muller that distinguish them under the fuzzy wasy we know it when we see it non-test set out 30 years ago by the supreme court and we think we could make that case if we wanted to. but truth be told, we think that that portion of morrison vs. olson was not just wrong, but ludicrously wrong and the much more interesting question concerns, at least us to, original constitutional meaning. or as i prefer to call it, constitutional meaning. and as a matter of constitutional meaning, a special counsel such as robert mueller would obviously not -- was obviously not an firnor officer. let's start with a term no logical point that courts have gotten spectacularly wrong for perhaps a century. let's note what the appointments clause calls officers who must by constitutional command be appointed by presidential nomination and senate confirm ails. congress may by law invest such inferior officers in courts of law and departments. what is other people? doesn't actually call them anything does it. there are officers. and there are inferior officers. but surely we need some kind of catchy name for no

portrayed robert muller as a relentless crusader he was standing up to trumpet and digging for truth but when it came to investigating foreign influence into 911 he looked a little bit soft riyadh was an obvious target for an investigation into the 911 attacks the possible complicity of saudi arabia was brought up from the beginning osama bin ladin himself a saudi as are 15 of the 19 hijackers now saudi arabia of course denies any wrongdoing but now a victim of 911 is speaking up and saying that robert muller appeared to be covering for saudi arabia in his investigation the saudi arabia was from the very beginning involved through the whole process and they didn't want to see formation go wow that's a matter of fact even the obama administration the one. formation to be revealed the wanted to preserve. the geopolitical region 1st and the. needs of the families and the family members survivors that were directly affected by the event so in that way it was. a way to digest the level of incompetence that we had in the government regarding to the 911 investigation i believe that all up t

source to be interviewed robert muller along with condi rice along with the bush administration were saying that they had no advance warning that the 911 attacks would occur and this was of course completely opposite of the truth there were many many intelligence warnings in memos that came from a number of different intelligence agencies but we have approached the f.b.i. others refused to give us a comment on the story we've also sent a request to have a murder himself we'll bring you his response was soon as we get it. the u.n. has issued a stark warning to benjamin netanyahu over his new plans for the west bank as a as any havoc sation would fall outside of all international laws the israeli prime minister has promised to seize logs ponse all these hara truthy wins re-election next week. we are on the eve of elections president trump said that after the elections he would present his deal of the century for a permanent agreement for israel and the palestinians this offers us a great challenge and a great historic once in a lifetime opportunity to apply israel sovereignty over our

source to be interviewed robert muller along with condi rice along with the bush administration were saying that they had no advance warning that the 911 attacks would occur and this was of course completely opposite of the truth there were many many intelligence warnings in memos that came from a number of different intelligence agencies. we have approached the f.b.i. all those refused to give comment on the story we've also sent a request to robot mother himself we await his response. the un's issued a stall warning to binyamin netanyahu over his new plans for the west bank the israeli pm is for reelection next week and his promise through alex large parts of the territory if he wins. in the sudan promotion we are on the eve of election president trump said that after the elections he will present his deal of the century for a permanent agreement for israel and the palestinians this offers us a great challenge and a great historic once in a lifetime opportunity to apply israel sovereignty over our settlements in judea and samaria them and also other areas of significance for our se

source to be interviewed robert muller along with condi rice along with the bush administration were saying that they had no advance warning that the 911 attacks would occur and this was of course completely opposite of the truth there were many many intelligence warnings in memos that came from a number of different intelligence agencies. we've asked the f.b.i. for comment but have not received one yet we'll bring you any information that we get. still to come in the program diplomatic turbulence between china and germany as berlin gives a high level welcome to one of the leaders of the hong kong protest movement got the details on that and a couple going. to base it on 920 s. you know there were no laws really on wall street and the abuses were issued and the market one way and people began to look at the stock market as the proxy for the economy people are getting wealthy because their stocks are going up and they do they quit their jobs they just become speculators as. so this is what happened now people are saying look the economy is the real economy is terrible we have no jobs

