Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has been released. The report details the results of the investigation and details the number of indictments and criminal charges brought against individuals and entities related to the alleged Russian interference.
00:10:00.500The special counsel did not find that any U.S. person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA in its efforts.
00:10:13.020Although the special counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities.
00:10:23.800The second element involved in the Russian government's effort to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election.
00:10:34.360The special counsel found the Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained e-mails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations.
00:10:53.040They also publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, such as WikiLeaks.
00:10:59.620Based on these activities, the special counsel has brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing an election.
00:11:14.540But 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.
00:11:35.000This is really critical because this goes to why they had they did not pursue a conspiracy or I'm sorry, a a warrant or an indictment of obstruction of justice.
00:11:50.720They're saying that they made several attempts and they were turned down by the Trump campaign.
00:11:57.800Every time, every time they would make the attempt, the Trump campaign may take that meeting, but it was exactly as Trump said who wouldn't take that meeting, but we never did anything on it.
00:12:14.580By the way, I'm reading this whole thing because we just spent two years of our life, two years of our country's precious time arguing about this.
00:12:27.440How many millions of dollars have we spent?
00:16:09.100Now, this is really important because this is the this is the opening for the Democrats.
00:16:16.520The report's second part addresses a number of actions by the president, most of which have been subject to public reporting that the special counsel investigated as potentially raising obstruction of justice concerns.
00:16:30.420After 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 prosecuted prosecutorial judgment.
00:16:51.780The special counsel, therefore, did not draw a conclusion one way or another as to whether the examined contact conduct constituted obstruction.
00:17:01.940So, in other words, Mueller, remember, press, you've told us for two years how this guy is the paragon of virtue.
00:18:19.880That is entirely reasonable and fair, but not for the Democrats.
00:18:26.680The special counsel, therefore, did not draw a conclusion.
00:18:30.720Instead, for each of the relevant actions investigated, the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved.
00:18:37.960But the special counsel views as a difficult issue of law and facts concerning whether president's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction.
00:18:47.420The special counsel states that while the report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
00:18:55.320Now, this is in the obstruction part that does exonerate with collusion.
00:19:01.540So when the president says there was no conclusion, a 100 percent exoneration.
00:19:07.600If you look at just the first part on collusion, which he was talking about when he said that he is accurate for him to say the report has come out and it's 100 percent exoneration, he is not telling the truth.
00:19:26.020And that is the way the Democrats want you to look at that.
00:19:29.140But he specifically in his statement said no collusion, 100 percent exoneration, and he is accurate under under collusion, but not obstruction.
00:19:46.520The special counsel's decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusion leaves it to the attorney general to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime.
00:19:59.140Over the course of the investigation, the special counsel's office engaged in discussions with certain department officials regarding many of the legal and factual manners at issue in the special counsel's obstruction investigation.
00:20:11.000After reviewing the special counsel's final report on those issues, consulting with department officials, including the office of legal counsel and applying the principles of federal prosecution that guide our charging decisions.
00:20:23.140The deputy deputy deputy deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.
00:20:39.140Our 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.
00:20:51.700So they're saying, look, if there was a crime and we felt that it rose to the level that we could prosecute, we would do it.
00:21:00.440We didn't even take into consideration whether or not, you know, he's the president.
00:21:04.680We just looked at the bar that we set for everybody making this determination.
00:21:10.320We know that the special counsel recognized that the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in an underlying crime related to the Russian election interference and that while not determinative, the absence of such evidence bears upon the president's intent with respect to obstruction.
00:21:29.440Generally speaking, generally 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 engaged in in obstructive conduct with sufficient nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding in cataloging.
00:21:49.540In the president's actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that in our judgment constitute obstructive conduct.
00:24:02.200And the reason why I say it's the most important is because this is what applies to us beginning today, because you already have the Democrats coming out and saying, you got to release the whole thing.
00:24:18.200Have you even read the letter from the attorney general?
