why didn't robert mueller investigate the investigators?hy didn't robert mueller and his band of 18 angry democrats spend any time investigating crooked hillary clinton, lying and leakin james comey, lisa page and her psycho lover, peter -- andy mccabe, the beautiful ohr family, fusion gps, and many more, including himself and andrew w so why didn't the highly conflicted robert mueller investigate how and why crooked hillary clinton deleted and acid washed 33,000 emails immediately after getting a subpoena from the united states congress she must have great lawyers! >> "no collusion, no obstruction! >> "the greatest witch hunt in u.s. history, by far!" >> seth: dear god, his tweets would make more sense if they were scribbled on paper and faxed to a newspaper under the zodiac symbol. [ laughter ] but at the very least, today's hearings might have been informative, both for trump and for members of congress who've admitted they didn't read the whole report more than a dozen members of congress readily admitted to politico that they too have

[ light laughter ] >> i have not read the mueller report i haven't seen the mueller report as far ased i don't care about the mueller report. >> seth: i mean, i'm not surprised he didn't read it but it's jarring when he just comes out and admits it. he's like a guy at a book club whose had a few glasses of wine, going, "i guess if i'm being totally honest, my favorite part of '50 shades of grey' was the cover because i did not read it." [ laughter and applause "and also, we are out of pinot [ laughter ] by the way." so for four months trump has been saying the report completely and totally exonerated him how does he feel now that mueller said explicitly, on national television, that he did not exonerate trump? >> there is no such a thing. he didn't have the right to exonerate. you know, it's very interesting. people mention exoneration that was something where he totally folded, because he never had the right to exonerate >> seth: donald trump has a tell whenever he goes, "you know, it's very interesting," he's about to lay out some five star bull [ bleep ] [ laughter ] so mueller ma

i'm not sure mueller knows what's going on. i know he said no collusion with us. no collusion and ultimately no obstruction because it led to no obstruction by a very smart group of people, including our attorney general. so no collusion, no obstruction. as far as mueller's performance, you would have to say it was maybe not so good. >> about that first response by the president, you don't really believe that. never before has our country felt more vulnerable to attack in real time, in this case because we've been told we're under an ongoing attack in real time, while at the same time that view is not shared by the head of our government who took the oath about preserving and protecting our way of life. his view now famously extends to his enforcer in the senate who has now been tagged with the nickname moscow mitch, born in this very studio, for not even allowing election hardening legislation to be brought up for a vote before the senate. don't take our word for it. it was just last week the senate intelligence committee released a report that concluded, russia

that's where we go to the mueller report to what if anything will be done what the mueller team found. today, the 118th democrat supports the start of an impeachment inquiry of the president. that means a majority of democrats in the house of representatives now support it. it also marks the 25th member to come out in support an impeachment inquiry since robert mueller's testimony last week. while nancy pelosi has declined to back an impeachment inquiry, today she released a statement on the progress of house investigations. and noting ominously that in america, no one is above the law. the president will be held accountable. while the investigations continue and calls for impeachment grow on one side of the aisle, on the other side, more republicans are heading for the exits. the latest congressman will hurd of texas became the sixth republican to announce their retirement. his exit causes more headaches for a party that already lost susan brooks, one of just 13 women in the house. and brooks had been in charge of recruiting more women to run as republicans. they'll have to give that

that is how mueller attributes it. rick gates recalled candidate trump being generally frustrated that hillary clinton's emails had not been found. in one heavily redacted passage mueller writes not only was it centered around the leaks but trump himself appeared to be aware of the upcoming data dumps. according to gates, by the late summer of 2016 the trump campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign and messaging based on the possible release of hillary clinton's emails by wikileaks. quote while trump and gates were driving to la graurd airport, redaction, redaction, redaction, quote, sortly after the call candidate trump told gates that more releases of damaging information would be coming. rick gates was also there in the auction 2016 meeting at a new york city cigar bar that included paul manafort and his long-time business parter, con stand teen kilimnic. manafort briefed kilimnik on the campaign and the internal polling data. according to dates it included discussion of battleground states

