this was not the same robert mueller. he had put around him partisan people that attended the day, many of us knew and the collusion was not there are really democrats couldn't take a right for me that is the concerning part. even to this day, one things that we talk about, this is the fisa court, secret court and what is supposed to be. they were using and manipulating the data for political narrative, that is not what we're about. >> during the mueller investigation, there was information that came out. i'm not gonna suggest it was leaks from within the investigation. anytime you serve a subpoena someone's going to talk about the nature of the subpoena. there is a lot of sources of information that could've given the information to the news organization will. it seemed to me there was a few members of congress, adam schiff, swalwell from california and others. they made outrageous statements. i think congressman swalwell said something about, i know there's indictments of the president on the way. a something along thos

what robert mueller said if i could say laws had been broken i would. olume 2 of the mueller probe report? >> so, you know, robert mueller acted out of principle whether you agreed with it or not and his view because the department of justice had a policy that he was bound to follow that you could not indict a sitting president. he thought it was unfair to say that person committed a crime because they would not have their day in court to vindicate themselves. there might be an impeachment and there might later be a prosecution for obstruction, but that was as the report lays out robert mueller's principled thinking. as i said, whether you agree with it or not. it was, of course, within the discretion of the attorney general to say, you know what, bob? i disagree with you. you need to come to a conclusion. i actually think that's wrong. this memo makes it clear that the reason that bill barr did not ask robert mueller to simply come to a conclusion because as it said here, the report could be read to find that indeed, he did commit obstruction. as you sa

and comey and so many of these other guys, robert mueller, you know, register republicans or so-calledservatives at least at some point in their careers in ten years. i think we all have to aware, if you still have respect for the doj and the fbi at this point, particularly fbi, you are not paying attention. certainly has a long time lawyer, the scales have fallen from my eyes and the abuses that i've seen in my career, it is very hard for me to take anything with these people are taking seriously and citizens who are about to be unleashed at the opposite end of 87,000 agents and in prosecutions from irs, we should all be aware that this is abuse, it is systematic, and it is coming for the average american citizen. if they can do this to the former president, they will do it to supporters of the president, which is half of the united states. >> laura: right, and people who don't have money to pay for lawyers and go bankrupt, and so they will plead to anything just to get the government off their back. that is what they do to the average person. panel, fantastic conversation, but stay w

if robert mueller ever got toobo point and i had been in hearings two or three years earlier feet thathe member was being too cute i guess is maybe a way to put it, he would answer the question think i'm not saying anymore and he would just stare eat the member like fine. but when he walked in o the room nadler then walked through his opening questions wished by the way were all scripted. i could invest every democrat question i couldn't read them off his desk. when i started my questioning and i asked him about the simple issue of collusion in his report, and he did not have conceptug or control over his understanding it told me it was going to be in tire different robert mueller and even today the democrats will somewhat acknowledge that was true but. >> came out of the blue at that point. they'd built this narrative for months and months. and now all the said they have a report but does not draw the conclusions they want come attorney general barr had written a summary of it beforehand. they were attacking the summary they were parts of it redacted for national security reasons. the

and in that statement, he said i've reviewed this report from robert mueller and i as attorney general, i have carefully reviewed all the evidence that mueller and his team have presented here, all of the evidence they havees presented to whether or not trump committed crimes, barr said specifically that he was disregarding the justice department policy that said a sitting president can't be charged with a crime. he said i'm notar going to get into that. he saidg regardless of that policy, ignore that pour, regardless of that rule, i william barr have reviewed all of the evidence, and i have determined that no way should trump face any charges. not just because he's president. not just because of this rule that says no charges can be brought against a president. but regardless of that, trump shouldn't face any charges because my william barr review of the evidence in this report indicates thatre trump committe no crimes. barr tells the congress, tells the public, i can tell, i checked it out, i looked at the evidence, i say as attorney general and theev justice department backs me up o

