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00:00:00.000The Mueller report exonerates President Trump on collusion, lets him off the hook on obstruction, and generally melts down the entire media.
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00:02:00.000OK, so last Friday after my show, the Mueller report essentially broke in the media, at least the top line of the Mueller report broke in the media.
00:02:11.000And then over the weekend, we found out from Attorney General Barr, William Barr, That not only would there be no indictments, there was no evidence of collusion, and that President Trump was not going to be indicted on obstruction, that there was no clear evidence of obstruction.
00:02:26.000We're going to get to Barr's report in just one second.
00:02:29.000But first, I need to remind you where we came from, how we got here, because it's been two long years.
00:02:35.000I feel like the old lady at the end of Titanic.
00:02:39.000It's been two long years since we started this whole debacle with the claim that President Trump was in cahoots with the Russians, was working hand in glove with Vladimir Putin in order to skew the results of the 2016 election, that he and his campaign had been working with Putin in order to hack the DNC, reveal the emails, come after Hillary Clinton, and generally destroy electoral democracy in the United States.
00:03:03.000And this was the constantly repeated refrain.
00:03:11.000For two years, the Washington Post and the New York Times and everybody ran with this.
00:03:16.000The Democrats made it their talking point.
00:03:18.000It was their chief talking point that President Trump was not actually the legitimate president of the United States.
00:03:23.000Instead, he had been installed by Russian fiat.
00:03:25.000Through nefarious means, Hillary Clinton was the actual real president of the United States.
00:03:31.000So here is just a quick montage of some of the members of the media and Democrats claiming that President Trump was guilty of the gravest sort of treason.
00:03:40.000There are indictments in this president's future.
00:04:29.000The conventional wisdom was that President Trump was going to do jail time, at the very least he would be impeached, that the evidence would come out.
00:04:34.000People were going nuts over all of this stuff.
00:04:36.000I mean, for goodness sake, people were selling votive candles of Robert Mueller online, on Etsy.
00:04:45.000Like worship candles of Robert Mueller.
00:04:47.000SNL did an entire number where they say at Christmas time called, all I want for Christmas is you.
00:04:52.000And it was a picture of Bob Mueller in the background.
00:05:06.000And you had high ranking members of US intelligence.
00:05:09.000People like John Brennan, the former head of the CIA.
00:05:13.000Under Obama, who was there while all of this was going on in 2016.
00:05:16.000You had John Brennan on MSNBC two weeks ago, suggesting that President Trump was headed for jail.
00:05:23.000Friday is the day that the grand jury indictments come down.
00:05:25.000And also, this Friday is better than next Friday, because next Friday is the 15th of March, which is the Ides of March.
00:05:32.000And I don't think Robert Mueller will want to have that dramatic flare of the Ides of March when he is going to be delivering what I think are going to be his indictments, the final indictments, as well as the report that he gives the Attorney General.
00:05:43.000So if anybody from the Trump family, an extended family, is going to be indicted, it would be in the final act of Mueller's investigation.
00:05:56.000And it was a mess of former intelligence heads saying this sort of stuff.
00:06:00.000It was Andrew McCabe, the ousted former acting FBI director who was fired for lying to the FBI, you'll recall.
00:06:06.000He lost his pension because he was lying to the FBI about leaking to the media.
00:06:10.000And just in the last few weeks, he suggested that President Trump, it was quite possible that President Trump was a Russian asset, an active Russian asset.
00:08:16.000The Russians never could have figured out something like Facebook without President Trump, who has never used a computer, basically, guiding them around the interwebs.
00:08:26.000The Russians, in my opinion, and based on the intel and counter-intel people I've talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided.
00:08:53.000It was Trump who stole the election from her.
00:08:54.000It wasn't that she was a garbage candidate who lost because she ran a garbage campaign to the worst candidate in American history, Donald Trump.
00:09:02.000I mean, I know that we've created this magical world in which Trump was this world-beating candidate.
00:09:07.000President Trump had a tape released on him a month before the election in which he said that he was grabbing women by the genitals and then he beat Hillary Clinton.
00:09:16.000That's why she lost, not because of the Russkies, and not because President Trump was working with Vladimir Putin hand in glove.
00:09:21.000And then this has dripped down to legitimately every level of the Democratic Party.
00:09:27.000This myth-making has dripped down to every, it's become the conventional wisdom.
