i don't think it's a coincidence that the first congress in early congress delegated power along these lines to the president. i don't think it's coincidence the first congress is the one most familiar with the failure of articles the federation and the needs of the initial government. they created the first departments, the first taxes and other laws and they also recognized they needed to delegate a certain amount of discretion to the president. i don't think that's a coincidence. i think our constitutional system has a gravitational pull in that direction. it's hard to define in advance with an emergency. i have been working on an article in financial contexts about risk dealing with systemic financial harm. and very skeptical you can write these things in advance that you can define in advance what emergencies are. if we could define in advance so many emergencies, then they wouldn't be emergencies. we would've seen them coming. that's why think it's important to leave as we inevitably will, it in the hands of the president. i am wary of congress interposing itself after the emerge

he could give congress the complete report, summary, or simply tell congress that the mueller investigation has concluded. the clinton administration regulations do not require a full report to congress. however, during his confirmation, attorney general barr said he wants to be transparent with congress and the public consistent with the rules and the law. we have no reason to think attorney general barr would back away from those statements he's made before the senate judiciary committee and, mr. speaker, i believe he's truthful and will be truthful to his word to make it as much possible as he possibly can. the american should not expect another starr report. the clinton justice department made sure another president would not have salacious stories aired before the american people. janet reno herself testified before congress in 1999 that it was a bad idea for independent counsels to publish final reports. many members of the democratic majority in congress today voted against the public release of materials related to the starr report and, mr. speaker, i would ask unanimous consent to

the president and congress-- runaround congress is unlawful. as public citizens have explained in a lawsuit filed on the president the same day he issued his emergency declaration , my lawyers will argue the legality to the president's actions but the bottom line for me is that the federal government is threatening to take my land to fulfill a campaign promise but without any need. there is no invasion in starr county. no emergency. no need for a wall across the land. i live on a peaceful stretch of property in south texas in the united states of america. no drugs, no gangs, nothing from across my property. there is no need for a wall on our land. we should not have to sacrifice our land to a slogan. we will lose land, privacy, and our way of life. thank you for granting me this opportunity to testify. i'm ready to address any questions you may have. >> we appreciate your attendance and the testimony. mr. jonathan turley, another individual with a louisiana background, although go tigers, the professor of public interest law and the george wash

unconstrained by previous congresses. in adopting its rules, the senate would proceed according to general parliamentary procedure, which included mechanisms for preventing filibusters. walsh took aim at the idea that the senate was a continuing body, that because two thirds carried over from congress to congress, so did its existing rules. walsh's proposal was too much for most senators and the parties gathered and adopted and amended rule 22. this allowed 16 senators to petition for a vote, to set a limit of 100 hours of further debate on a measure, and required two thirds of senators present and voting to end cloture. the next bill wouldn't be taken until 30 years. cloture was discussed several times between 1917 and 1918 and invoked four ties. southern democrats invoked anti-lynching demonstration and filibustered anti-poll tax and fair employment bills. as the filibuster became associated with anti-civil rights, a growing bipartisan group targeted the cloture rule to make it easier to end debate. unfortunately for th

he's notifying congress formally. there's never anything the special counsel sought to do that bill barr stopped mueller from doing. and that's fascinating. of course everybody would like to hear that from robert mueller as well as from bill barr but at this point it's only bill barr who is speaking on mueller's behalf. robert mueller is still at this point publicly silent as he has been from the very beginning. although we'll have more on that in a moment. here's more from the letter, though, quote the special counsel has submitted to me today a quote, confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions he has reached as required by the regulations. quote, i am reviewing the report and anticipate that i may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. so this is the attorney general telling us that he has mueller's report and he is not handing the report over to congress, right? this letter from bill barr is not a cover letter with mueller'

