department of justice at the end of may 21000 when the special counsel's office was closed both mr moller and mr will be available to answer questions today i will be sworn in consistent with the rules of the house and the committee mr moller mr sublease appearance today before the committee is in keeping with the committee's longstanding practice of receiving testimony from current or former department of justice and f.b.i. personnel regarding open and closed investigative matters as this hearing is under oath and before before we begin your testimony mr mueller in zebley would you please rise and raise your right hands to be sworn swear. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give at this hearing is the whole truth and nothing but the truth thank. thank you the record reflect that the witnesses have been duly sworn ranking member thank you mr chair i just want to clarify that this is highly unusual for mr they'll be to be sworn in we're here to ask a director moeller questions he's serious counsel our side is not going to be directing any questions to mr zebley and w

moller was reluctant to give informative answers and repeatedly deflected questions by referring to his report. 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 ace 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. the movie actor rutger hauer has a dog at the age of 75 the hollywood stars agent confirming that howard passed away last week after a short illness after starting his career as a versatile leading man in the 1970 s. how work made his name playing darker more menacing characters he was best known for his role in the 1982 side classic blade runner. it was the role that turned him into a legend bricker hauer as roy batty an android on the run from a bo

moller was reluctant to give informative answers and repeatedly deflected questions by referring to his report. 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. 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 brings up 10 possible instances of obstru

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 same 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 all of are 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 exaggeration so he contradicted trump. that struck the most sort of the. or much jeff but it wasn't it wasn't a cathartic moment it was not a it was not a homerun for the democrats and so i think they will remain divided they've been divided it's a political issue i think impeachment. is very unlikely it was clear today that lawmakers one of the drive home the key points in this report i want you to ta

conducted by mr moller so i think all eyes and all ears are going to be on mr moller on july 24th so ask me again after that testimony where democrats are where americans are but i think we're getting closer to moments of accountability while i think we're suddenly getting closer to my moments of of people trying to come together and i'm glad to put that we all could come together for this discussion as as difficult as it has been so thanks very much to what our guests rina shah christopher metzler and christine put icy and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for a further discussion do go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from meanest on the attack and the whole team here life and. discover new developments in surgery i'm going to double up when i'm in hiroshima japan to meet the surgeon hiring new techniques in regenerating on knees and could a breakthrough medical trial provide some

thank you mr chairman mr moller well 1st let me ask you now and as consent mr chairman to submit this article robert muller and mast for the record that objection now mr moller who wrote the 9 minute comments you read edger may 29th press conference. back again and ok so that's what i thought you didn't write it a 2013 puff piece in the washingtonian about komi said basically when komi called you drop everything you were doing it gave examples you haven't dinner with your wife and daughter comit called you drop everything and go. 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 yo

conducted by mr moller so i think all eyes and all ears are going to be on mr moller on july 24th so ask me again after that testimony where democrats are where americans are but i think we're getting closer to moments of accountability while i think we're 70 getting closer to my moments of of people trying to come together and i'm glad to put that we all could come together for this discussion as as difficult as it has been so thanks very much to what our guests rina shah christopher metzler and christine put icy and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site al jazeera dot com and for a further discussion do go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from mina stasia take on the whole team here life and. my. right really so liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as it was that's what this job. how did it go paul and then these are the top stories on his era the u.s. house of representatives has voted to bl

said that he wouldn't go outside his report if there is plenty that a good lawyer could do to lead moller through the report and emphasize the things that the democrats want to be emphasized but unfortunately they rarely turn the questioning over to a lawyer who could probably early in effect cross-examine moller all right so we thank you very much for speaking to us from new york. congress has taken a major step towards reforming the country's bench and system a priority for president join europe balsa narrow pension system that is excuse me in the 1st of 2 votes the bill passed the lower house with a clear majority of supporters say the measures are needed to stave off another recession but there are many who still oppose it as priyanka gupta reports. the vote that brazil's president says will lead to prosperity but for some jerry both scenarios pension reform plan falls far short of steadily go over me while i am very ashamed what is happening here tonight on wednesday the lower house approved both scenarios plan with huge numbers in an initial vote yes the age here for these reforms a