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after robert mueller, special counsel, appointed mr. a prosecutor on his team to investigate the trump campaign's ties to russia around the 2016 election, van grack spent nearly three years investigating and prosecuting trump allies, michael flynn and paul manafort. interestingly, mr. van grack ultimately resigned from the flynn case, after a william barr appointee took over the u. s. attorney's office in d. c., and moved to withdraw the government's case against flynn. even though, flynn by then had already pled guilty twice. he resigned from the flynn investigation but the state of the justice department. it continued to leave the justice department fairer unit, the office that prosecute on which is third foreign agents. and that role, he became the first official to oversee all foreign influence operations across the u.s. justice department. brandon van grack has since left the justice department, but boy, there is nobody who i would rather talk to tonight about what's going on in our country with these remarkable and unprecedented c

himself counted as a member of the robert mueller steam so nobody on mueller steam at simulator. while mueller did but he doesn't count and its eye come on at some point were allowed to say i won't swear. that's and you wouldn't buy that for their kid if that was your kid. did anyone in ms. johnson class have a problem with your behavior? no. ms. johnson wrote a letter. but he wasn't part of her class. get out of here. i've been around long enough. >> one of the things i wanted to ask and i'll get into a few more questions before you rap wrap up but one the things i wanted to ask ask you in one of the things you hone in on in the book is what bill barr decides what's important for the public in what narrative whether -- whether law and order whatever does what he decides is important for the justice department for him and what he decides is an important and what is interesting is you ersingled out michigan where the people were arrested and potentially plantedd kidnapping potentially kill governor gretchen whitmer. he didn't quite capitalize on that legislation wise and my questi

the top of each one robert mueller gives us of in page summary of here f are my findingsbe. are already classified information and they were ready to go. this is what you forget about, robert mueller wrote the letter to bill barr i think i'm quoting it right, you have mischaracterized the substance in nature and conclusions of my report and g thenou says i ge in summary. why didn't you just put those out? you could have done thatt on day number one. so mueller sends a letter to basically say you have misstated my report. then a couple weeks later bill barr testifies in congress. we did not know about that letter yet but a senator asks has anyone on the mother team expressed any displeasure cracks he looked right at the camera and said nope. then the letter came out and said you lied to us and we asked and you got this from mueller. that he saidd it is a word salad a bunch of gobbledygook. but i don't think mueller himself was a member of mueller's team. so come on. so that is bull. and if that was your kids excuse, the only one and miss johnson's class that has a problem wit

robert mueller, however did not draw a conclusion of obstruction during his investigation into trump ia collusion. >> todd: mueller and his team should be under investigation perhaps some of these fbi agents are involved in this latest raid on mar-a-lago. >> trumps legal team suggesting that it could be repeating itself, carley and todd. >> carley: brooke singman live for us, let's bring in chris. good morning to you. how do you expect today to unfold when it comes to the affidavit? >> yeah, to answer that question, you have to understand what is likely in the affidavit. there has to be evidence or facts that show a crime has occurred and there is evidence to that crime at a specific location. what you need to do that is describe the evidence itself, which in this case would be sensitive documents. i would not say classified because they talk about national defense related information. so it doesn't necessarily have to be classified but it doesn't have to be extremely sensitive or related to national defense. there is another part of the statute that involves destruction of the docume

strange time to put out a press release, sean, midnight on the busiest media day of the year, robert mueller'st was unredacted proving he found "no factual basis" and charged me with anything regarding russian collusion, wikileaks collaboration, or involvement in the fishing and publication of a donald trump's -- right in me, of john podesta's emails. the whole purpose of the raid was intimidation. >> sean: let's talk about in relation of what happened in mar-a-lago this weekend. if you know paul manafort, peter navarro, and why this seems -- why the tactics are now being used more and more and why does it only seemed to happen to conservatives? nothing happened to hillary clinton, nothing happened to the people that lied to before fisa courts. nothing happened in the upper echelon in the fbi when they spread lies about russia collusion as he pointed out rightly so that never occurred. they had hunter biden's laptop and we know there's crimes and evidence of crimes on the laptop and nothing has happened to him. why the double standard? i will give you the last word. >> it's very important to r