00:09:30.000Beto O'Rourke, yesterday, who will jump on any object he could possibly find, And somebody needs to start an account on Twitter called BetoJumpsOnObjects because that's pretty much what he does at this point.
00:09:40.000He just goes up to tables, he jumps on them, he goes up to small children, he jumps on them.
00:09:44.000Well yesterday he jumped on an object and then he suggests in front of a crowd that President Trump sought to collude with the Russians beyond the shadow of a doubt.
00:09:52.000He said this like legitimately about two hours before William Barr dropped his letter.
00:09:57.000We have a president who, in my opinion, beyond the shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government of foreign power to undermine and influence our elections.
00:10:11.000Okay, so he says all this, and every Democrat has basically echoed this.
00:10:16.000Maybe President Trump will be impeached on this.
00:10:18.000Maybe President Trump committed treason.
00:10:21.000The entire goal of this was to create a massive shadow over the first couple of years of President Trump's presidency at a very minimum.
00:10:29.000Time Magazine, you'll recall, ran a full cover in which it showed the White House shading into the Kremlin.
00:10:35.000So halfway across the Time Magazine cover, the White House suddenly becomes the Kremlin because the Kremlin is owning and operating the White House.
00:10:43.000The Kremlin owned and operated the media in the sense that the media did exactly what Vladimir Putin wanted.
00:10:49.000What Vladimir Putin wanted was to interfere in the election and then have the media Run with whatever narrative they felt was most conducive to their point of view and tear the country apart.
00:11:31.000Now, there were indicators that this report was not going to be a bombshell.
00:11:34.000There were indicators that there were members of the intelligence community who hated President Trump.
00:11:38.000There were indicators That nobody had seriously been indicted in the collusion scandal for collusion.
00:11:45.000They'd been indicted for lying to the FBI.
00:11:47.000But you didn't even have to leap to the conclusion that this was all some sort of giant setup to simply say, listen, we can wait for the evidence to come out.
00:11:54.000Bob Mueller has a record as being a good prosecutor and a decent man.
00:11:59.000And there's no reason to suspect that he is going to come out and destroy President Trump.
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00:13:16.000Okay, so as I say, it was not difficult to take a reasonable position on this particular issue. - No.
00:13:21.000Now, I understand President Trump was out there saying that Bob Mueller was corrupt, that the entire investigation was corrupt, that it was a witch hunt and all of the rest.
00:13:29.000You also didn't have to believe that the media, that their narrative, that President Trump was a Russian asset like Kevin Costner in No Way Out.
00:13:36.000You didn't have to believe that either.
00:14:36.000And if he throws it in the trash or quashes the Mueller investigation, then yes, impeachment should be on the table.
00:14:42.000Okay, so I said all of this stuff, and this was a reasonable position that the left could have taken, but instead they decided to get way out over their skis.
00:14:51.000You heard, you heard Bill Maher say that.
00:14:54.000And on Friday night, he said the same thing.
00:14:55.000I don't care what the Russian, I don't care what the report says, this is the way it's going to go.
00:14:59.000I don't care what the report says, in the end, What matters is that I believe my narrative, and my narrative suggests that President Trump is guilty.
00:15:15.000Because you should have access to all of the information before us.
00:15:18.000You shouldn't be reading the media headlines.
00:15:20.000You shouldn't be listening to any of the pundits.
00:15:23.000What you should be doing is listening to the actual words of the Bar Report.
00:15:26.000And I will stop, and I will explain what exactly the Bar Report says, so you know everything.
00:15:30.000Okay, we are still awaiting the full bar release of as much of the Mueller report as he can, but here is the letter that he sent to the heads of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate and in the House.
00:15:39.000Dear Chairman Graham, Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Ranking Member Collins, As a supplement to the notification provided on Friday, March 22, 2019, I am writing today to advise you of the principal conclusions reached by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III and to inform you about the status of my initial review of the report he has prepared.
00:15:58.000Section 1, the Special Counsel's Report.
00:16:01.000On Friday, the Special Counsel submitted to me a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions he has reached, as required by 28 CFR section 600.8c.
00:16:13.000This report is entitled, Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.
00:16:18.000Although my review is ongoing, I believe that it is in the public interest to describe the report and to summarize the principal conclusions reached by the Special Counsel and the results of his investigation.
00:16:28.000The report explains that the special counsel and his staff thoroughly investigated allegations that members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump and others associated with it conspired with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S.
