If we had confidence that the Con did not commit a crime we would have stated that

[malaise]

That is the most important line.

[Pachamama]

1. In his 9 min speech, he had a few very important points - that one was key

[hlthe2b]

2. Exactly. For those disappointed, that statement ALONE ON CAMERA is worth it.

[malaise]

3. Will be the lead on all news casts

The Con obstructed justice

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Yep. Cue the Dem election ads!!

[eleny]

4. That's the one glimmer of hope, imo

But I didn't like him telling the House of Reps to "talk to the hand". That's how it sounded to me. I feel he should have been more respectful to the first institution of our government since he's supposed to be an institutionalist.

[leftstreet]

5. But they didn't have evidence he did? I don't get it

What kind of LENGTHY investigation ends up inconclusive?

[watoos]

14. It's pretty conclusive to me when he said,

if we found evidence to exonerate Trump from obstruction of justice, we would have done so.

[uponit7771]

7. Disagree, his most important line was he wasn't going to go beyond the report in front of congress

[FBaggins]

21. Correct

And he didn't go beyond it in that statement either.

Essentially "you already have everything you're going to get from me"

[uponit7771]

22. +1, yeah ... fuck that ... that's some bullshit

[Miles Archer]

8. MSNBC was "speculating" before he came out

Wondered if Barr was going to come out with him. Thank Christ he didn't.

But he absolutely did not "fully exonerate" Trump. He didn't charge him because he couldn't consider he is a sitting president.

When Trump is no longer a sitting president, all bets are off.

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. Barr is in Alaska, according to CNN.

[watoos]

9. I heard him say,

his hands were tied, he was not permitted to indict the president, let me paraphrase his follow up, Congress do your job, impeach.

That's what I heard. Loud and clear.

[malaise]

11. Yep

Loud and clear

[gldstwmn]

18. He reiterated several times. Impeachment.

Also I know believe what Wolff said in his book was true.

[csziggy]

32. BUT Mueller and the talking head are ignoring that Congress does not have the FULL report

So Congress does not have all the information that Mueller and his team had.

Is this a push by Mueller to get Congress to require the full report from Barr - or for Barr to release the full report to Congress?

It has been clear since the redacted Mueller Report was released and everyone was able to read Mueller's conclusions in his introductions that Trump and his campaign did conspire with the Russians - but Mueller could not get enough evidence to make a conclusive decision on it since the Trump administration has been actively obstructing the investigation from Day One.

Whoa - Andrea Mitchell just said "Did NOT exonerate the President." She is no longer waffling!

[spanone]

10. "If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so"

[watoos]

17. Yepper.

[HubertHeaver]

25. I think that is just another way of saying

"he is one slimy son-of-a-bitch".

[malaise]

26. Thanks

Corrected

[spanone]

28. 👍🏼

[Stuart G]

12. I do think there was some evidence there..but not enough to prove that Trump

committed the crime. Very circumstantial, but not enough to solidly prove the case. If Mueller had said he had evidence, then why not indict?. So he says there is no evidence..in a way, is saying there is not enough evidence to indict. That is what I think he is saying. But that could be totally wrong.

[watoos]

20. 900 former prosecutors and judges disagree with you.

[csziggy]

33. No, that is not what Mueller said

He said DOJ guidelines prevent indicting a sitting president. Then he said if Trump had been innocent of obstruction, he would have said so.

I infer from those two statements that if the DOJ guidelines did not exist, Trump WOULD have been indicted.

[malaise]

34. Clear or don't clear and he did not clear the Con

Buttigeig is 100% correct

[Sunsky]

13. I was skeptical before the statement

However, I'm happy to say Mueller proved me wrong. He basically sanctioned impeachment without using the word. Congress do your job.

[gldstwmn]

16. That's exactly what he conveyed.

[malaise]

35. Same here

It was a strong statement

[gldstwmn]

15. Yup. He basically blew his "no obstruction" sign out of the water.

[Lars39]

19. Sounds like another tick on the checklist to impeachment was done.

[malaise]

23. Brennan is indeed discussing that right now

The Con was by no means exonerated - the line we quoted is explicit.

[uponit7771]

24. +1, but Mueller should speak before congress and go beyond the report. That's some punk shit to tell

... congress that the report is all we're going to get from him.

Screw that

[Lars39]

29. He probably knows he won't get by without that.

Almost like a dare.

[uponit7771]

30. IDK, he sounded pretty resolute to me

[Catherine Vincent]

31. Congress, please proceed!