tonight, mulling mueller.s, stephen welcomes jeff goldblum and aisha tyler, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: whoo! thanks, everybody! please have a seat! very nice! delightful. what a lovely group of people here tonight. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert. everyone is still talking. ( cheers and applause ) everybody out there is still talking about former special counsel robert mueller's appearance on capitol hill, six hours of testimony. it was so long that by the end we all felt as old as robert mueller looked. ( laughter ) and at the hearings, mueller confirmed that the president of the united states was not ( as trump ) totally exonerated. ( laughter ) mueller also agreed that trump obstructed the investigation multiple times, russia tampered with the election in trump's favor, and that the president welcomed that help, lied about

president, robert mueller said russia is interfering in u.s. right now. >> you don't really believe this, do you? >> reporter: he said that last week. >> we didn't talk about that. >> what are you thinking? >> it fits into the pattern where the president has repeatedly cast out on the notion that russia interfered in the u.s. election despite the widespread conclusion by the intelligence community that's what happened. it was just a week ago that robert mueller when he was asked to really characterize american public from his two-year long investigation, he said it was about the urgency to the american democracy when it comes to this broader threat from russia and said in some of his most pointed words that they're still doing it, they're doing it as we sit right here and the president continues to cast doubt on whether that's the case and has not taken many actions to teak stop it from happening. >> dan coats, he's public lily disagreed with him on many open cas cases. >> and we're not working with russia on anything demonstrably. we haven't s

>> anyone who watched special counsel mueller's testimony before congress or read the mueller report, there are three conclusions. first that the russians attacked us in a systemic and speech sweeping manner in 2016, second the trump campaign embraced that attack and planned their campaign separate fungi around the attack and the third that the president engaged in numerous acs of obstruction to stop the investigation into russia interference. so what the american people and other members of congress do with those facts we'll know in the next few months and speaker caucus. she's an amazing leader. whatever she decides i will of what you're saying is what did the mueller hearing do to move people who might not have known as much about it? >> most of the reaction was from people, political, civic, whatever, who knew a lot about it. there was a fixation on the performative aspect on the fact that mr. mueller some of us have covered for a long type, he looked considerably older. he did not react to all the questions he had bef. for some people that was a shock, reportable fact. you're say

mueller's report has been focused on volume one. i've been working with a bipartisan group of freshmen to make sure that these types of interferences can never happen again in our democracy. and so either my work on homeland security or with this bipartisan group task force, we are addressing volume one. to get to your other point, i think it's important for folks to realize that the voters in illinois knew before mr. mueller's report came out that we had been attacked in our state. our election systems had been attacked. so prior to the 2018 election, folks were concerned about the validity of the election and the potential for this to happen again. and so when his report came out calling out illinois as the only state in the report that had been compromised, this was something that representing the got people of illinois 14th district i had to spend time investigating. i can't speak for the whole caucus and i would never want to, but what i can say is this. we need to get access to that unredacted report. we need to get access to

is the president still going after mueller? why is he still talking about a witch-hunt? and we saw in that statement that the white house put out today about comey, the first line seems transcribed directly from the president's mouth, calling him, comey is a liar and leaker. this is something the president will take this little tidbit and if history is any indication, he's going to run with it through -- who knows how long, potentially through 2020. if it turns out to be a good rally line f. it turns out to rouse his base, something maybe going negative on immigration and he can return to comey. >> harry litman, i want to step back for a minute and look at the sweep of history, of what we need. the first 22 months of the he trump presidency did focus, almost exclusively here at least, on this question of collusion with russia and on the president's effort to obstruct the information that robert mueller was conducting. hutch of that was put in motion by what we learned from jim comey's memos? when the ministry is totaled, how bi

it was mueller 2.0. it was this time with them i am looking very frail this was backed by tremendous -- again 12 hours of silence. the democrats now say it was the republicans. so it's interesting how it is repeating itself. >> and one thing in your book over and over, it is a low level of trust in the institution of media. i want your thoughts on something you talk about with barack obama in the coverage with him. you see senator obama said it was a friend of obama he has got such great publicity all of his life that one of his friends joke to me this morning, he is throwing his halo into the ring. so,. >> to what extent do you think the victory of donald trump who is certainly that is looking at the institution of media, and to extent do you think barack obama is presidency to the rise of donald trump. >> i think barack obama triggered it. >> barack obama was the outsider. i'm an essay for years that a republican businessman was going to run for president. and i think barack obama and zero we allow tha