00:16:41.000presidential election or sought to obstruct the related federal investigations.
00:16:46.000In the report, the special counsel noted that in completing his investigation, he employed 19 lawyers who were assisted by a team of approximately 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants, and other professional staff.
00:16:57.000The special counsel issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communications records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses.
00:17:36.000The special counsel obtained a number of indictments and convictions of individuals and entities in connection with this investigation, all of which have been publicly disclosed.
00:17:43.000During the course of his investigation, the special counsel also referred several matters to other offices for further action.
00:17:50.000The report does not recommend any further indictments, nor did the special counsel obtain any sealed indictments that have yet to be made public.
00:17:56.000Below, I summarize the principal conclusion set out in the special counsel's report.
00:18:19.000The report outlines the Russian effort to influence the election and documents crimes committed by persons associated with the Russian government in connection with those efforts.
00:18:27.000The report further explains that a primary consideration for the special counsel's investigation was whether any Americans, including individuals associated with the Trump campaign, joined the Russian conspiracies to influence the election, which would be a federal crime.
00:18:40.000The special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
00:19:05.000The media are suggesting that maybe Barr is shading the results here.
00:19:09.000Maybe there's something nefarious going on.
00:19:11.000That's one of my favorite arguments, is that Barr is somehow lying about what Mueller actually turned into him.
00:19:16.000I will remind you, I will remind you that Robert Mueller Forcefully came out and denounced a Buzzfeed story that lied about what the investigation was going to find.
00:19:30.000As the report states, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
00:19:40.000Now, the way that the left is reading this is they're saying that if the investigation did not establish it, then maybe there were some indicators that maybe they were trying or something like that.
00:19:52.000If Bob Mueller had been unsure about this conclusion, if he had thought that there was evidence that could have gone either way sufficient to sustain a prosecution, then Bob Mueller would have written that because that is what he wrote about obstruction of justice.
00:20:06.000That is not what he wrote when it came to Russian collusion.
00:20:09.000The special counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
00:20:14.000The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, the IRA, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election.
00:20:26.000As noted above, the special counsel did not find that any U.S.
00:20:29.000person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA in its efforts, although the special counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities.
00:20:42.000The second element involved in the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election.
00:20:49.000This is the hack on John Podesta and the DNC.
00:20:52.000The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks.
00:21:06.000Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing the election.
00:21:16.000But, as noted above, the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, Conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts despite multiple offers from Russian affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.
00:21:31.000That presumably would be a reference to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
00:21:38.000Special counsel also considered whether members of the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian election interference activities.
00:21:43.000The special counsel defined coordination as an agreement tacit or express between the Trump campaign and the Russian government on election interference.
00:21:51.000In other words, there was no secret deal.
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00:23:42.000The report from William Barr continues on obstruction of justice.
00:23:45.000The report's second part addresses a number of actions by the president, most of which have been the subject of public reporting, that the special counsel investigated as potentially raising obstruction of justice concerns.
00:23:55.000After making a thorough factual investigation into these matters, the special counsel considered whether to evaluate the conduct under department standards governing prosecution and declination decisions, but ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment.
00:24:08.000The special counsel therefore did not draw a conclusion one way or the other as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction.
00:24:14.000So the special counsel did not say we declined to prosecute or he should be prosecuted.
00:24:18.000Instead, he said, listen, I don't know.
00:24:24.000But it's hard to imagine there's an impeachment for obstruction when there's no underlying crime.
00:24:29.000What exactly would Trump have been trying to obstruct?
00:24:31.000Again, one of my contentions the entire time is that Bob Mueller was not obstructed by President Trump.
00:24:36.000James Comey admitted that the investigation was not obstructed by President Trump.
00:24:40.000Trump tweeting random crap out there does not constitute obstruction.
00:24:43.000We have covered this at length on the show.
00:24:46.000Instead, says Barr, for each of the relevant actions investigated, the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the special counsel views as difficult issues of law and fact concerning whether the president's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction.
00:25:01.000The special counsel states that, quote, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
00:25:07.000And this is the line that the media have been focusing in on.
00:25:19.000We all know what President Trump did here.
00:25:21.000President Trump put pressure publicly on the Mueller investigation, but behind closed doors, he didn't actually stop anything having to do with the Mueller investigation.