he's notifying congress formally. there was never anything the special counsel sought to do that bill barr stopped mueller from doing. and that's fascinating. of course, everybody would like to hear that from robert mueller as well as from bill barr but at this point it's only bill barr who is speaking on mueller's behalf. robert mueller is still at this point publicly silent, as he has been from the very beginning, although we'll have more on that in a moment. here is more from the letter, though. "the special counsel has submitted to me today a quote confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions he has reached, as required by the regulations." "i am reviewing the report and anticipate i may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend." so this is the attorney general telling us he has mueller's report and he is not handing the report over to congress. right? this letter from bill barr is not a cover letter with mueller's findings att

in your congress on hr one and on our congress. what is not lost on the public congressesident, last was the most closed congress in history. as the government being shut down at the opening of this congress was the first time in history because you did not get your job done. the rights ofhat the minorities and we want to honor the rights of the minorities. -- minority. nothing has been done. those discussions will continue. i understand the gentleman's point. we use the motion to recommit. you have used the road -- motion to recommit. there is no proposed change currently under consideration. >> i think the gems meant for clarifying that. i hope that tradition continues on that this motion to meet -- recommit stays in order. there are some members that if the -- numbers that if the motion to recommit passes would vote for final passage. it actually was identifying a serious problem. it mentioned in the motion to recommit, what happens in some communities where they are allowing and want the illegals to vote. -- illegals to vote. w

million-dollar congress. it was the first time the house had appropriated a billion dollars in federal moneys. right, theg diplomat, describes speaker read this way, he does what he likes without consulting administration or his followers, whom he despises. he not only broke the minorities long ability to block legislation, he also made the house and active reading agent of change. active leading agent of change. not only did the speaker control the flow of debate on the floor, now unimpeded by minority filibusters, he chaired the rules committee. it's at the very terms of debate, and as if this were not enough, the speaker also made every committee assignment in the house irrespective of party affiliation. inultimately left the house 1903,four years later in uncle joe cannon ascended to the speakership. he was elected to the house in 1872, and cannon was a political conservative who backed big business and believed in small government. and -- intobacco copious amounts and constantly dangled an unlit cigar ou

congress and only congress has the power to declare war. even though the president may call for a declaration of war. and, when the united states is involved in international agreement the senate is all important. for example, the signature of our secretary of state to the united nation's charter had to be approved by a two thirds majority of the senate. a clause in the constitution states that treaties are made by the president but only with the advise and consent of the senate. >> from the capitol, down pennsylvania avenue to look at the white house. that is where the president lives. the white house represents the executive branch of the government. before he got through, i could see why uncle jim said the president has the biggest and toughest job in the world. >> yes. bill, the white house is both the home and office of the president. the president is chosen by the people through the electoral college. some of the president's duties are set by the constitution, other established by laws, treaties and public opinion. the president's mai

. >> why did you want to come to congress? >> well, sam rayburn and my mother were schoolmates at mayo college, a little college before east texas state teachers commerce. now it's texas a&m at commerce. my mother and nine other girls. sam rayburn to run for state representative. they had been good friends ever sense. she wrote a letter to sam rayburn when world war ii broke out and asked me to help me get an officer, get officers training school. he didn't call her back or write her back. he came to her breakfast table. he said there is four reasons, all of them are his grades. i graduated in a class of 38 but i graduated number 38. i passed. i was always last or had the lowest. i always have been able to make it some way. somebody's been good to me. >> was it sam rayburn that made you want to come to congress? >> yeah. because my mother spoke to highly of him. a bunch of republicans came to me one time when i was a county judge in rockwall and was going to put up money for me to run against sam rayburn. my mother asked me, i

we the public or the congress. so how and why did the attorney general decide to do what he's been doing now for a week with the mueller report? he's written up these multiple documents about it now including what appears to be half of a sentence about the president not being prosecuted for conspiring with russia. the attorney general has decided we're not allowed to see the other half of that sentence. we've also got the attorney general's own declaration that he doesn't think there should be any prosecution on obstruction of justice. that's nothing he was asked for or expected to provide and required to provide but this is what he's doing. he's keeping the mueller report to himself and making these sequential announcements about it. and after he went out on that limb a week ago tonight saying that there shouldn't be obstruction prosecutions and here is what you get to know about the president and russia and it's half a sentence and says everything is fine, after going out on that limb last sunday, now tonight we'