one of the surprise revelations from the mueller report and from mueller's testimony to congress was that mueller and his team didn't do a financial investigation pertaining to the president, his business, his family. although robert mueller repeatedly asserted unequivocally that financial entang lts particularly secret financial entanglements are a primary means of foreign governments compromising u.s. persons, gaining leverage over americans including people in u.s. politics. mueller asserted any such investigation into the president, into whether president trump might have had those kind of compromising financial ties, that was viewed in the special counsel's office they saw that as a counter intelligence matter and not what they were doing, and so they didn't do it. if there were illegal or illicit or even just secret dealings involving foreign entities that could be traced through the president's personal and business finances, that obviously would be of serious national security interests, serious counter intelligence interests. it would be a very important thing to know partic

and it was i think jarring for some to see a different bob mueller. he did look older and he was quite concise and he made it clear that he was not going to play a lot of ball. so that was the day of. but as we've reported tonight, you have now dozens more joining this, and then you're going to come back in september, and cory lewandowski, if it doesn't change, going to be publicly questioned under oath about what mueller said were obstruction. >> i think it's going to matter tremendously because i think the piece that has been missing here for the american public is exactly what these witnesses said to robert mueller because the report is so dense and because mueller was just going to stick to read my report. so, when people that err what these witnesses like cory learn skofrp ski are essentially directed to lie or obstruct by donald trump, i do think that's going to matter. and i think the mistake, and i say mistake lightly because it's a difficult decision and position to be in is not forcing witnesses to testify publicly because the issue here in

what are some of the key differences between your work and that of of mueller's? >> let me mention two. one is the method of appointment. after the 21 year experiment and the independent counsel arena congress sought not to reauthorize the independent counsel of law. i applauded that. we in the reagan administration when i charred -- started as chief of staff objected to the special prosecutor provisions as raising serious policy questions but it was also an unconstitutional invasion of the powers of the president. i said well wait a second. it was okay to fire archibald cox who was appointed by the attorney general? no, it wasn't okay. was an obstruction of justice but look at what happened. the acting attorney general bob bork within 11 days of leon jaworski of good baylor man i might say leon jaworski carried on the investigation and the rest of course is all history. the old system worked in a little bit more study of history, history is a great teacher. i'm airing because it's a great teacher. would tell us that ulysses s. grant fired special counsel of his t

mueller left it up to the justice department.he attorney general and the deputy attorney general closed that book. if congress wants to act independently they have the right to do that. but they haven't done it. >> that's not what mueller said. he said it's up to congress to act. >> shannon: why aren't they? are some threads starting to come together? if they were serious about this, they would not go away for 6 weeks. >> i think there is a lot of cynicism and politics at hand. that's not where we should make a decision from. we should make a decision best for the country. high crimes and misdemeanors seems far away. >> it's in the constitution. >> of course it is. but you are talking about public trust. it's a basic thing and this president lost it of his own accord. >> shannon: you have another 100 house members to get the numbers where they need to be. williams wrote if you tell voters who opposes free college for rich kids or think border jumping should remain a crime is really a republican, the whole electoral map will turn

i think if you look at what mueller laid out, mueller said in his report that because witnesses includingucted because they lied, because they tampered with evidence and destroyed evidence, because they refused to testify, they were not able to fully understand what happened in the russian investigation because the president is shielded from obstruction of justice charge. he wasn't held accountable there, either. we're the backstop here so we can't let his obstruction of congress go without him being held to account. >> congressman jerry connolly, a loyal leadership follower of the house of representatives came out in favor of impeachment and said we cannot allowdesensitized no consequences. he continues to debase the office he holds. he has fear and insighted violence and called american communities infested and told members of congress to go back to where he came from and stokes flames by referring to an invasion of foreigners and questioned the allegiance of fellow americans at every moment whether in the aftermath of charlottesville or el paso or dayton and failed to hear our country

the long term post mueller period is a pattern.oved from a minority of house democrats supporting impeachment to now a majority. and pelosi is covering that earlier in the show. then you have the backdrop of donald trump. how does he act in this period? does he feel unbridled even facing that and these economic jitters? and i don't know what you want to call them, take a look from this week at some of the things he's been up to. >> any jewish people that vote for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. >> isn't that anti-semitic? >> no, it's only in your head. >> so we're talking about indexing. >> i'm not looking to do indexing. >> i've been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time. >> i'm not looking at a tax cut now. dwoe we don't need it. we'll by up background checks like we never had before. >> we very, very strong back ground checks now. >> it was an absurd idea. it was nasty. you don't talk to the united states that way. at least under me. excuse me, some had been to do it. i a