00:25:28.000Him fulminating on Twitter does not amount to obstruction.
00:25:31.000Him telling people internally that he'd like to fire Bob Mueller does not amount to obstruction.
00:25:36.000Him talking about how he'd like this investigation to end.
00:25:39.000Him talking about how he fired James Comey because he was ticked off with the whole thing.
00:26:04.000What Barr says is that the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime.
00:26:09.000It doesn't exonerate him because you can't exonerate in a case of sort of public view.
00:26:15.000What's hilarious about all of this is people saying, well, you know, the president shouldn't be exonerated because obstruction of justice, I mean, that even amounts to the president not wanting to talk to Mueller.
00:26:23.000No, that's called like a normal legal defense.
00:26:25.000As a lawyer, the first rule is shut your client up.
00:26:28.000I've been saying this about Rudy Giuliani since the very beginning.
00:26:33.000The special counsel's decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime.
00:26:44.000Now, people are saying, oh, well, William Barr stepped in and shut down the possibility of an investigation, shut down the possibility of a charge here.
00:27:03.000And if you want to shut this thing down, then it's on your head.
00:27:05.000Well, the same thing happened here for Mueller.
00:27:08.000Over the course of the investigation, the Special Counsel's Office engaged in discussions with certain department officials regarding many of the legal and factual matters at issue in the Special Counsel's obstruction investigation.
00:27:18.000After reviewing the Special Counsel's final report on these issues, consulting with department officials, including the Office of Legal Counsel, and applying the principles of federal prosecution that guide our charging decisions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.
00:27:38.000Now remember, this is Rosenstein going along with the sue.
00:27:41.000President Trump's been ripping on Rosenstein.
00:27:43.000So is the implication here that both Barr and Rosenstein are compromised?
00:27:49.000Our determination was made without regard to and is not based on the constitutional considerations that surround the indictment and criminal prosecution of a sitting president.
00:27:56.000In other words, it has nothing to do with he's the president, so he can't obstruct justice.
00:28:00.000This is just not obstruction of justice, is what Barr is saying.
00:28:03.000In making this determination, we noted that the special counsel recognized that the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference, so hard to obstruct an investigation into a crime that doesn't exist.
00:28:16.000And that while not determinative, the absence of such evidence bears upon the President's intent with respect to obstruction.
00:28:21.000Generally speaking, to obtain and sustain an obstruction conviction, the government would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person acting with corrupt intent—intent is an element of the crime and obstruction—engaged in obstructive conduct with a sufficient nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding.
00:28:38.000I've described it multiple times on the show.
00:28:40.000In cataloging the president's actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the department's principles of federal prosecution, guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction of justice offense.
00:29:00.000In other words, President Trump says a lot of crap.
00:29:05.000And because he says a lot of crap, we can't just say he's exonerated on this, but we also are not gonna charge him for saying a lot of crap, because saying a lot of crap, it ain't a crime.
00:29:14.000Okay, final section of this report from William Barr.
00:29:17.000The status of the department's review.
00:29:19.000The relevant regulations contemplate that the special counsel's report will be a confidential report to the attorney general.
00:29:24.000As I have previously stated, however, I am mindful of the public interest in this matter.
00:29:28.000For that reason, my goal and intent is to release as much of the special counsel's report As I can, consistent with applicable law, regulations, and departmental policies.
00:29:36.000Based on my discussions with the special counsel and my initial review, it is apparent that the report contains material that is or could be subject to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6E, which imposes restrictions on the use and disclosure of information relating to matters occurring before a grand jury.
00:29:51.000Rule 6e generally limits disclosure of certain grand jury information in a criminal investigation and prosecution.
00:29:56.000Disclosure of 6e material beyond the strict limits set forth in the rule is a crime in certain circumstances.
00:30:01.000In other words, I can't just PDF the whole report and put it online.
00:30:04.000That's a violation of the basic rules of criminal procedure.
00:30:07.000This restriction protects the integrity of grand jury proceedings and ensures that the unique and invaluable investigative powers of a grand jury are used strictly for their intended criminal justice function.
00:30:16.000Given these restrictions, the schedule for processing the report depends in part on how quickly the department can identify the 6E material that by law cannot be made public.
00:30:24.000I have requested the assistance of the special counsel in identifying all 6E information contained in the report as quickly as possible.