special counsel robert muller as a best occasion into russian election meddling done and dusted anticipations now building ahead of a new report into the origins of that inquiry specifically the justice department's inspector general is believed to be looking into whether or not the f.b.i. abused its powers in surveilling a truck campaign advisor and he's expected to publish his findings on that in september she returns he's been speaking to the man at the center of the case carter page it was just a complete meth these complete lies that were misleading the american public and just created such a you know how such problems for. the trumpet ministration i think is just terrible and the process allegations that the f.b.i. were worried about when they read this amazing dossier by the former by 6 by against you what was it just so preposterous for. an. that i had these meetings with these senior russians which people i had never met in my entire life i mean is this completely fabricated completely made up ok well we had the inquiry now we've got the horowitz inquiry just how does that differ to

former special counsel robert muller recently appeared before the u.s. congress to answer questions about his investigation of president trump and russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign president has repeatedly claimed your ford found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated. that is not what your report said is it. correct it is not what the report said. the report did not include he did not commit a structure of justice that is correct for many democrats there are strong grounds for impeaching donald trump but with republicans remaining firmly in his corner it's becoming symbolic of america's partisan divide it's starting to look like you having desperately tried and failed to make a legal case against the president you made a political case instead you put it in a paper sack lit on fire dropped it on our porch rang the doorbell and ran i don't think you will view a report that is as thorough as fair as consistent as a report that we have in front of us history is repeating itself i would say the trumpet mi

muller. to sit on the 9th of april 2018 a new york attorney becomes the latest target of bob mullen michael cohen donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen is donald trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer is the city present the secret and he has as the keys to the kingdom he knows all the secrets about donald trump. card with. the f.b.i. search cohens office at the request of a local prosecutor on charges of financial fraud. the move initiated by bomb miller as a direct challenge to the president himself. so i just heard that they broke into the office busy of one of my personal attorneys because man i said that it's really valid at all. new level of unfair. cohen to someone who might know about trump's alleged real estate dealings in russia. that was fairly common knowledge in the real estate community and the international finance community in the political community the russians were funding in various ways many major trunk real estate projects cohen my also know if the president l

an october 2017 special counsel robert muller issues his 1st indictments against people close to the president. meant for trump's campaign director and gates deputy director of the campaign are both charged for breaking a series of laws papadopoulos foreign affairs advisor to the campaign is charged for having lied to the f.b.i. . for promotion festive season and 0 d. and on his 1st targets to the. right here by the f.b.i. . for each. field. about his contacts with foreign nationals he's had a series of people in d.c. suddenly in deep deep trouble but those charged by muller become fair game for the press even if they're not directly linked to the russian. ference and in 2016 election. when the initial indictments were issued by miller people rightfully said wait a minute this is supposed to be about russia so what's going on and a lot of people have said none of this is collusion who cares why is moller charging these crimes if it's not collusion no collusion there's no collusion it seems to be the focus don't delude you know of russia no nothing no police no proof whatsoever presen

only 8 days after the firing of james combing the justice department appoints robert muller to take over the russian probe. for this mission robert mueller was called out of retirement he had been director of the f.b.i. for 12 years and in 2013 he had left the law enforcement agency with full honors and his farewell speech he proclaimed his unshakable faith in the rule of law. have always been proud to say that i work for the department of justice because of that for which it stands which is an unyielding commitment to the rule of law and to the safety and security of the citizens we serve a know. quite well. i worked with him for about 4 years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole he pointed me as his number 2 person in the f.b.i. as a deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director ball or politics or just don't play any role in his calculations so