he picked a texas republican congressman john ratcliffe after the hearing with r0sh9 mueller. so sfwhapd here is kyra phillips. >> reporter: congressman john ratcliffe didn't even a make it as week as president trump's choice for director of national intelligence before the president pulled the plug. >> i asked him, i said, "do you want to go through this for two or three months or want me to maybe do something else?" he thought about it. i said, "it's going to be rough." >> reporter: ratcliffe's nomination, embattled from the start. the president picked him just four days after the congressman lashed into robert mueller. >> donald trump is not above the law. he's not, but he damn sure shouldn't be below the law. >> reporter: democrats called ratcliffe partisan and unqualified. >> the president is more interested in getting a loyalist than someone who will speak truth to power. >> reporter: republicans grew concerned as ratcliffe's resume came under scrutiny. abc news reporting the congressman falsely claimed to have prosecuted and "convicted" people funneling money to terrori

when you look at that audition, when he was grilling mueller, that was kind of like the cherry on topecause we know that -- >> solidified. >> he's been out there on fox news blasting the mueller probe, raising questionsthe intelligence community and their role in vetting that possible link between russia and the trump campaign. he was in lock step with the president every step of the way when it came to the russia probe. that's clearly something that the president liked both on fox news and during the mueller hearing so that's why we keep saying that this was an audition. but that very, very political stance that he took for so long was something that rubbed a lot of people in the intelligence community the wrong way. >> i appreciate both of you, if you can make it really quickly, pamela, go ahead. >> i was going to say now you have a situation where we don't know who is going to be the nominee to replace dan coats and they haven't announced the acting position and there are now two important positions open. >> let's move on. we have other breaking news involving rapper a$ap rocky. he

and if you watched robert mueller's testimony, i had the opportunity to question robert mueller on this exact incident involving corey lewandowski. he was instructed by donald trump to tell jeff sessions to stop the investigation into donald trump and to focus it only on future elections. and robert mueller essentially confirmed all three elements of obstruction of justice were met during that incident. >> does the white house have any basis to invoke executive privilege over corey lewandowski, who never worked in the white house? >> they're just making stuff up. they would have no basis to do that. and the irony, really, is that bill barr has this view of imperial presidency, but because he's making really stupid legal arguments, he keeps losing in court, he's going to end up shrinking the powers of the president, because his courts are all going to rule against him. >> congressman ted lieu, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >>> just ahead, we'll have more on president trump versus the squad, as he's dragging israel into his attacks on these two muslim congresswomen, h

but what we needed to do is have robert mueller there to reinterpret the mueller report from what bill barr lied about and said it was and make sure that we got those facts on television. and i think when we did that, i knew i had been talking to my colleagues, and, you know, i think he did exactly what he needed to do. and i think, chris, you're going to see even more people coming forward. as you know from the court filing, from the court petition we did on friday, we are in the midst of an impeachment inquiry. part of that inquiry, part of that process is being able to consider real articles of impeachment that we might even have to draft ourselves if we're going to to recommend it to the full house for a vote. and so there is some confusion. people think that nancy pelosi isn't on board with this, but in fact nancy pelosi is green lighted this strategy. we're all in the same place. >> okay. that's interesting. i just want to zoom in on that for a second. >> yes. >> there is a few different ways to do this, right? the committee could take -- the house could take a vote, opening an i

mueller was appointed. the fbi's desperate to meet with christopher steele in the united kingdom, and you have to wonder if mr. mueller, and ihe suspect he did, took up the baton and began again to continue his working relationship with fusion gps. >> sean: stay right there. tom fitton of judicial watch, who they got this information, these 302s being released. a lot of information here to break down. we are also tracking another developing story out of the washington swamp because we have now known leaker and liarer himself, andrew mccabe, he has followed peter strzok's lead. apparently this is their strategy.en they now, too, are suing the federal government for wrongful termination. good luck with that. comey's right-hand man, andrew mccabe, fired for repeatedly lying to the fbi. the inspector general reported that mccabe lacked candor. by the way, we just heard that by the way, there will be more into come on then. mccabe was caught red-handed leaking government information. according according to repor