unconstrained by previous congresses. in adopting its rules, the senate would proceed according to general parliamentary procedure, which included mechanisms for preventing filibusters. walsh took aim at the idea that the senate was a continuing body, that because two thirds carried over from congress to congress, so did its existing rules. much's proposal was too for most senators and the parties gathered and adopted and amended rule 22. this allowed 16 senators to petition for a vote, to set a limit of 100 hours of further debate on a measure, and required two thirds of senators present and voting to end cloture. the next bill wouldn't be taken until 30 years. cloture was discussed several times between 1917 and 1918 and invoked four ties. southern democrats invoked anti-lynching demonstration and filibustered anti-poll tax and fair employment bills. as the filibuster became associated with anti-civil rights, a growing bipartisan group targeted the cloture rule to make it easier to end debate. unfortunately for them, cl

well, congress did that. bipartisan group delivered compromise legislation rejected the proposed 3w0rder wall -- border wall as ineffective. alternatively it made effective robust investments in border security. congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation. the president agreed to sign it. then he issued a national emergency declaration to raid funds from other departments to secure funding for a border wall. congress has repeatedly voted against. as already said he's made it about drugs. the wall will be ineffective. he's made it about the humanitarian crycy, the wall will be ineffective. how is he going to pay for it? well, he's going to take money that the department of defense was, was going to spend on high priority military construction projects, which will ultimately undermine the training, readiness, and quality of life for our men and women in the armed forces. in 235c9, general robert neller, commandant of the marines, has detailed that the unplanned, unbudgeted shift of funds to deploy troops to

it does not seem members of congress cared about it. the hush money payments and what's going on in the southern district of new york of that investigation has worried the lawyers for the president because that's a crime. if the southern district of new york finds creative way to pursue charges whether it is against the president or his family, that's where the issue is. it seems like no one wants to pay a lot of attention to that. there is been a lot of focus on russia collusion but what about the hush money payment? >> members of congress are never going to impeach on the payments to the women in my judgment. number one, there have not been a record of charged cases and convictions on that specific issue whether or not a payment before the campaign, clearly the justice department takes the position that it is but it is not a clear legal precedent. so they're going to rely on something related to the conspiracy or obstruction which seems to be sort of the clearest political jeopardy. >> congress is going to have a hard time now. democr

that in the congress of the united states, this congress, we had over 100 women members of congress serving at the same time. 100. over 100 members. we had 91 on our side, 15 on the other side but we made a decision, hopefully they will too, that's just talking about the house. now at the -- in the same congress, next year, but in the same congress, we will be observing the 100th anniversary of women having the right to ote. [applause] it's a big steppingstone. again, with all due respect to everyone who has served, our caucus is over 60% women. people of color, lgbtq. 60% of our caucus. that's remarkable, right? different than when ump there. our diversity sour strength. i say to the members as we, shall i say, channel our exuberances. [laughter] our diversity is our strength. but our unity is our power. [applause] david: so in other words, when off freshman member of congress who has a lot of twitter followers and so forth and they get a lot of attention, that doesn't bther you? ms. pelosi: no, actually, i think it's important, especially for women and newcomers to the congress to know, t

he could give congress the complete report, summary, or simply tell congress that the mueller investigation has concluded. the clinton administration regulations do not require a full report to congress. however, during his confirmation, attorney general barr said he wants to be transparent with congress and the public consistent with the rules and the law. we have no reason to think attorney general barr would back away from those statements he's made before the senate judiciary committee and, mr. speaker, i believe he's truthful and will be truthful to his word to make it as much possible as he possibly can. the american should not expect another starr report. the clinton justice department made sure another president would not have salacious stories aired before the american people. janet reno herself testified before congress in 1999 that it was a bad idea for independent counsels to publish final reports. many members of the democratic majority in congress today voted against the public release of materials related to the starr report and, mr. speaker, i would ask unanimous consent to