the memo also said that donald trump ordered the firing of special counsel robert mueller was not attempted obstruction of justice or obstruction of justice because, quote, there is considerable evidence to suggest that the president took these official actions, not for an illegal purpose, but rather because he believed the investigation was politically motivated and undermined his administration's efforts to govern. the memo also said, we likewise do not believe that the president's public statements exhorting witnesses, like flynn, manafort, stone or cohen, not to flip should be viewed as obstruction of justice. that means that the two authors of this bill are the only federal prosecutors in history who do not know what flip means. it is, of course, the term traditionally used by gangsters and donald trump to mean a witness engaged in criminal conduct who flips and decides to tell the truth in court about that criminal conduct. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division in the eastern district of new york. he is professor of pr

andrew weizmann, former fbi counsel, and former senior member of special counsel robert mueller's investigativeteam, always full of wisdom, and very educated guesses. thank you for your time tonight, andrew. >> nice to be here. >> way down the ballot, in florida's primary elections this week, we're races for school board. these elections, which are typically nonpartisan, home affairs, have turned into heated contest cycles, courtesy of republican governor, ron desantis. he endorsed 30 candidate for school board races, and stumped for some of them. his hand paid candidates pledged to align with desantis on the way that race, gender, and sexual orientation, are taught in public schools. 19 of desantis's handpicked, school board candidates, pick won their races. six more, with a chance to win runoffs in november. only five out of the 30 candidates is, at minimum, a 63% success rate. they're meddling with down ballot races, and getting results, but, he is not the only one. some incredible reporting on who else wants to try their hand and indoctrination, coming up next. up next. [school bells] when

how could robert mueller run a 22 month long investigation? based on the steel dossier and its dissemination by fusion gps and testify under oath. to the house intelligence committee. when asked that he had no idea what the dossier was. he had no idea. what gps was in other words he had no idea why his committee existed his commissioned existed in the first place. and that that was 22 months post-facto. so it's very dangerous to invest and give up your constitutional rights to people who are not elected and they're growing greater and larger as the individual citizen fields. that they are losing their independence and they need someone to instruct them someone to house them someone to give them education someone to give them legal advice for someone to protect them the more that they want protection the more that this deep state says we're here to help you. and pretty soon the state is the master and the citizen or what was the citizen as the slave there's another postmodern and it's postmodern effort to destroy citizenship and the constitutio

andrew weizmann, former prosecutor and senior member of robert mueller's team is our guest.ht, we begin with this story. the man waiting in the wings. while donald trump is fending a torrent of investigations, there is one person who has been ready to take the mic, should the former president go bankrupt, be caught in jail, or fall into a classified box. that man is florida republican governor ron desantis. the first term governor has catapulted to celebrity status among republicans thanks to his abrasive style and his relentless desire to weigh into the culture wars on behalf of the far-right. with his sights clearly set on 2024 run, governor desantis is now taking his show on the road. he is headlining rallies for key gop candidates all across the usa. just last week, he visited arizona to stop on behalf of the far-right election deniers running for governor and senate in that state. there, he was praised as the beast from the east, and the best governor we have in this country. gubernatorial candidate kari lake was downright giddy when saying that she had been described a

he previously served as the fbi general counsel, and was former senior member of councillor robert mueller'stigation team. -- >> good evening, it's always good to follow katie benner. >> sheila lays it out very well. and allows me to ask you about your sort of top line reactions to everything we learned in the last 24, hours in the last 13 minutes. and what you think prompted this, the doj to execute and issue this search warrant. >> my intuition is that merrick garland was given information that there was national security information, of such importance and so sensitive, and that he could not troughs that donald trump will simply turn it back over to the government. they had to have information that is still extent in mar-a-lago. and considering the national security concerns, that's the kind of thing that i could see merrick garland and lisa monaco, and christopher wray, and frankly the entire intelligence community thinking is so important to the national security of the united states that it warrants this kind of step. that is my gut, but that is the kind of thing that would warrant thi

andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, and a former senior counsel robert mueller's investigation team. thank you for the lawyer. jokes appear next tonight, president biden summons -- and calling at the republican party not mincing words. >> he can't be pro law enforcement and pro insurrection. you can't be party of law and order and call the people who attack the police on january six patriots. you can't do it! >> we will talk live with senior biden adviser and former atlanta and mayor keisha leigh bottoms about the presidents new aggressive push to hold republicans accountable. and the doj is trying to have it both ways and to gain the internet on key issues. my money is on the internet. stay with us. net. stay with us so we need something super distinctive... dad's work, meet daughter's playtime. thankfully, meta portal auto pans and zooms to keep you in frame. and the meeting on track. meta portal. the smart video calling device that makes work from home work for you. one prilosec otc in the morning blocks excess acid production for a full 24 hours. unlike pepcid, which stops

andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former senior mib of special counsel robert mueller'snvestigative team, always full of wisdom and educated guesses. thanks for your time tonight, andrew. >> nice to be here. >>> way down in the ballot, in florida's primary elections this week were races for school board, thee, these elections are normally bipartisan and ho-hum affairs and now ron desantis endorsed 30 for school board and hand picked candidates aligned with desantis on race, gender and sexual owner tation taught in public schools. 19 won their races and six more have a chance to win runoffs in november. only five out of the 30 candidates lost outright. that is at minimum a 63% success rate. governor desantis's experience in meddling with down ballot races is getting results but he's not the only one. incredible new reporting about who else wants to try their handle at in particular nation, coming up next. r handle at in particular nation, coming up next i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and

of don mcgahn being asked by the president to deny that he ever asked or ordered the firing of robert mueller, the special counsel. >> which was a lie. >> which was not true. you go through this analysis in this memo, which basically kind of comes up with different excuses for why trump didn't really mean what he said. in the end, what you see in this memo is that bill barr and his aides have decided that because there was no evidence enough to bring charges related to collusion between the trump campaign and the russians, there could be no obstruction of justice. that's the bottom line. that is basically what they based the entire memo on. and then they go through a number of pages describing various reasons as to why this could not be a decision they could stand behind. >> all right, thank you so much. >> coming up next, candidates trying to capitalize today on their big primary wins in key states, including a 25-year-old trying to become the first gen zer in congress. i'm going to talk to him next. thinkorswim® by td ameritrade is more than a trading platform. it's an entire trading experi

robert mueller's finalalro repot was only directed proving that he had found, quote, no pro facl basis to charge meme with anything regarding russian collusion, wikileaks collaboration or involvement in the fishingol or publication of donald trump's pardon me, of john podesta's emails. so the whole purpose of this raid was intimidation. let's talk about it in relation to what happened to at mar a lago this weekend. and you know, paul manafort, peter navarro and why this seems why these tactics are now being used more and more andem why does it only seem to happenn to conservate t? in nothing happen to hillary clinton. nothing happened to the people that p lied before fisa courts. nothing happened. the upper echelonhe of the fbi when they spread lies about russia collusion, as you pointnt out, rightly so. that never occurred. te they've had to buy this laptop. we know there are crimes, send evidence of crimes on that laptop. nothing has happened to him. whypene a double standard? i'll give you the last word. well, first of all, it's very important to recognize that i was arrested at six

had a friend who knew julian assange, and, you know, there's been more public information from robert mueller'sng with russian intelligence, that it was probably more like, you know, what one would predict from roger stone's entire career which was he was sort of an opportunist, and he saw an opportunity to sort of promote trump and promote himself at the same time and became part of the process of, you know, building an audience for him, building suspense about these dumps of e-mails hacked by the russians and, you know, essentially designed to undermine clinton's campaign. ♪♪♪ michael: according to the indictment of stone, in july 2016, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone to find out what else wikileaks had on the clinton campaign. stone then asked a contact to go to the ecuadorian embassy to get the "pending wikileaks e-mails. they deal with the clinton foundation, allegedly." roger stone: i actually have communicated with assange. i believe the next tranche of his documents pertain to the clinton foundation, but there's no telling what the october surprise may be.

i mean, robert mueller, in my view, conducted a correct investigation, provided the correct results touction of justice in multiple ways. but the process is such that, or i should say that the political climate in america is such that it didn't matter, and so this willjust be more of the same, and as somebody famous from your side of the pond once said, much ado about nothing. that is very much the phrase you have picked up on and you are going to stick with, for someone who has made a career out of persuading prosecutors to drop cases, it is clear what your strapline is going to be, vinoo. thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate that. my joining us. i appreciate that. my pleasure. the singer and actress olivia newton—john, who became a global icon for her portrayal of sandy in the 1978 movie, grease, has died of cancer, at the age of 73. her stellar career included four grammy awards, and sales 0ur correspondent david sillito looks back at her life and remarkable career. # summer loving, had me a blast. # summer loving, happened so fast. # i met a girl crazy for me. # met a b