department of justice released the redacted version of special counsel robert muller report. it concluded there was no conspiracy between the truck 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. or concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge any trunk campaign member with conspiracy but he cannot exonerate president trump on obstruction of justice and what about total exoneration you actually totally exonerate the president. there was no defense to this ridiculous hoax just what china has been going on for. a long time. the bitter battle for washington still continues. however we've got no shortage of subtle storms on the cars folia us as we go on through the next couple of days and even north of the border because say some showers into central and eastern parts of canada have had a society off the continent saying some very heavy rain labview down poles temp just getting up to around 3132 celsius set i

an october 2017 special counsel robert muller issues his 1st indictments against people close to the president. meant for trump's campaign director and gates deputy director of the campaign are both charged for breaking a series of laws papadopoulos foreign affairs advisor to the campaign is charged for having lied to the f.b.i. . robert motion festive season and 0 d. and on his 1st targets to the. right here by the f.b.i. . about his contacts with foreign nationals and a series of people in d.c. suddenly in deep deep trouble with those charged by muller become fair game for the press even if they're not directly linked to the russian. ference and in 2016 election. when the initial indictments were issued by mueller people rightfully said wait a minute this is supposed to be about russia so what's going on and a lot of people have said none of this is collusion who cares why is moller charging these crimes if it's not clues you know collusion or you know collusion that seems to be the focus don't pollute you know of drugs you know nothing no please no proof whatsoever present trumps

we now know negotiated not to read sections of his report so they're not going to have robert muller like at you know somebody doing an audio version of their book providing written you know reading certain segments of that which would have been very powerful for t.v. and so all of that is gone and so what we've had is a somewhat bumbling occasionally lost. person testifying in congress rapid fire questions from committee members sometimes confusing and it's been sort of messy and i think in that i think the objectives that the democrats have had of creating a moment of theater that would explicate and show really outrageous behavior from the white house is just not turned out to be the kind of storytelling that they had hoped for and we're going to see is it more of the same in the hearing this just got under way how does this one differ from the house judiciary committee. well adam adam schiff whom i talk to many times about this is very obsessed with the russia dimensions what they did the malfeasance of the russian involvement and the really the shrug of the shoulders that that d

muller with his excellent reputation really laying out the case against the president they didn't get that and democrats were really hoping that they would get that because they need the leadership needs to see the country move in one and impeach the president before they'll bring that up so the democrats on the job.

muller prior to this hearing beginning and we heard these special counsel robert mueller saying in his opening statements that he would be a hearing to the request by the department of justice essentially saying that he would only be testifying about what is in his report and i think that's why we're not seeing the fireworks perhaps that many of the democrats had hoped would come from this witness and even from the side of the republicans as well it appears that this prosecutor is playing straight down the line sticking to his testimony in fact we're seeing more grandstanding in this hearing coming from the lawmakers then from the witness robert mueller himself so it appears on that have that the president has so far through his department of justice and through his tweets successfully shaped this testimony if you will having said that even as robert mueller sticks to his report there is information in that report that contradicts the president you heard the democratic chair there jerry navl are stating that off the top of this hearing that despite the president's claims of no obstruct

obstruction of justice by the president robert muller is not spelling any of that out so what we're seeing here is the democratic members of congress are basically reading his report and he is basically saying true this is not exactly must what must see t.v. public and do you see louie gohmert there the republican trying to go after more of his team his credibility and trying to basically say that he shouldn't have even looked at obstruction of justice because that wasn't his mandate because muller is basically saying look. president could face obstruction of justice charges which is no longer president but the justice department says the sitting president can't be indicted that's probably the biggest takeaway from the hearing that's far which i think a lot of people expected would be a little bit more. a little bit more exciting than it actually did. pass the let's go over down to elizabeth sign because she's an associate professor of american studies and political science at george washington university joins us from washington d.c. good to have you with us let me start 1st of all elizab