00:24:21.460He says, as I have previously stated, I am mindful of the public interest in this matter.
00:24:28.040And for 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.
00:24:41.900Based 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,
00:24:56.080which imposes restrictions on the use and disclosure of information relating to, quote, matters occurring before a grand jury, end quote.
00:25:06.360Rule six, he generally limits disclosure of certain grand jury information in a criminal investigation and prosecution.
00:25:13.180Disclosure of disclosure of 6E material beyond the strict limits set forth in the rule is a crime in certain circumstances.
00:25:23.460This restriction protects the integrity of a grand jury proceeding and ensures that the unique and invaluable investigative powers of a grand jury are used strictly for their intended criminal justice function.
00:25:57.960So it is critical if you want to be able to have investigations going forward that you don't release all of the stuff that was discussed in a grand jury because it was raw.
00:26:10.540Given 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.
00:26:24.220I have requested the assistance of the special counsel in in identifying all 6E information contained in the report as quickly as possible.
00:26:34.700Separately, I must also identify any information that could impact other ongoing matters, including those that the special counsel has referred to other offices.
00:26:45.380As soon as that process is complete, I will be in a position to move forward in determining what can be released in light of applicable law, regulations and departmental policies.
00:26:57.720This is a totally reasonable response and what you would expect from the federal government.
00:27:03.860And the response from the Democrats so far today has been, OK, yeah, he's not guilty on that, but he's guilty of something.
00:27:21.860Stu said, today is the day that you want to join the blaze because you're going to get all of the biggest voices in conservative media talking about this.
00:30:17.820What's amazing to me is they didn't, they wouldn't listen.
00:30:22.520I mean, you know, the audio you just played of Obama saying, hey, listen, I had more latitude.
00:30:26.580And would you transmit that to Vladimir for me?
00:30:30.860They weren't interested in even talking about it, let alone investigate.
00:30:35.580They weren't even interested in talking about it.
00:30:38.100Had this come back and Mueller had found evidence of collusion, I would have seriously looked at it, wanted to know the facts, wouldn't have taken it from the media, want to know the facts.
00:30:49.760And I would have supported that, assuming that it was real information.
00:32:13.980Like he actually looked at what the Russians did and got incredibly valuable information about their game plan, the players involved, how they did these things.
00:34:37.820Flynn just gets a pardon from the president on this.
00:34:40.520But, you know, the other people, people like Manafort, who were doing things years and years and years ago that got caught for all sorts of stuff.
00:35:14.400I mean, look, they did, I think it was a half dozen Trump associates got indicted, all of them, though, for either things completely unrelated or lying to investigators.
00:35:25.140Good lesson to not lie to investigators here in the middle of this.
00:35:29.480Should have learned that with the claimant investigations.
00:45:55.660No, and you can understand their motivation.
00:45:57.940If they can get 50,000 pages, they certainly will be able to mine out a couple of things that are at least politically embarrassing to the president in some way.
00:46:08.080There's going to be something in there that they can use to their advantage, which is why they want to see the whole thing.
00:46:12.580So I went on the air when I was at Fox.
00:46:15.140I went on the air and I said, President Obama is a liar.
00:46:20.080Do you remember during the the State of the Union where he was saying, you know, you're not you're the cost of your health care is going to go down and we're not going to use this for any illegals.
00:47:17.920I think people want to know the truth and people are tired of hearing I misspoke when the evidence points to they know we have the evidence that he knew this would not work.
00:47:32.460It was a Trojan horse to bring us to single payer health care, which is where we're what they're arguing about now.
00:47:39.440We knew that because we had audio tape of him saying.
00:47:42.740And so I continued to say he was a liar.
00:48:18.100The American people do not want to hear that their president was colluding with a foreign government that makes him a foreign agent and an enemy of the American people.
00:49:25.860Now, for you to continue down this road, which the Democrats are, they are bleeding on the table and they will drain themselves of all the blood.
00:49:36.320And quite honestly, I'm kind of thrilled about it.