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passed them to the media, said he had amnesia 245 times, he was an improvement on robert mueller, hee steel dossier was. that is one example. we could do the same thing with cia, and doj and the pentagon, it is scary, they are judge, jury and executioner. mark: right. we'll be right back. teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. [laughter] hey, i was thinking about going back to school to get my master's... i just saw something that said you could do it in a year for like $11k. hmm! order 11! yes, see you at 11. ♪ 1111 masters blvd. please. that'll be 11 even, buddy. really? the clues are all around us... some things are too obvious to be a coincidence. ♪ seen this ad? some things are too obvious to be a coincidence. it's not paid for by california tribes. it's paid for by the out of state gambling corporations that wrote prop 27. it doesn't tell you 90% of t

robert mueller did not draw a conclusion in the finals report out of his investigation in the trump-russia investigation. >> mueller and his team should be involved with this latest raid on mar-a-lago. >> carley: thank you so much. former trump impeachment lawyer david shoen had to to say. >> i am not sure it is just him, number two in charge is lisa monaco, that is going years back. andrew weisman had an agenda. get trump, i track this, frankly, said to jerry nadler saying we can't trust the american voters. the leaks are cheating the american public, bad for donald trump and the american people. >> todd: fbi whistleblowers saying the agency warned against investigating hunter biden's laptop before the november elections. leadership told employees, you will not look at that hunter biden laptop and the fbi is not going to change the outcome of the election again. johnson alleges the fbi began to examine the laptop after biden won the 2020 election. christopher chris swecker joined us to discuss the doj's hypocrisy. >> there are multiple whistleblowers on this. here is the laptop, a two-yea

hear him lecture of the country -- after that russia collusion fraud -- leading request, and robert mueller -- there's plenty of reasons for them to take this attitude towards the bureau. >> the list is long. they have -- >> they have a lot of these questions based mike marks for the american people, and as you say, they have leaked things to the press that they took, only to find out that they weren't true. of course, everybody is cautious. >> of course we won't believe what the fbi tells us. it's the fault of what we have witnessed over the last seven years. also being attacked. their credibility was being called into question. he basically said nothing about those protests. coming after the doj, he gets back up. >> a little bit goes a long way. if he defended those members of the supreme court -- it could influence the outcome in decisions. so much credibility with the american people when you show them that you are willing to treat things equally. if you treat things equally, you will get so much respect from the american people. >> if you believe justice is blind, if anyone is attacked

passed them to the media, said he had amnesia 245 times, he was an improvement on robert mueller, hethe steel dossier was. that is one example. we could do the same thing with cia, and doj and the pentagon, it is scary, they are judge, jury and executioner. mark: right. we'll be right back. so what's going on? i'm a talking dog. the other issue. oh... i'm scratching like crazy. you've got some allergic itch with skin inflammation. apoquel can work on that itch in as little as 4 hours, whether it's a new or chronic problem. and apoquel's treated over 11 million dogs. nice. and...the talking dog thing? is it bothering you? no... itching like a dog is bothering me. until dogs can speak for themselves, you have to. when allergic itch is a problem, ask for apoquel. apoquel is for the control of itch associated with allergic dermatitis and the control of atopic dermatitis in dogs. do not use apoquel in dogs less than 12 months old or those with serious infections. apoquel may increase the chances of developing serious infections and may cause existing parasitic skin infestations or pre-exi

nonsense, i mean the things that we are demonstrating by the fbi's investigation, by special counsel robert mueller were unequivocally illegal acts, which led to many number of prosecutions. so for him to suggest that there's any sort of political motivation behind this is absolutely nonsense. i laughed at evans pointing out one of the first sentences is, justice should not be political. the very next sentence is i'm the leading candidate for the republican cart party of the president. on the one hand it should not be political, but let me immediately make it political, because i'm going to throw around how great i am and i'm going to be the next candidate. it is all at the end of the day, this is nonsense. it does -- it disappoints me to see my name in there. unfortunately, it does not surprise me. and you know, again, at the end of the day the reason it is there is because he perceives some value to rally his base. it has no relevance to what the court is ultimately going to find, and again, i suspect this is going to be quickly dismissed and have no real impact on what doj is doing down at mar-a