that finally someone has glommed on to what robert mueller was really trying to say. off, the united states was not meddled in, it was attacked. physically attacked. u.s. citizens were affected. materials were stolen. the american electoral process was corrupted and it was designed to break the fundamentals of the american electorate process. this freshman congresswoman gets it. donald trump can be impeached on just about anything. if bill clinton can be impeached for what they say is perjury and lying related to a consensual sexual relationship, then conspireing not up to the level that robert mueller chose, but conspireing all the same, benefitting, coordinating and working with a foreign power and its laundromat wikileaks to cheat an election, that's impeachable. >> yeah, and i think a lot of the discussion about impeachment got distracted into the notion of a provable federal crime has to be committed, which has never been true about the impeachment process. and this congresswoman is very much obviously aware of that, even though the mueller investigation did not

he told robert mueller one of those ten instances of potential obstruction of justice. just by relitigating that, oh, there was nothing wrong with this, he wasn't asking me to do anything illegal. you know, just by confirming those details in the mueller report, he's doing exactly what democrats want him to do. i don't think trump wants him up here at all. we'll see if he does. >> that's a great question. the judiciary committee. they can deal with it all they want, the democratic majority. it's the republicans in the senate that determine the final outcome. that's a bill that happenings. you've heard the president talk about background checks in an odd way. he'll talk about meaningful background checks. he was asked about universal background checks but it's a question he doesn't really want to answer because he's clearly not on the same page with democrats on this. i think we know where republicans stand on this even as you hear the president say, oh, mitch mcconnell seems to be for background checks. they're not for background checks. if anything, there's this red fl

nam-->>s imt mueller's name. 43% fewer viewer tuned in last night than the opening debate in june.'s losing ways, go on. joining us now night victoria tensing. joe digenova. founding partner of the digenova & toensing law firm. and i want to a, is the president right? has the witch-hunt at long last ended. >> no way. not at all. you know what the democrats are doing? nadler is straddling legal stand so much, i surprised he has any cajones left, we're said we'll impeach not up people, but he had to do that to go to court, he is trying to get grand jury information from bill barr, you can't just say to court, i'll have the attorney general break the law. only issue here could argue is, we need it for impeachment. but he does not top sa want to . lou: joe, is it conceivable that judge would order the breaking of a law. >> not in these circumstances, only case in history that relevant is u.s. versus nixon when supreme court ordered president to turnover tapes, not -- not orders to give testimony. in this situation,. >> no criminal trial under way. so there no basis for turning over gra

there are some clear between your work and bad of bob mueller that recently concluded. but also some stark differences in terms of mandate and reporting responsibilities you wrote a piece in the atlantic lastnt month so what are the key differences? >> one is the method of appointment. after the 21 year experiment with the independent counsel arena, congress sought not to reauthorize and i applauded that. and then to object is also the constitutional invasion of the powers of the president that it's okay to fire archibald cox know it wasn't okay or obstruction of justice but look at what happened the acting attorney general promptly within 11 days nominated leon jaworski he carried on the investigation and the rest is history. so a little more study of history as a great teacher that ulysses s grant fired a special counsel of his time but the investigation went on and harry truman fired the attorney general who fired the special prosecutor in the early fiftiesti but the investigation wentti on the investigation will go on so the unintended consequences to restore the au

mueller team for a certain portion of the mueller report that was broader than what we had. that it was directed by the russian government. the judge said hey, that goes further than what is in the indictment. you are prejudicing these indictments. if you guys make any statements in the future, you better not repeat that, what you did in the mueller report. he happened to go up the next day, the day that he announce the ending of his investigation, and he was very careful to say about the operation is not connected to the russian government, so people are putting those two things together and saying he must have perjured himself and his testimony because he was asked whether the calling of the press conference has anything to do with the church's criticism, and he said no. but that is really all that they have right now. suspicious circumstances. >> sandra: let's take into that. tom mcclintock with robert mueller during his testimony last month. >> why did you suggest russia was responsible, when in court, you have been unable to produce any evidence to support it? >> i'm no

not one word about mueller. the special counsel. at all of these debates.aybe that's because the new democratic poll, and of course the media's in the democratic camp, an extension of the press office, it sews support for impeaching president trump taking. it proves the russia hoax, mueller, that is dead, gone, buried. we told you that a long time ago. but let's not lose sight of a very important fact that was confirmed in last night's debate. there are no moderates running in the democratic party. there just aren't. it's radical and even more radical. green new deal, medicare for all, maybe no health care choices. but free health care for illegal immigrants. candidates on stage have big plans for all of your hard-earned money. this is a new radical extreme socialist democratic party. without oil and gas, the lifeblood of our economy, and a matter of weeks, the american dream will collapse. as a matter of fact, last night proved that even president obama, as bad as he was as president, is too moderate for this new scary crop of candidates. let's be clear. t

