Mueller's Swan Song

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

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4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Former Justice Department official Matt Miller and CNN Contributor Bianna Golodryga join co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman for a round table discussion breaking down the six plus hours of long awaited Mueller testimony. They each give their insights into what went right and what went wrong for both the Republicans and the Democrats as well as how this will impact the future as we barrel towards the 2020 election.

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0:00.0	Director Mueller, the President has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was
0:07.0	no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him.
0:11.4	But that is not what your report said, is it?
0:14.4	Correct, that is not what the report said.
0:17.5	And now reading from page 2 of volume 2 of your report that's on the screen, you wrote
0:22.6	to quote, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President
0:28.8	clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.
0:33.8	Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach
0:38.5	that judgment, close quote.
0:40.3	Now, does that say there was no obstruction?
0:43.1	No.
0:44.1	In fact, you are actually unable to conclude the President did not commit obstruction
0:49.6	of justice, is that correct?
0:51.2	You know, we at the outset determined that when it came to the President's culpability,
1:02.2	we needed to go forward only after taking to account the OLC opinion that indicated that
1:10.4	a president sitting President cannot be indicted.
1:15.3	So, the report did not conclude that he did not commit obstruction of justice.
1:20.5	Is that correct?
1:22.3	That is correct.
1:23.7	And what about total exoneration?
1:25.5	Did you actually totally exonerate the President?
1:28.0	No.
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