00:49:39.360But the American people and good Democrats will not want to hear any more about him colluding because it's now been proven.
00:49:50.820And if you're just going to continue to do this, it's best just to wrap it up and then go find something else if that's what you want to do.
00:49:58.120And you realize the moment, the heat of the moment allows such odd decisions to be made.
00:50:05.080For example, the left has said this entire time, assuming that Trump had done something illegal and something horrible, they went the entire time building up the credibility of Bob Mueller.
00:50:16.180Now, alternatively, I think on the other side of this, you know, Trump and the and on the people on the right spent the entire time degrading the credibility of Bob Mueller.
00:50:27.160So it's like neither of those was a good decision.
00:50:30.960I think from the from the Democrats position now they have to completely go back on themselves and say, well, what we meant to say was he totally did not.
00:50:41.600Now, because their first answer is just, well, we're sure there's something in there that he found, but, you know, that's not in the summary.
00:50:47.680So they're going to go after Barr first.
00:50:49.380But if they get a lot more material from Mueller and they don't get the crimes that they want, they're going to look ridiculous because they're going to have to start turning on Mueller.
00:50:57.000And I think the same thing can be said about the right.
00:50:59.240I mean, yes, there's no reason to there was no reason, especially when obviously Donald Trump had exclusive information in this.
00:51:05.800Right. He had information that no one else had, which is he didn't actually do it.
00:51:09.220Right. Like he knew the whole time that he didn't do it.
00:51:11.600So he knew the whole time that there was a really good chance that they were going to find nothing was going on.
00:51:16.960So, I mean, he was protecting, I think, himself and I think people around him were protecting themselves in case something came out that they thought was wrong, that they would be able to say, well, this guy's a hack.
00:51:28.900But, you know, like, well, I don't think that was ever true.
00:51:32.040And now that he's come out and exonerated the president completely when it comes to collusion, you know, the Republicans are all over the place on record saying Mueller was in the middle of a witch hunt, which is just, you know, I don't think that that's a fair analysis of what he was doing.
00:51:45.800And again, like you go back to Salem, they weren't like, oh, we couldn't find any witches today.
00:51:56.600So the whole thing, though, Stu, is both sides were wrong for saying that it was a witch hunt because you had to know what Mueller was doing.
00:52:23.340And that's why they are an incredible loser on this.
00:52:27.100Instead of waiting for the facts, they wanted it to be true so badly that they put people like John Brennan on former CIA.
00:52:35.280You want to talk about somebody who has no credibility?
00:52:37.360He was on the air saying this guy is a traitor, that the president is is committed treason against the United States and the media went with it.
00:52:48.040The media should be asking today, John Brennan, where are you here?
00:52:54.960They hyped and looked at everyone who could possibly say something bad about the president, and they ridiculed anybody who said anything good.
00:53:04.720Now, let me ask you, and I hope you can answer this easily.
00:53:12.020We are on the air today saying the president was cleared.
00:53:17.360Now, it is still open on interpretation, and I think it's a valuable exercise, but I happen to agree with the attorney general on this, that he was that he did not engage in obstruction of justice.
00:54:49.840I hope you would say that we would be saying, looks like it's going to be impeachment, and let's wait for all of the facts to come out, but this doesn't look good.
00:54:59.360Do you have that from your media source today?
00:55:03.600Ask yourself about every media source, left and right.
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00:57:01.580We have Eric Bolling coming up in just a few minutes.
00:57:04.060This is the day that you really want the blaze because you have all of the conservative voices all on the blaze, and you can pick and choose and go right to their monologues on what they're talking about with the investigation and their look at it.
00:57:20.500We have John Miller, who is in the White House today.
00:57:24.220That's going to be a fascinating show to hear him talk about how the reporters in the White House are talking about this.
00:57:40.060I mean, even if you, like, don't like Donald Trump, the idea that the president of the United States is not colluding with Russia should be good welcome news to every American.