. >> so bob mueller came out within his report he said there is nothing. there is nothing there. the real question is what in the world is going on with our government? those that are attempting to defeat donald trump to his presidency there's a much bigger issue so let's see if they will investigate. there are a couple of others nobody is looking at this but i think it will change because the attorney general is investigating it so now we will see what happens when the media has to cover that. >>host: it's interesting because now they are reporting about the average voter and how they feel about the mueller report. they don't know or they don't care. and literally 0 percent so why is there a disconnect. >> because the media are not covering it is very subjective. and half of that dealt with the base for what is news and news is what the editor says it is in on the second half what is news? this is what the producer says it is. so cnn and company wanted it to be news that this was collusion and bob waller what - - bob mueller would give the report is like climate change that is a

mueller.ure mueller knows what is going on, if you want to know the truth. >> trump mocked the former special counsel. >> we have a few guys -- these are warriors. a couple of them you saw the other day. they were questioning bob mueller. that was a beauty. he was sharp, wasn't he. sharp as a tack. >> so the justice department has declined to prosecute james comey over memos that document encounters with president trump amid ongoing internal views beyond the probe of assists in 2016. according to the "washington post," justice department who was conducting one of the reviews is unlikely to produce a final report for at least a month. one aspect of his work is largely complete, comey's handling with those memos. a person familiar with the matter said the decision not to charge comey was, quote, not a close call. president trump was asked about the decision yesterday. >> what do you think about the decision to not prosecute comey? >> i haven't actually heard that. i know there is a lot going on.

one is that everybody underestimated the effect of mueller.ave been 25 members with aguilar today who have joined the impeachment roster, if you will. and i think it puts enormous pressure on pelosi to act and i think the numbers will only increase. if she wants to still remain ahead of her caucus, i think she's going to have to change her position about going forward with whether you call it an impeachment inquiry or the impeachment itself. >> as a mentioned to viewers who know you, as a prosecutor and a legal mind. you've used that mind in congress where everyone has a district and where there are those calculations. we'll put up the evolution on screen that started with about 30% of the caucus which was folks who said okay, when he this he held that vote, therefore. then you look at july when al green came out, 40%. now we're up around 49 or as of moments ago 49 edging towards 50%. how does that change, in your view, the way an impeachment probe would run if they get there? >> i think what they should do is pass the resolution now the. ther

so i think we are all better off for the bob mueller investigation. and i think without james comey' conduct, we may never have had it. >> comey has obviously towered over our politics for several years now. obviously in the trump administration for all the reasons we're discussing, if you think back previous to the trump administration in the 2016 campaign, there was that press conference he held that summer saying, hey, there won't be charges against hillary clinton. but then essentially indicting or in the court of public opinion, the letter he sent to congress before the election. there are clinton folks who still believe she is not the president because of that letter he sent about ten days before the election. i know it seems, there is some irony today in this doj, inspector general report declining to prosecute him. but then excoriating him for terrible judgment. terrible decisions. that's what did he when it came to 2016. >> comey has infuriated both sides. he's done something pretty extraordinary. the democrats despise him and the republicans

trump: i'm not sure robert mueller knows what is going on. all i know is he believes no collusion with us, no collusion. ultimately, no obstruction. as far as robert mueller's performance, you would have to say it is maybe not so good. not so good. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: our country is doing very well. we are setting records in every way. including employment, unemployment. we have now more people working in the united states than ever before. the stock market, it will take a hit, but it will be phenomenal because ultimately it will be better because of what i am doing. someone should have done this with china a long time ago. they decided not to do it. they made a big mistake. i will say this. there has never been a time in the history of our country like we have right now. the highest number of people employed. the best employment numbers for african-americans, hispanic, women. for everybody. i mean, the best numbers we've ever had. our military is being rebuilt and it is almost fully rebuilt. it is going to be at a level in