go to the congress. bill barr decided, no, that question should not go to congress without my opinion. and i'll add this. it is even less likely that bob mueller knowing that bill barr applied for the job by sending this unsolicited memo talking about how bob mueller's obstruction theory was bogus, what are the odds that bob mueller would say, yeah, let's let that guy decide about my two years of work product? >> and you've worked in the justice department yourself. you were a former assistant u.s. attorney. you were a former federal prosecutor. my understanding as an observer and a person who reads the news is that it never works in the way where a prosecutor leading an investigation considering potential criminal charges against somebody assembles all the evidence and then punts and then the attorney general decides without any recommendation from the prosecutor whether or not those charges will be brought. i mean, is that -- >> you know, it is i think maybe not that simple because in a normal circumst

that's why congress gets and congress is able to share with the public is so critical in terms of restoring trust in this administration. >> and attorney general barr, he said he pledged that he would try to be as transparent as possible i think going to that very point. for him to do something less of that would be really problematic. >> this issue, help give us this sort of layperson's understanding of what we should anticipate. the white house is sort of in a unique position. they want to be able to fight to protect whatever they want to fight to protect. >> right. >> if it exonerates the president there will be a -- >> exactly. >> so but separately the same time they are anxious about geling it first. what do you expect as it relates here? what would be protected? >> well, criminal conduct is not protected. so that will frame the debate. someone is going to have to look at this and say there's criminal conduct or there isn't criminal conduct. that's the first level. the odd thing about executive privilege is that the white house let everybody go talk to mueller and now -- which you woul

i don't think it's a coincidence the first congress and the early congresses delegated power on these lines to presidents. i don't think it's coincidence the first congress is the one most familiar with the failure of the articles of confederation and the needs of the initial government. they created the first departments, they created the first taxes and other laws and they also recognized they needed to delegate certain amount of discretion to the president to deal with contingencies. i don't think that's a coincidence. i think our constitutional system has a gravitational pull in that direction. of course, it's hard to define in advance what is an emergency. i have been forever working on a law review article in the financial regulation context about systemic risk and trying to create a regulatory structure in advance for dealing with systemic financial harm and i'm very skeptical that you can write these things in advance, you can sort of define in advance what emergencies are. we can -- if we could define in advance so many emergencies, they wouldn't be emergencies. we would have

we the public or the congress. so how and why did the attorney general decide to do what he's been doing now for a week with the mueller report? he's written up these multiple documents about it now including what appears to be half of a sentence about the president not being prosecuted for conspireing with russia. the attorney general has decided we're not allowed to see the other half of that sentence. we've also got the attorney general's own decoloration, he thinks there shouldn't be prosecution on obstruction of justice. that's nothing he was asked for or expected to provide and required to provide but this is what he's doing. he's keeping the mueller report to himself and making these announcements about it. and after he went out on that limb a week ago tonight saying that there shouldn't be obstruction prosecutions and here is what you get to know about the president and russia and half a sentence and says everything is fine. after going out on that limb last sunday, now, tonight, we've got this letter where

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the first congress in early congress delegated power along these lines to the president. i don't think it's coincidence the first congress is the one most familiar with the failure of articles the federation and the needs of the initial government. they created the first departments, the first taxes and other laws and they also recognized they needed to delegate a certain amount of discretion to the president. i don't think that's a coincidence. i think our constitutional system has a gravitational pull in that direction. it's hard to define in advance with an emergency. working on an article in financial contexts about risk dealing with systemic financial harm. and very skeptical you can write these things in advance that you can define in advance what emergencies are. you can define in advance so many emergencies, then they wouldn't be emergencies. we would've seen them coming. that's why think it's important to leave as we inevitably will, it in the hands of the president. i am wary of congress interposing itself after the emergency has started. i agree, we need to wor