conducted by mr moller so i think all eyes and all ears are going to be on mr moller on july 24th so ask me again after that testimony where democrats are where americans are but i think we're getting closer to moments of accountability while i think we're 70 getting closer to my moments of of people trying to come together and i'm glad to put that we all could come together for this discussion as as difficult as it has been so thanks very much to what our guests rina shah christopher metzler and christine put icy and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for a further discussion do go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from mena stasia take on the whole team here life and. the story goes that the statue of an ancient greek god he beneath the waves for millenia. until a palestinian fisherman on earth the priceless relic. the story continues that as the world's attention was drawn to. myste

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 at 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 ace 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 do you think a proper interrogation took place today i think there was an interrogation the problem was that mr mole is used to asking the questions and not answering them and many of his answers simply refer back to the report itself so i don't think that any of the people who are asking the questions got the answers they wanted to get today

thank you mr chairman mr crow mr moller we've heard a lot about what you're not going to talk about today so let's talk about something that you should be able to talk about the law itself the underlying obstruction statute in your creative legal analysis of the statutes in volume 2 to killer earlier interpretation of 18 u.s.c. 1512 c. section 1512 c. is an obstruction of justice statute created as part of auditing of financial regulations for public companies and as you write on page 164 of volume 2 this provision was added as a floor amendment in the senate and explained as closing a certain loophole with respect to document shredding and to read the statute whoever corruptly alters destroys mutilates or conceals a record document or other object or attempts to do so with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use and if it in an official proceeding or otherwise obstructs influences or impedes any official proceeding or attempts to do so so we find of the stature in prison for 20 years or both your analysis an application of the statute proposes to give clause c

mauler report confirms that there was so the gentleman and lawful reason to open the investigation the moller report explains that the f.b.i. started investigating possible coordination between the trump campaign and russia in response to information provided by a foreign government shortly after wiki leaks started releasing documents stolen by russia from the d.n.c. . the moeller report further explains that in late july 2016 shortly after waking leaks 1st started releasing information stolen by russia from d.n.c. computers australia told the f.b.i. that months earlier trump campaign advisor george papadopoulos had told us truly is top diplomat in britain that russia had dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of emails and that russia had indicated it could help the trump campaign by releasing those stolen e-mails to damage candidate clinton in fact the mother report concluded that trump campaign welcomed encouraged and expected to benefit electorally from russia's efforts we should be grateful for the work that law enforcement does to stop foreign governments from interfering in u

to the report on that i'm not to speak to that i'm again going to pass on that what was question moller kept it brief but he did confirm with the democrats one of the american people to hear the president has not been telling the truth about the investigation so the report did not conclude he did not commit obstruction of justice. that is correct and what about total exoneration if you actually totally exonerate the present. now in fact. your reports expressly states that it does not exonerate the person it does republicans fiercely defended the president when he said donald trump is not above the law he's not but he did i'm sure shouldn't be below the law which is where volume 2 of this work puts him and he knows he's innocent he's not corrupt really acting in order to see that justice is done what do you doing is not obstructing justice he is pursuing justice the former special counsel did seem to indicate the president could still face trouble from his report could you charge the president with a triumph after he left office yes you believe that he committed you could charge the pres

what this post moller washington look like -- mueller washington look like?id not agree with trump about no collusion but does not seem to have moved nancy pelosi any closer to going for impeachment. there is no indication republicans have moved at all. party was republican on display yesterday? richard: the new republican party, not a conservative party but the party of a person, donald trump. tom: i think for a lot of americans at was a republican even far removed from 2012, let alone 1980. richard: this is a fundamentally changed party based on a person rather than principles. yesterday did not change much. post mueller washington is where p -- pretty mueller washington 1 eller washington was. francine: give me an update on joe biden. is he the best option the democrats have? paul., -- hold that. boris johnson is just talking. johnson: i'm sure we will pay -- to our maidenhead. she has a great legacy on which we should all be proud. brexitsion is to deliver on the 31st of october for the purpose of uniting and reenergizing our great united kingdom and maki

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