muller say anything that we didn't already know robert muller said everything that was already in the report which is exactly what he said he would say going into this testimony today he was not going to stray beyond the report he said is on the record as saying the report the report is my testimony i won't go beyond that democrats are trying to get him to eliminate those thoughts illuminate those things and one of his one of the most common phrases today was go back to the text i refer back to the text he only wants to go by the written statement by the written report is that it was in the written report he said then that's the fact and that's where i stand. he didn't want to testify today i mean he's known as a man of few words in hey but ultimately he did come forward so why now well he was subpoenaed right which of course legally obligates him to appear before congress under threat of a penalty of possible jail time or fines so yes he. an extremely tight lipped you know is 10 years a sorry 12 years f.b.i. director appeared many times in front of congress has never never been one o

special counsel robert muller is about to go before congress to answer questions about his investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election let's take you to these live pictures coming in from capitol hill you can see there robert mala the former special investigator. making his way to his seat where he will shortly we understand after some introductory speeches be addressing members of the congress then the house judiciary committee he's got 2 hearings today well this all comes about 3 months since he handed in. his report on the nearly 2 year probe ended with moloch concluding russia did interfere in the 2016 u.s. presidential election during a may press conference maher added that while the report does not conclude president donald trump committed a crime it also does not exonerate him president trump is tweeting meanwhile about mother's testimony even before it begins here's a little bit of what he's been saying so far so democrats and others can illegally fabricate a crime trying pinning it on a very innocent president and when he fights back against this il

this is news coming to you live from berlin robert muller faces congress in washington the former special counsel prepares to give 5 hours of testimony before congress and committee on his report to the russian constitution does he have more to see a bunch donald trump. also coming up a transfer of power to resign me address those tolman for the last time before resigning as prime minister boris johnson takes over from power he's due to meet the queen and be invited to form a new government. put on a very warm welcome to this special edition of the news i'm on the we're following 2 big stories this hour the handover of power in britain and the mali hearings in washington we start in the u.s. capitol where the house of representatives judiciary committee has begun sharing testimony from former special counsel robert mala democratic lawmakers subpoenaed to answer the committee's questions after you published his findings into russia as a meddling of the 2016 election the former special counsel it was also asked to prove whether they was collusion between the trump campaign and the russian g

he finally breaks his silence robert muller delivers his 1st statement on the russia investigation he spent nearly 2 years leading he says he stands behind his report and he's now stepping down as special counsel but he also raises more questions about president trump. this is the day. i'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete we gave 500 words to 2500 sabina 1000000 400000 pages of we gave no i hope and expect the only time that i will speak to you in this manner he just gave that report why does he have to test the by it's ridiculous and the report is my testimony but they should have never been any moeller investigation. when a subject of an investigation obstruction that investigation or lying to investigators it strikes at the core of the government's effort to find the truth no collusion which leads to absolutely no obstruction if we had called confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. also coming up on the day boris johnson is heading to court he's accused of lying to the british public during a break that referendum

your special counsel robert muller and his silence on the probe offering some clarification on the report's conclusions this statement has drawn more. respect to impeachment question at this point all options are on the table and nothing should be ruled out and all of those things have been determined to not have taken place collusion conspiracy obstruction and again we consider this very much to be case closed or. rather while an opposition agrees with president maduro on neutral territory in norway. and israel is set for an election the rerun for the 1st time in its history after prime minister binyamin netanyahu fails to form a governing coalition. and the leader of the germany's ruling party is slammed for proposing a tighter radio lection media regulation blaming you tube bloggers for some party's heavy losses in the new parliament ballot. so what rules should apply. these are deploying shoes we will need to discuss not just. media policy in the future of democracy all right that does it for me and with the latest on these stories you can go to argue dot com stay with us now for the ka

muller delivered a clear statement essentially saying that if you could have indicted the us president he would have done it and that's not the exoneration donald trump and his attorney general have been claiming it's a setback for him and his rhetoric calling the investigation an illegal witch hunt but it also emboldens democrats whose calls for impeachment have been getting louder and louder every week. well our correspondent was in washington when the miller investigation began she's been following this story for sever since and she's with us here in our studio a lot of people waiting to hear from robert miller so everyone is watching with bated breath parsing his every word and i want to start with one of the statements that's really been picked up upon he said he was if he was confident that the president didn't commit a crime he would have said so what do you make of that there's a lot to read between the lines here unfortunately this is how a lot of washington simply works the 1st thing to note is that this statement that he gave to the press today was starkly different from wha