00:57:46.720Unless you think that the whole system was corrupt, but you believe in Bob Mueller.
00:57:52.660So if you believed in him, you should be happy saying, okay, good.
00:57:56.680I don't like the president, but at least he's not a traitor.
00:58:05.280There'll be a report that comes out, hey, it's not as cataclysmic as we thought, and all the people who tell you all the time to worry about global warming get disappointed and angry about it.
01:00:56.860I got to make sure that that we are doing everything possible to make sure our trade practices and and jobs can happen here and that more factories don't close.
01:01:08.840Let's just wonder if we weren't arguing about this and we would have been focused on making our economy and our country great with the GM plant in Ohio have closed.
01:01:25.000I don't know, but I'm tired of wasting time.
01:01:30.540I'm tired of watching the news and hear them talk about stuff that doesn't matter, especially now.
01:01:38.800I think he has the opportunity today to make the case just like Bill Clinton did, except Bill Clinton was lying.
01:01:52.540I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky, and I've got to get back to the work of the American people.
01:02:04.060He needs that line, except this time, unlike Clinton, the facts are out.
01:02:13.080Was Clinton obstructing justice when he did that?
01:02:16.340Sure seems like it because he was trying to cover up a crime.
01:02:23.180Now, it was a crime of passion, a crime with his wife, but he was lying about it.
01:02:30.480This president was not lying about Russia.
01:02:36.800I've been 100% vindicated and and cleared of the charge of any kind of collusion with Russia.
01:02:47.780Stop it right now, because we've got massive problems and the media may not have noticed it because they've been looking at Bob Mueller for the last two years.
01:02:58.080It's time to look at the American people, and it's time to do their work and their agenda, and it's not this and then walk away.
01:03:09.140That would be the most effective thing he could do, and that would excite the the Reagan Democrats, the people who voted for him that have not voted for a Republican in a very long time.
01:03:59.280The answer is, let's have another open house.
01:04:02.020No, let's not have another open house.
01:04:04.080How about how about you sell my house, especially in a good market?
01:04:08.480Selling or buying a home is a very complex price process, and you have to know you have to you have to know who to get the approval for the mortgage from.
01:04:18.160You have to know all of the other agents that are involved.
01:05:46.300Then I want to go to Nadler on investigations and Schiff on the full release because there's a lot that has been said that needs to be corrected by those people.
01:06:11.000My takeaway is there's a very real prospect that he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time.
01:06:18.800Do you agree with Congressman Adam Schiff, who's going to be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, that President Trump could be indicted and possibly face jail time after he leaves office?
01:07:49.640So, you know, if you want to be generous, you can say that some people did end up in jail, but not for what they were looking for, for other things that had nothing to do with Donald Trump.
01:09:13.020We have to look for obstructions of justice.
01:09:14.980We have to look for corruption in the exercise of power, which may not be crimes.
01:09:20.520They may be, but they may not be crimes.
01:09:22.080And we have a much broader mandate, and we have to exercise that mandate to protect the integrity of government and to protect the integrity of liberty in the country.
01:11:00.480And if he doesn't, he should be impeached for being a moron.
01:11:04.560He knows, at least the attorney general told him yesterday, based on my discussions with special counsel in my initial review,
01:11:14.060it is apparent that the report contains material that is or could be subject to federal rule of criminal procedure 6E,
01:11:20.960which imposes restrictions on the use and disclosure of information relating to the matters occurring before a grand jury.
01:11:28.060Rule 6 generally limits disclosure to certain grand jury information in criminal investigation and prosecution.
01:11:35.920Disclosure of 6E material beyond the strict limits set forth in the rule is a crime.
01:11:42.920The restriction protects the integrity of the 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.
01:11:53.920So you are not allowed to take things from the grand jury that was specifically meant for this particular criminal investigation and then go farm it out to everybody so they can pursue their own thing.
01:12:15.740And if you violate that, you can never get people to talk in a grand jury.