00:30:30.000In other words, he's going to ask Bob Mueller what he's allowed to reveal.
00:30:33.000So, again, this is not Barr trying to redact crap he can't redact.
00:30:37.000Separately, I also must identify any information that could impact other ongoing matters, including those that the special counsel has referred to other offices.
00:30:44.000As soon as that process is complete, I will be in a position to move forward expeditiously in determining what can be released in light of applicable law, regulations, and departmental policies as I observed in my initial notification.
00:30:55.000The special counsel regulations provide that the Attorney General may determine that public release of notifications to your respective committees would be in the public interest.
00:31:02.000I have so determined, and I will disclose this letter to the public after delivering it to you.
00:31:05.000Sincerely, William Barr, Attorney General.
00:31:07.000Okay, that's the entirety of the letter.
00:31:09.000So you have now heard it from beginning to end.
00:31:11.000So now you can make up your own mind on what the media are telling you about all of this.
00:31:15.000Suffice it to say, my belief is that the media are deliberately attempting to shade this report because they humiliated themselves.
00:31:26.000They took every egg in the chicken farm.
00:31:28.000They shattered it over their own head.
00:31:30.000The egg covers them to the extent that they are now up to their nose in egg.
00:31:35.000And yet the media are going to continue to pretend that this was all done on the up and up, that they handled this exactly right.
00:31:40.000We're going to get to President Trump's reaction to all of this in just a second.
00:31:42.000Plus, I do want to discuss the blowback that should take place, not just in the media, not just people who should sit down for a while and have a big think on what exactly they did here, but also there should be blowback in terms of, presumably, members of the government, if sufficient evidence can be shown that this was done with bad faith, that it wasn't just stupidity and confirmation bias.
00:32:02.000Now, my tendency is to believe That members of the government, like everyone else, is just dumb.
00:32:21.000But does it demonstrate once again that our intelligence agents are humans, made up of humans, and subject to the same flaws and failings as other humans?
00:32:32.000The same people who were complaining yesterday about Bob Mueller being a corrupt guy, I don't think you can trust them on these issues either.
00:32:38.000I mean, Bob Mueller did what he was supposed to do.
00:32:42.000The media, who said that it was a foregone conclusion that President Trump was going to jail, and the people who were saying for years that Bob Mueller was a corrupt person who was simply going to get President Trump using the powers of his office.
00:32:54.000Both of those things have proved not to be true.
00:32:56.000OK, we're going to get to President Trump's reaction to all this, which was indeed hysterically funny.
00:33:01.000We'll get to all that in just a second.
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00:35:51.000Complete and total exoneration, not totally correct simply because the Mueller report didn't say that they would exonerate on obstruction.
00:35:57.000But it is very difficult to exonerate on obstruction in a case where the president has publicly talked about how You know, you can't really exonerate on that basis, but you can say not enough material to charge, which is a difference in American law.
00:36:11.000So President Trump does all that, and then President Trump finally speaks to the press late yesterday afternoon, and he says, you know what?
00:37:05.000So if I accuse you of being a traitor for two years, and then it turns out that you are not a traitor, the headline's gonna be that you're mad about it?
00:37:10.000in healing or national unity really so if i accuse you of being a traitor for two years and then it turns out that you are not a traitor the headline is going to be that you're mad about it that's the headline really but president trump wasn't done He said, listen, this is an illegal takedown that failed.
00:37:30.000Now, here's where we get into the question of what happens next.
00:37:32.000There's been some talk on the right about we should go after and prosecute people who are members of the FBI.
00:37:37.000Well, then we have to look at the criminal standards the same way we did for President Trump.
00:37:41.000Was it a crime for the FBI to get out over its skis?
00:37:44.000Was it a crime for them to investigate without convicting people for not committing crimes?
00:37:50.000In other words, was an investigation that was founded on flimsy rumors Is that criminal in and of itself?
00:37:56.000Should people go to jail for that sort of thing?
00:37:58.000Or was it an investigation that was founded on rumors that had to be taken seriously, at least at the time, and then it sort of grew based on the stupidity and confirmation bias of people who didn't like President Trump?
00:38:10.000And if it's not criminal, then maybe this speaks to what kind of power the intelligence agencies should have overall, because they are staffed with human beings.
00:38:50.000This was an illegal takedown that failed. - Okay, so we will find out whether it was an illegal takedown that failed.