well, congress did that. bipartisan group delivered compromise legislation rejected the proposed 3w0rder wall -- border wall as ineffective. alternatively it made effective robust investments in border security. congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation. the president agreed to sign it. then he issued a national emergency declaration to raid funds from other departments to secure funding for a border wall. congress has repeatedly voted against. as already said he's made it about drugs. the wall will be ineffective. he's made it about the humanitarian crycy, the wall will be ineffective. how is he going to pay for it? well, he's going to take money that the department of defense was, was going to spend on high priority military construction projects, which will ultimately undermine the training, readiness, and quality of life for our men and women in the armed forces. in 235c9, general robert neller, commandant of the marines, has detailed that the unplanned, unbudgeted shift of funds to deploy troops to

the floor of congress. host: are you referring to the speech or debate clause we talked about earlier? caller: yes. i tried to research it, my understanding is you cannot be penalized for anything said on the floor of congress. host: i will read you article 1, section 6 clause 1. for any speech or debate in any house, senators or representatives, shall not be questioned in any other place for that speech. the state ofr as israel goes, israel is an abomination that never should have been created. it was created in our image. for people who walks -- watch fox news and think i am anti-semitic, i cannot be anti-semitic because i support the palestinian people. host: this is sid in upper , maryland.arlboro caller: she should focus on the issues, not express her opinion. she seems to express her opinion more than really focus on what her role is on that committee and we are always going to be a christian nation, we will always stand for israel. we are never going to be an islamic country and we are not going to p

. >> why did you want to come to congress? >> well, sam rayburn and my mother were schoolmates at mayo college, a little college before east texas teachers state college at commerce, texas. now it's texas a&m at commerce. they elected a good friend. she wrote a letter to sam rayburn when world war ii broke out and asked me to help me get an officer, get officers training school. he didn't call her back or write her back. he came to her breakfast table. he said i can't hire him because of his grades. i graduated in a class of 38 but i graduated number 38. i always have been able to make it some way. somebody's been good to me. >> was it sam rayburn that made you want to come to congress? >> yeah. because my mother spoke to highly of me. a bunch of republicans came to me one time when i was a county judge in rockwall and was going to put up money for me to run against sam rayburn. my mother asked me, if you do that, where are you going to get breakfast, you know? i wasn't going to run against sam rayburn. he was a great man. i t

well, congress did that. bipartisan group delivered compromise legislation rejected the proposed border wall as ineffective. alternatively, it made effective robust investments in border security. congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation. the president agreed to sign it. then he issued a national emergency declaration to raid funds from other departments to secure funding for a border wall. congress has repeatedly voted against. as already said he's made it about drugs. the wall will be ineffective. effective. he's made it about the humanitarian crycy, the wall will be ineffective. how is he going to pay for it? well, he's going to take money that the department of defense was, was going to spend on high priority military construction projects, which will ultimately undermine the training, readiness, and quality of life for our men and women in the armed forces. in 235c9, general robert neller, commandant of the marines, has detailed that the unplanned, unbudgeted shift of funds to deploy troops to the

that's when he came to congress. somebody else came to congress, hale boggs' wife, lynndie boggs, who some of you may have served with. and probably two very different personalities. but they formed a special bond because of the unique nature in which they came to congress. he shared with me some of those stories. it just shows you how sometimes our differences can ultimately bring us together to at least pay tribute not only to an institution but respect our backgrounds and how we all come from here different walks of life. ultimately it's our desire to serve the people that we represent. that's the thing i love the most about serving with don young is that he has such a passion and he fights for his beliefs. and he works with other people. we all know that for 37 years one of his great causes was to open up anwr. and finally when we were on the white house lawn in december of 2017 to have that ceremony and watch don young giddy as a school child as the president was making that announcement, and then to see him sti