democrats want to ask them about the section of the mueller report that raises questions about whether president trump--n obstructed justice. and lewandowski will explain why there is no obstruction or collusion. >>> and also tonight, fresh fallout from the israel decision at president trump's urging to deny permission for two democratic congresswomen to visit the country. and israeli official lifted the ban for one of the lawmakers rashida tlaib who wanted to visit her grandmother in the west bank. but the congresswoman turned down the offer because it came with conditions she refuses to accept. >>> also tonight, we're hearing the president is frustrated and by some reports rattled over signs the u.s. economy may be headed for a recession. at a rally last night he raised the specter of a market crash wiping out people's retirement savings if he loses the election telling the crowd, and i'm quoting him now, love me or hate me, you've got to vote for me. i'll get reaction from democratic representative raja krishnonoorthi of the intelligence and over sight committee and our corresponden

department of justice released the redacted version of special counsel robert mueller support. it concluded there was no conspiracy between the trump campaign in moscow. the democrats demanded the unproductive report and for mahler to testify before congress. on july 24th 2019 now former special counsel robert mueller testified before 2 congressional committees. muller concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge any trunk campaign member with conspiracy but he cannot exonerate president trump on obstruction of justice and would have a total exoneration you actually totally exonerate the president. there was no defense for this ridiculous hoax just what chuck has been going on for. a long time. the bitter battle for washington still continues. hello there mostly fine and dry across much of the middle east we have of course been things among seen or showers across into pakistan also in the last 24 as that there's a few more on the cause what we've also been seeing is some pretty strong winds particularly working the way southwards across much of iraq but not cooling thing

mueller there. and we have had the opportunity to read mueller's report and conclusion.the conclusion that this needs an impeachment inquiry. i mean it's not something i relish. it's very railroad kief. but if we do nothing then we encourage this kind of behavior not only now but for all future presidents as well. mueller also said that he could not impeach the president. >> indict the president. >> indict the president. i'm sorry. he could not indict the president because the sitting president could not be indicted. he said it would be possible after he leaves office. so it falls to us, to the house. we're dually elected. i was sworn to uphold the constitution and i don't take it lightly. i agonize over it it which is why i didn't do it months ago. >> the clinton impeachment process you were there in the house for that. is that what part of what slowed you down or made you as careful as you've been in reaching the decision. >> i think it played a role. i wouldn't say it played a major role. but the last time it really just brought the country to a really difficult posit

and after all, bob mueller's investigation led to the prosecution of numerous individuals. it led to the conviction of numerous individuals. it led to the exposure of russian intelligence efforts to interfere and obstruct our election and it led to a volume ii of the report that explained in grave detail the way the president tried to undermine justice. and so i think we are all better off for the bob mueller investigation, and i think without jim comey's conduct we may never have had it. >> elizabeth, you know, comey has obviously touwered over our politics for several years now. obviously in the trump administration for several reasons we're discussing. if you think back previous to the trump administration in the 2016 campaign, there was that press conference he held that summer. >> right. >> saying, hey, there's not going to be charged against hillary clinton, but then essentially indicting her in the court of public opinion. the letter he sent to congress just before -- there are clinton folks who still believe she is not the president because of the letter he sent abo

mueller, that if she was dead going in.ere we told you about that a long time ago but let's not lose sight of a very important fact that was confirmed in last nights debate. there are no moderates running in the democratic party. there just aren't. it's radical and even more radical purity green new deal, medicare for all, may be, no health care choices. but free health care for illegal immigrants. candidates on stage have big plans for all of your hard-earned money. this is a new radical extreme socialist democratic party. without oil and gas to light a lot of our economy, in a matter of weeks, the american dream will collapse. as a matter of fact, proved that even president obama, as bad as he was as president, is to moderate for this new scary crop of candidates. let's be clear. the left-wing media mob doesn't care when democrats push their baseless conspiracy theories or promote their wild socialist policies or pal around with bigots and they don't seem to care about anti-semites. but criticizing obama? if that used to

that's before mueller even started. and then you look also at a guy like peter strzok and his other involvement in distress here, i would say from a legal standpoint, even a great lawyer like alan dershowitz, harvard professor that he is and man i admire, i would think you would have a hard time justifying his actions as an official in the fbi and don't forget, he worked for robert mueller and robert mueller fired him and then robert mueller cleaned his phone and cleaned lisa page's phone. >> well, robert mueller didn't fire him. he put him in a different position. >> sean: he claims he fired hannah and mccabe claims he fired them so one of them is full of something. >> i think the point is, i think we have to have one rule of law apply to everybody with the rule of law i would apply to everybody would be to stop accusing people of crimes we should have had an independent commission where everything came out. i love what judicial watch is doing. bring everything out. bring everything into the light of the public. sunlig