and he took over from robert mueller whose entire special counsel case was based on two premises.ormation that was false in the steele dossier and the shenanigans of the clinton hired gps disinformation firm and when he was asked specifically, he said under oath he knew nothing about either entity. this is very ironic because all of this is destroying this country and it comes from the people who warned us democracy dies in darkness and they have descended upon us the greatest cloud of autocracy and liberality in the history of this republic. and we are going to have to do something and hope and pray that the house is under new leadership and it will be up to kevin mccarthy and republicans, as you say, to reply in kind. i don't want to live in a country where kevin mccarthy tears up the state of the union address as soon as joe biden gives it. i don't want to live necessarily in a country when kevin mccarthy says no squad member is going to be on any house committee or mitch mcconnell is going to go to the supreme court and yell about supreme court justices. but that's where we ar

i still have to get a dermatologist to remove my robert mueller tramp stamp. ( laughter ) it's going to sting! it's going to sting! ( cheers and applause ) still, there's some juicy tidbits. the latest? we now know that an inside informer told the f.b.i. what documents the former president was hiding, and where. so, there was a mole? who could it be... oh. my. god! ( laughter ) ( applause ) oh, my! oh, my lord! ( laughter ) we also have learned that the raid was deliberately timed to occur when the former president was away. so, they had to either wait till he was out of town, or for the return of the mcrib. "big mango is headed for lunch. we got ten hours. go, go, go!" now that we know someone in the inner circle has flipped, the former president is reportedly freaking out and asking his allies, "who's wearing a wire?" to which don jr. said, "wired? i'm not wired! you're wired! who wants to start a band? no, a new app!" an app about a band! ( laughter ) sources say the ex-president is worried he may have a rat, or multiple rats, in his midst. and that's just at the mar-a-lago waffle

that is a break with special counsel robert mueller who found several incidents with strong obstruction by trump. the memo says that trump didn't break the law when he fired james comey or when he asked comey to go easy on michael flynn. >>> and carolyn maloney lost her primary on tuesday and her -- now her democratic peers are scrambling to take her her house committee. but she won't be giving up her gavel until next year. maloney was forced to face off against jerry nadler due to the new new york redistricting laws and suffered the stinging defeat. >>> in columbus, ohio the teachers union and board of education say that they reached a conceptual agreement to get students back in the classroom starting on monday. thousands of teachers and other school workers went on strike over the weekend demanding better classroom conditions, school year started as scheduled on wednesday but kids had to do online classes with substitute teachers. they will stay virtual the next two days while the regular teachers get ready for their return next week. >>> u.s. president biden is facing bipartisan cri

look, i was working for robert mueller when the same thing happened. this is right out of donald trump's playbook, just to attack anyone who's threatening his power whether it's the press, or the justice department. merrick garland's seasoned and has a strong background. he's gonna do this entirely by the book. >> and we are watching. thank you all, mark put, on andrew weissmann, i appreciate you as staying up late with us. frank and barb do not go anywhere, we've got more to cover when we come back. more on the search from mar-a-lago from two people who have inside knowledge of the former president and how he's likely taking a news tonight. and later, democrats on the verge of a huge win in congress. we will write down what's in the sweeping health care, climate and tax bill. the 11th hour just getting underway on a big news monday night. wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook communit

the steele dossier, the crossfire hurricane investigation, the robert mueller report, the carter page prosecution, the lisa page efrjs mails and peter strzok emails, the whistleblower that some agents covered up the hunter biden laptop. and i could go on. given that history, i think many fair-minded americans are going to say wait a minute. this looks political. this looks personal. this doesn't look like an aberration. this is beginning to look like a pattern. and for the sake of the integrity of the f.b.i. and the department of justice, i think chris wray and merrick garland need to hold a press conference together. they need to answer all questions, as long as it takes. they need to release a copy of the search warrant, and they need to release the evidence and affidavits in support of that search warrant so they can assure the american people, if it's accurate, that this isn't personal and this isn't political. but it doesn't look good, harris. >> harris: so that's an interesting point. answer those questions, come clean for as long as it takes from the d.o.j. it isn't just the ra