the vetoed bill and message are sent back to congress and this ends the matter unless congress can pass the bill over the veto by a 2 thirds vote of both houses. and then it becomes a law without the president's signature. the president can also appear in person before a joint session of congress to explain a veto or to propose new legislation, congress is then free to accept or reject the president's suggestions. and then it starts all over again. the great lawmaking assembly line goes on, creating laws and diversified as the nation size. labor, nationally defense, government departments, regulation of transportation, foreign trade, taxes, bills, bills, bills. and every act informed to the written constitution of the united states which fixes the rules, rules made by the people themselves. acting to represent of the people, rules for the people, rules which govern the great enterprise of democracy that is america. new ár muse new. >>> on sunday, a campaign rally in front of trump hotel. announcing the bid for precedency the week before. live coverage begins on cspan at 12:00 eastern >

approved by congress for such activities as military barracks and hospitals. using funds already approved by congress avoids months or years of litigation which would make it unlikely that the full 234 miles are ever built. mister president, may be a couple weeks before the senate votes on a resolution regarding the national emergency declaration. so we don't know yet exactly what we will be voting on. there is time for the president's lawyers to take another look and determine whether we can both build 234 miles of border wall the president has requested. and avoid this dangerous precedent. then the senate could support the president's border request and be faithful to our own to support the constitution the create separation of powers as a crucial check on executive power that goes to the heart of our freedom. .. thank you. >> how about one for him? [applause] >> thank you. did that video make you feel good? we know what we are up against. we know. they are being very clear these days and yesterday was a busy day for all of us. checking for the hotel. a lot

congress is beginning to look there. and i know from my reporting that robert mueller you know also got his arms around some of it and sent it out to other investigations. so the mueller report is not the end. it's the beginning. >> have you gotten a sense that the president blames jared? i mean if it was jared saying to him fire james comey, fire james comey, is the president blaming him for all that's transpired since? >> it goes in waves is what i say in the book. you know, the president absolutely -- was furious with jared for not filling out his security clearance forms properly and hated the negative attention it got. he was furious with jared and ivanka over the misuse of e-mails and what's app, the very thing that's come up in the news this week the oversight committee is now looking at because of course, that's what he went after hillary clinton for. he's actually i think annoyed he's he had to override every intelligence agency to give jared and ivanka a security clearance. so and i say in the book he had asked

on h.r. 1 in your congress and h.r. 1 in our congress. and all those figures i think are probably lost on the public. what's not lost on the public or the press that's covered it last congress was the most closed congress in history. just as the government being shut down at the beginning of this congress was the first time that happened in history because you didn't get your job done. i will tell the leader, i i understand the rights of the minority. we want to honor the rights of the minority. yes, there is a lot of discussion. but as you know, nothing has been done. i'm sure those discussions will continue. i understand the gentleman's point. we use the motion to recommit. you have used the motion to recommit. there is no proposed change currently under consideration. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman for clarifying that. i hope that tradition continues on that this motion to recommit stays in order because there are some members that, if the motion to recommit passes, would vote for final passage. so that is one of the tools that's u

and outsidend of te congress. we had a great desire to have him come in voluntarily not underna subpoena if it were necessary to subpoena him then there's always the risk the witness decides not to cooperate to take the fifth we are not able to provide information pertinent to the investigation so that was the extent my communication i was on the pho phone. several republicans have pushed out a false narrative that i'd d spend infinite is simply not rue and they know it's not true but it makes for good commentary said they'vso they've pushed ous falsehood. but proper sessions are done in every credible investigation. i will point out the special counsel's office according to the open testimony had seven sessions undoubtedly far in excess of the staff that we had into these are important when they are conducted, but a large part involved is reviewing the transcript withs prior testimon. >> jessica stone from chinese television. >> itelevision. >> it may not surprise you i have a question i'm wondering twofold if yo