00:38:58.000Again, I think it's easy to jump the track here and suggest that what needs to happen now is an investigation into Fusion GPS, that maybe Fusion GPS should be prosecuted for leaking material to the FBI.
00:39:09.000It's the FBI's job to check out the material.
00:39:11.000If you make a police report, and that police report is based on evidence that is not put out there necessarily falsely, but is just rumor mongering, it's the police's job to differentiate between false and truthfulness.
00:39:24.000The people who obviously blew this are the members of the FBI and the members of the media.
00:39:30.000Yeah, again, I think OPPO research being turned over to the FBI and the DOJ.
00:39:35.000I'm not sure that's quite the same thing.
00:39:36.000But again, I'd like to investigate the legal issues and take a look at that before I make a final conclusion.
00:39:45.000They cannot believe they thought for sure this was Robert Mueller was the second coming.
00:39:50.000He was going to descend from heaven and he was going to tap President Trump on the shoulder and President Trump was going to disappear as though Thanos had snapped his fingers.
00:39:58.000Do you believe Robert Mueller when he writes that there was no collusion?
00:40:01.000And the Democrats were having none of it.
00:40:03.000Here was Sheila Jackson Lee saying that she simply doesn't accept the findings.
00:40:06.000So, I mean, that's important because obviously we need Sheila Jackson Lee to accept the findings because nothing.
00:40:11.000I mean, do you believe Robert Mueller when he writes that there was no collusion?
00:40:17.000I mean, do you accept that conclusion?
00:40:21.000I think what I accept is that Robert Mueller did a very thorough job and he has made the assessment that there was no collusion against.
00:41:26.000But I guess they're still going to run with this nonsense.
00:41:29.000We know, in addition to the fact that the Russians tried to meddle, they did meddle in our investigation, we know that his campaign manager, his deputy campaign manager, his lawyer, Papadopoulos, Stone, all of these people were having contact.
00:42:23.000But the media are not going to let go of this.
00:42:24.000The Democrats are not going to let go of this.
00:42:26.000They're going to suggest that now Mueller must have been compromised or maybe they would have drawn a different conclusion if they saw the underlying materials.
00:42:54.000This is the, well, it's the end of the report and the investigation by Mueller.
00:42:59.000But those of us who chair these committees have a responsibility to continue with our oversight because there's so much that needs to be, you know, taken a look at at this point.
00:43:12.000And so it's not the end of everything.
00:43:22.000You guys went over your skis and you lied to your base.
00:43:24.000You said your base that he was going to leave.
00:43:26.000He was going to be impeached based on the Russian collusion stuff.
00:43:29.000They were out there worshiping Mueller.
00:43:32.000And it turns out that Mueller did not give them what they wanted.
00:43:34.000And now Mueller will be thrown in the garbage can.
00:43:36.000So the leftist reaction again has been that maybe there's a cover up.
00:43:39.000My favorite, the best response came courtesy of James Comey.
00:43:42.000You'll recall That self-aggrandizing twerp, Comey, the former head of the FBI, who was just incompetent at his job in every possible way, and then President Trump fired him, and then he suggested without evidence that President Trump was somehow basically responsible for Russian collusion.
00:43:58.000He took a picture of himself, I kid you not, in the woods.
00:44:02.000He went to the woods and took a picture of himself, I guess on the moon of Endor, and just staring up into the trees with the caption, so many questions.
00:44:21.000Was it continued on the basis of new additional evidence that was corroborating?
00:44:25.000Or was this whole thing basically just a bunch of people who didn't like Trump who decided that they were going to continue an investigation into a nonsense charge from the very beginning?
00:44:34.000Is that really what was going on here?
00:44:59.000The fact that this investigation takes place within the Justice Department, which Donald Trump essentially controls, and that he got rid of the problem, Jeff Sessions, who the one decent thing that he did was just recuse himself.
00:45:28.000My favorite are the tweets from the people in Hollywood, who again, know nothing about politics, and so are more hysterical than anyone.
00:45:35.000These are the people in the Jim Jones media cult who are legitimately drinking the Kool-Aid.
00:45:40.000People like Bette Midler, who tweeted this out.
00:45:42.000Miller's report finds no evidence showing Trump's team collusion with Russia, but stops short of exonerating Trump on obstruction of justice.
00:45:48.000Knowing Trump, he probably tried to do exactly that.
