct justice mahler's report concluded that the evidence was insufficient to completely exonerate its a president interference we now take you live to listen to special counsel robert muller. rather we focused on whether the evidence was sufficient to charge any member of the campaign with taking part in a criminal conspiracy and it was not. 3rd our investigation of efforts to obstruct the investigation and lie to investigators was of critical importance of struction of justice strikes at the core of the government's effort to find the truth and to hold wrongdoers accountable finally as described in volume 2 of our report we investigated a series of actions by the president towards the investigation east on justice department policy and principles of fairness we decided we would not make a determination as to whether the president committed a crime that was our decision then and it remains our decision today let me say a further word about my appearance today it is unusual for a prosecutor to testify about

special counsel robert mueller will answer questions before congress under subpoena next month match mahler's report is damning but you would have to read it to see so and few americans have culturally we tend not to read the book we'd rather watch the t.v. show but mensch what is left to learn from him 30 seconds what's left real quickly is whether he actually gets to read passages into the record most specifically where he had the common. more or less that said if we believe the president was innocent of obstruction we would have said so that'll be must see t.v. remember the attorney general barr gave his own version which was totally i'm sorry insane and inappropriate moeller will add context and actually again if he gets to the words of key points of the report i think it will have some impact if he had done it earlier in the process before barr entered it would have had tremendous impact steve apologies but we're out of time thank you steve malzberg and mitch caesar and that you do for watching the big picture if you see us somewhere else you can now also watch r t america live youtube d

this hearing in 3 hours given the break that would bring us to approximately 1140 with the rector mahler's indulgence we will be asking our remaining democratic members to voluntarily limit their time below the 5 minutes so that we can complete our work as close to that time frame as possible they recognize the gentle lady from pennsylvania thank you director mueller i want to ask you some questions about the president's statements regarding at vance knowledge of the wiki leaks dumps so the president refused to sit down with your investigators for any in person in your view correct correct so the only answers we have to questions from the president are contained in appendix c.t.r. report ok so looking at appendix c. on page 5 us the president over a dozen questions about whether he had knowledge that we possessed or might possess the e-mails that were. stolen by the russians i apologize sure started again ok sure so we're looking at appendix c. . appendix c. page 5 us the president about a dozen questions about whether he had knowledge that wiki leaks possessed the stolen e-mails that migh

mahler is one of 7 astronauts preparing for what may be the next manned flight to the moon liftoff could be in 2024. they station from our is the astronaut training center at the european space agency in cologne. there's a new race to the moon not between the soviet union and the u.s. like 50 years ago this is much more of an economic race it's about being the 1st to fly to the moon the 1st to achieve dominance in space. china is investing heavily in space technology so much he has mauer is learning mandarin as well as russian he wants to work with chinese astronauts and eventually fly to their planned space station. the chinese space capsule will have a weight limit for astronauts 75 kilos so fitness is a key part of training. this is a typical exercise that prepares you for space in a space suit is so tight that you can practically only use your arms there's a risk of injuring your shoulder muscles. next stop berlin has come to this planetarium to persuade politicians and business leaders to support the moon mission. please complete the sentence i'm glad that people are going back to t

of our report and that is exactly what the democrats are after here they are trying to get robert mahler called firm certain points off this report and get this out to a broader public on television and we might just like to ask you a question because you know we're hearing a lot of really big details in this testimony right now but you know for those who haven't been following. this investigation very closely to put it put this into the broader context what are we seeing playing out today in washington well for the democrats' perspective to control this committee and control this hearing they want to remind or really remind americans what this is all about what actually happened a lot of people have not as you've noted read the report of a glance at analyses or just summaries even members of congress haven't even read it so for a lot of people it's their 1st time hearing this also the report is of course investigation it's highly technical. highly complicated so democrats hope to state the facts that are in the report as muller said he's not going to go beyond the facts of the report bu

but there have been a lot of questions that have been raised about one of mahler's capacity to actually teach in people who would be returns to it who are in need of protection what amala is a signatory of the un refugee convention which the us has pointed to in the past is suggesting that they are able to in asylum seekers but the state department itself within the last year has said that what i'm on asylum system doesn't necessarily have the capacity to identify people who are in need of protection the system itself isn't used to receiving a lot of asylum claims. that you would be able to return large numbers of people to guatemala and see them actually effectively receive asylum is questionable present trump is not just pushing guatemala but also mexico to act as a buffer zone and at the same time he's gotten the ok now from the supreme court to build his border while using military funds so these are being seen as big victories for the company ministration but so then will a wall and this deal with when it curb illegal immigration in the u.s. what's the situation right now at the us

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may have stated in response to questions so that is correct president trunk told don mcgann quote mahler has to go close quote correct. your report found on page 89 volume 2 that substantial evidence in the case that by june 17th the president knew his conduct was under investigation by a federal prosecutor who could present any evidence of federal crimes to a grand jury true true the 3rd element. 2nd element having just been satisfied the 3rd element of the crime of obstruction of justice is corrupt intention to true corrupt intent exists if the president acted to obstruct an official proceeding for the improper purpose of protecting his own interests correct. that's generally correct thank you i want to you know one thing i would say is we are going through the 3 elements of. of the proof of the. structure of adjusted charges when in fact the matter is. we got up just one second well thank you mr miller let me move on and interest of time upon learning about the appointment of a special counsel your investigation found it down some stated to then attorney general quote oh my god this i