will mueller testify to congress? will the justice department allow him to testify if congress asks him to be there or if they subpoena him to be there? if the justice department tries to block mueller from testifying and answering questions about his investigation, howl that be ajudd indicated and how long will it take to get a resolution? question 13, can democrats in congress get the underlying evidence from mueller's investigation in addition to the mueller report itself? remember the truckloads of evidence, van loads of evidence the ken starr investigation drove up to capitol hill to accompany that sordid written report that the starr investigation did about bill clinton? will this congress get access to the underlying evidence, too, or just the report or worse than that, just the redacted report or worse even than that, just william barr's assertions about what the report might say? 14. in real terms, not just in technical law school textbook, but in real terms, does the disillusion have effects that derive from

congress is losing the runway to seriously fight with his administration. if they want to take this off the ground, they may want to avoid a court fight. jane: congress has a lot of its own investigations underway into possible collusion, russian interference, and trump activities generally. do you t this report will fuel those investigations, or could it take the wind out of the sales? jonathan: it could do either. the special counsel investigation was narrower than the scope of other investigations. mueller did not get into all lot of the tax issues and insurance what issues. many of those things were sent to the southern district of new york just to investigate some issues for the this necearily will stop those invested -- will not stop those investigations. but let's not kid ourselves, mueller comes back and says "i did not have any direct evidence of collusion between trump on the russians," that vindicates the president to a degree. that was the narrative, and this is not the conclusion democrats would want. jane: if he does implicate the president, a

it is for congress to decide. i think what he's saying loud and clear is this matter is far from over. congress wants full transparency and they bauwant to see this ret and they will decide whether obstruction of justice occurred. >> we have about four minutes on balance here and i want to get the final views based on what we heard from the chairman. katie? >> i think we should start asking ourselves why did robert mueller basically seem to abdicate or punt on one of his three major jobs, trying to figure out if russia swayed the election, which he did determine happened and whether the trump campaign colluded and he said he did not have evidence on that charge. on the third claim he decided to leave it to the attorney general and we should start asking ourselves why that is and in addition to asking bill barr, we should also see if mr. mueller will come to the hill as well to answer that question. >> malcolm? >> yes. can you hear me? >> go ahead. >> i was saying the report is looking for us to have had tacit or e

congress, mostly democrats, all democrats in congress want to keep going. our attitude is sort of, enough is enough. you had your two years, you had all this money, you had all this opportunity to look everywhere and you did and there's nothing there. there's no there there. it's time to move on. enough of this. apparently democrats refuse to accept that. we don't know what more mueller could have done. in fact, in another part of mr. barr's letter, you see that they gave the president zero special treatment. there was a lot of conjecture that somehow the president would get special treatment about the doj not indicting a sitting president. the barr letter makes it very, very clear that special treatment wasn't applied here. there's still no grounds for any criminal charges. there's no collusion or obstruction. i know a lot of friends in the other party are still upset that donald trump is president. but it's time to move on. because enough is enough when it comes to collusion and obstruction. >> but i asked about the president's written answers, will he re

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because initially, it was just going to go to congress and congress would decide what was released to the public. and this was a new development with that, geoff bennett, you're at the white house, the president is in palm beach, he's in mar-a-lago, do we have any reaction from the president himself? he's been unusually quiet. >> yeah, uncharacteristic silent. i'm today, katy, that that is by design. the president actually heeding the advise of advisers saying take it down a notch. they're actually taking the lack of indictments as good news as the president's team as we all do, wait to find out what mueller's conclusions are. they're asking the president to help not make the issue worse by staying on twitter. but sarah sanders saying from the white house, they are trying to keep their distance from this report. they're not directly involved in the doj and the communications from the doj and congress. she put out a tweet yesterday that they have not seen the report, they've not been briefed on it and today, we're told that tweet is still actionable. >> what do you make of bill ar in s

congress delegated by statute. every conservative should have reported the resolution of disapproval. every member of congress should take this emergency as a signal it is time for congress to take back responsibilities it so casually shed over the years. you will find that op-ed -- editorial in the washington examiner's website if you want to look it up for yourself. freddie is next, democrats line from illinois. hi. caller: good morning.