decision to clear trump of obstruction of justice accusations and charges in connection with robert mueller'sarked an explosive response overnight from legal experts and former prosecutors. that memo which was signed by top barr doj officials callahan and steven engel conformed the contract beyond recognition to embolden a then-president who was abusing the powers of his office to protect his political and personal interest. the freedom of information lawsuit prompted the release of this memo reacted this way, quote. the memo supports the chilling conclusion that any president could interfere with any investigation if they believe it could damage them politically. nyu law professor ryan goodman called the memo a get out of jail free card in a statement to "the new york times" neal katyal, i guess the only hoax was the one trump doj played on all of us. >> the question that pete strzok couldn't answer for me, if you thought the mueller report was garbage and it turned out nothing could endanger trump criminally, why work so hard and spend nine pages tearing it apart? >> 100%, nicole. i think t

weizmann spent years was recently he served as a and the department of justice lead prosecutor robert mueller for working as an assistant u. s.'s special counsel investigation attorney to leading the fbi's into russia and the trump campaign investigation into amazon is also the author of where law ends and serving as general counsel inside the mueller investigation and he joins me now andrew to the fbi. apparently the only question that trump answer today most recently his serve as a was his name what are the implications of him taking the fifth since this lead prosecutor in robert is a civil case cannot then be used against him jordan the mueller's special counsel first thing i want to say is i think investigation into russia and it's really deplorable the trump campaign. for anyone in the government and certainly he is also the author of where a president to be that decrying and law and, inside the mueller denigrating the assertion of investigation, and he joins me the constitutional rights now. of everybody has a right to search the andrew, apparently the only fifth amendment if they belie

remember robert mueller at his team, they wanted paul manafort to die in jail. they tried hard.t him in solitary confinement for nine straight months. last year he was pardoned by president trump after prosecutors destroyed his life. this new book is out today. it's called "political prisoner: persecuted, prosecuted, but not silenced." all metaphor joins us now. first, congratulations on the book. i don't know if you went to a bookstore today, but it's in bookstores all across the country, you can get it on amazon.com, a first edition copy. i read the whole book cover to cover. i will tell you, i'm reading this and i'm saying this is not the america i know. this is not the country that i know. we've been talking about tax violations, pharaoh violations, process crimes. you weren't seeing me the bulgur vinyl. you weren't john gotti sr. that the fbi was looking for. you aren't a member of the drug cartel. you know, and in these cases they had all been settled, you point this out in great detail. so why the predawn raid with the guns in your face and your wife's face? >> because i

donald trump should not be charged with obstruction of justice in jekz with the investigation by robert mueller. what should we take away from this memo? >> the reason we're actually seeing it because the document wasn't about whether or not to charge donald trump. the decision was made for de facto in advance by bill barr there weren't circumstances under which donald trump would be charged. this was really kind of a pr almost, the best case scenario not to charge him. that's why the federal court finally released it. under the freedom of information act, barr had said this was a deliberative document. they were trying to wrestle with a really thorny problem as to whether to indict donald trump. not true. the federal courts are pretty upset that bill barr wasn't honest with the courts and the american people about what this document was about. legally, it's flawed on a number of fronts. it distorts the standard for obstruction of justice. it demonstrates he had a preconceived idea of how that mueller report was going to come out and that's not accountability for donald trump. the two takeaways

if it got bad for you and they made it very clear to you, this is robert mueller's pit bull andrew weissmann i'm not mistaken, that if you told them what they wanted to hear that they will go easy on you and maybe even let you go. is that true? >> they never said they let me go but the implication is they will go easy on me, yes. they had their own narrative. they did not care about the facts. >> sean: you knew what they wanted you to say, is that true? >> secretary jean-pierre: a well, i sensed what they wanted me to say by the way they were answering the questions. they wanted donald trump to be involved in various ways and have for knowledge of different things that were going on with wikileaks and trying to make connections to russia. it didn't exist. >> sean: so here they are offering you maybe your freedom back, you are in solitary confinement. how many months in solitary? >> about a year. >> sean: and all you had to do was start telling them things, i don't want to put words in your mouth, that you know not to be true and your life would've been much easier, better and you would have