we start with the man behind the miller report special counsel robert muller he addressed the public on wednesday for the 1st time and he says the last time miller is stepping down from the justice department where he was investigating russian interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election and possible collusion with the president and his campaign miller says his 448 page report speaks for itself but as for the president's innocence on the question of obstruction of justice here's what he set the order appointing me special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could of struck the investigation we conducted that investigation and we kept the office of the acting attorney general apprised of the progress of our work and has set forth in the report after that investigation if we had come out confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime the introduction to the volume 2 of our report explains that decision it explains that under longstanding depart

well i think seeing muller himself and getting a chance to see the man himself speak to what he found i think is potentially extremely powerful because there are lots of cover and little corners of his report that in very precise legal language say words to the effect of we were not able to find this double trump refused to sit for an interview with us and so there are all kinds of incriminating details in the report in fact there's a pile of evidence of what could and should be called collusion there where you have the trunk campaign aware that a hostile foreign powers trying to interfere in our election and in fact encouraging that concealing that facilitating that in a variety of different not provably criminal ways but nevertheless enthusiastic ways and i think to see robert muller who has been held up even before this assignment as sort of a paragon of rectitude and right thinking and right behavior in our country to see him react in the moment so what he found i think could be politically explosive ok john f. ing or thank you so much for joining us. you better show here secretar

you bar has defended his actions over the handling of the russian report submitted by special counsel robert muller he made the comments while testifying before the senate judiciary committee barr released a controversial short summary of the report after miller completed his four hundred forty eight page findings in march now on tuesday it emerged the attorney general received a letter from special counsel muller expressing concern over that summary mueller said barres conclusions did not fully capture the context nature and substance of his report that's from the letter to moronic senators are now pressing bar on his finding a chick. rather president obstructed the investigation the letter that special counsel muller sent to barr expressed his concerns and it he tells are the summary letter provided to congress and released to the public on march twenty first as we just said did not fully capture the context nature and substance of his office's work and conclusions and he said that had led to public computer about critical aspects of the results of the investigation and his opening stateme

well bill barr is placing the blame with the media he is seeing that robert mueller was upset at the interpretation that the media was putting on what came out is a four page summary and bill bonde is saying that it actually wasn't a summary of the four page summary that he came out with and said no collusion which remember is not what robert miller was investigating he was investigating whether or not there was a conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign so he said there was no collusion nor struction of justice robert miller itemized ten places where he believed there could be a case made for obstruction of justice and he left it to robert mueller to bill barr and the justice department to make a decision and bill barr decided that there was no obstruction this is been a very informative couple of hours a lot of it is quite dense but there are so it appears very polite on the surface but there are a number of spiky exchanges particularly between the democrats and bill by the democrats believe that bill barr in the four page letter that he put out which is what robert m

robert muller wrote to you expressing very specific concerns that your march twenty fourth letter from here testifying on a per night at your march twenty fourth letter failed to capture the. quote mr maule or the context nature and substance of course of his report. and or died it really struck me stronger wrote the church letter threaten to undermine the central purpose for which the department pointed the special counsel sure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigation. why did you test find it for night that you didn't know the concerns being expressed mahler's team would have backed you heard those concerns directly from mr paul or two weeks before. well as i said i talked directly to to bob muller about his letter to may and specifically asked them what exactly are your concerns are you saying that the march twenty fourth letter was misleading or inaccurate or what he indicated that it was not he was not saying that and that what he was concerned about and my question well i'm i'm i'm getting to the question which is the question from crist was reports have emerged