00:45:50.000Two more years of chaos, race baiting, grifters, con artists, shame and fear.
00:46:17.000You got John Cryer from Two and a Half Men who is tweeting out, this is why Trump appointed Barack is to cover And then there's George Takei.
00:47:42.000That's all we were trying to do was expand minds.
00:47:43.000When we were on chyrons for two years about how Trump was lying about Russian collusion, and then Trump would say, no collusion, in parentheses, hasn't been proved.
00:47:54.000Now I'd like to see CNN run a chyron that says, CNN for two years ran with collusion.
00:48:02.000Man, they humiliated themselves and they deserve every bit of the blowback they are going to get from the American public and from other members of the media.
00:48:50.000And then it's about their romance in the middle of the Cold War.
00:48:53.000The underlying unease with the film, of course, is really not about their relationship.
00:48:58.000It's about the fact that whenever they're in the West, Their relationship seems to fall apart whenever they are in the East, meaning in Poland, when they're on the other side of the Berlin Wall, then their relationship seems to solidify, but that is simply because of the pressures on them.
00:49:33.000It has some things to say about the nature of communism, and it also has something to say about the nature of human relationships, and whether a relationship is really solid if it can't maintain itself when there aren't outside pressures on it.
00:49:44.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:50:43.000Not seeing the same sort of reaction when it comes to banning speech.
00:50:46.000Their chief censor has banned the 74-page manifesto written and released by the evil piece of crap who slaughtered 50 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.
00:50:55.000It means that anyone caught with the document on their computer could face up to 10 years in prison.
00:51:03.000Anyone caught sending it could face 14 years in prison.
00:51:09.000Now, I've encouraged people not to read the manifesto because I don't think that this guy's evil ideas should spread.
00:51:14.000And I've encouraged people not to use his name.
00:51:16.000Do I think somebody should go to jail for 10 years for having the document on their computer?
00:51:21.000I mean, hell, I've got the document on my computer because I had to read it to cover it for the show.
00:51:24.000I have the document on my computer because I had to actually read it so that I knew what exactly the media were saying about it and whether it was true or not.
00:51:32.00010 years in prison for having a document on your computer?
00:51:36.000How in the world is that a proper response to an act of evil?
00:51:57.000So, I would just like to point out that our moral betters in Hollywood are not actually our moral betters.
00:52:02.000A lot of them are kind of garbage people.
00:52:04.000One of these garbage people is Barbra Streisand.
00:52:07.000So, Barbra Streisand was talking with a British newspaper, The Times of London, and she was asked about Wade Robeson and James Safechuck, who are the two main subjects of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland about Michael Jackson allegedly molesting children.
00:52:23.000She said, quote, that they were thrilled to be there as children, and whatever happened to them, quote-unquote, didn't kill them.
00:52:29.000She said she believes the victim's claims, but felt bad for both them and Jackson, adding, quote, that Jackson's sexual needs were his sexual needs, and that the blame should lie with the boys' parents.
00:52:39.000Now, I do not disagree that the boys' parents carry a hell of a lot of blame, but what the actual... Really?
00:53:00.000You start to just... You start to basically slough off actual child molestation.
00:53:07.000She said, you can say molested, but those children, as you heard, they were thrilled to be there.
00:53:11.000They both married, they both have children, so it didn't kill them.
00:53:15.000She said, I feel bad for the children, I feel bad for him, I guess, I blame the parents who would allow their children to sleep with him.
00:53:21.000Why would Michael need those little children dressed like him and in the shoes and in the dancing and the hats?
00:53:25.000Man, how she continues to have a job after that.
00:53:28.000Now, as I've said, I'm not in favor of people losing their jobs for old things they say, old things that they say, but if you're buying a Barbra Streisand album after she says something like that, I gotta say, I'm not sure what's going through your head.
00:53:56.000spoke at a CARE event, an event sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror trial.
00:54:03.000And at this event, again sponsored by a group that has connections to terrorism, she suggested that she didn't care about the pro-Israel protesters outside.
00:54:13.000What they really had to say is stop being an anti-Semite.
00:54:15.000Of course she doesn't care what they have to say because she's an anti-Semite.
00:54:18.000I know, I know many of them drove miles to get here.
00:54:25.000Spent a lot of energy and resources and money to purchase the signs that they have.
00:54:32.000But I don't think any of them realize that people like myself and many of the people in this room can care less about what they have to say.