01:12:21.940You will never get you will not have justice because just get them into a grand jury.
01:12:28.360They'll talk and we'll find something and we'll just use it.
01:12:31.320If we don't get them on that, we'll get them on something else.
01:12:34.040This is Schiff saying the president is guilty, maybe not of this, but he's guilty of something and we all know it.
01:12:42.060Isn't this a great argument to to and we I think we did this and I think this audience did this.
01:12:46.920But to focus on things that are actually important, I mean, we said over and over and over again, there's no need to follow every twist and turn of reporting on this story.
01:12:58.720It's all going to come out and you're going to be able to look at it and judge it for yourself.
01:13:02.960There's no reason to get all fired up about it on a daily basis.
01:13:06.980Oh, this one looks really bad for the president.
01:13:08.340This one looks really good for the president.
01:13:09.540I mean, for the people who did that is wasn't that a waste of time now that this has come out and you've seen the results and there was no collusion.
01:13:18.180If you were one of the people out there who were just not getting yourself worked up about this on a daily basis, you win.
01:13:35.820Let the guy do his job when he releases it will look at the information and judge it.
01:13:40.320Instead, the media, I would say, you know, certainly politicians as well, but the media really does a bad job here because they made every little thing.
01:13:49.080This is the time the noose is tightening on the president, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, every single day.
01:14:04.500And if you're one of the people and this is hard to do.
01:14:07.680I know I have a hard time doing it sometimes because we care about these things so much.
01:14:11.660But if you're able to put them in perspective and care about things that are actually important and not get lost in this daily back and forth of nonsensical politics and just focus on facts, your life is a lot better.
01:14:26.180You know, I understand that these guys got to go back and forth and they got to put their position out there and they're going to some people are going to get vilified and some people are going to get praised.
01:14:33.900And we're all going to act like the most urgent thing happening every five minutes.
01:14:38.000But, you know, there's a reason we used to make fun of CNN for constantly putting up the breaking news banner.
01:18:55.020They're ready to go, and they're ready to just basically tell the world this has been what we've been saying for the better part of two years.
01:19:27.440It was, since the New York Times and the Washington Post each received a Pulitzer Prize for their reportage on Trump and Russian collusion,
01:19:36.440and now we know that was all fake news, do I get nominated as a potential Pulitzer Prize winner for taking the other side of that argument for the last two years?
01:19:47.120And so I just find it very, very interesting.
01:19:49.680I watch a lot of cable, and the breathless change in the tone.
01:19:55.200Like, all of a sudden, Mueller, who was the best investigator the world had ever seen, is now, well, he left a lot of holes.
01:20:48.400I just find it very odd that the day after the report is released that the leftists start saying, oh, boy, can you believe this wall-to-wall coverage on this thing?
01:20:59.380When, meanwhile, for the last two years, that's what they had every single hour on MSNBC and CNN had led with, you know, literally almost every single hour of the last two years all day long on each of the networks with something Trump and Russian collusion-related.
01:21:14.920And now they're saying, well, you know—
01:21:17.660Well, they've trained their audience, you know, like a Pavlov dog.
01:21:55.440The day they announced that they were going to go ahead and hire Mueller to come on, I said, this is going to be a massive waste of time and money, and here we are two years later.
01:22:59.360They're going to find the right real estate agent, the one that has the best record in your area, that knows how to sell your house, or how, if you're moving into a new area, how to help you find the right house.
01:23:12.040Now, these are people that listen to the program.
01:23:16.960And so they have the same sensibilities that you do.
01:23:19.360So, you know, when you're looking for a, you know, school, they're not the ones that, you know, they'll say, oh, no, this is a great school district.
01:23:26.480And you find out that it's, you know, the little red schoolhouse.
01:25:42.380My niece just worked with American finance to buy her first home and is now paying the bank for her own home as opposed to paying rent for some landlord.
01:25:55.780Rent, by the way, is going to go up higher and higher, I think, in the next couple of years.
01:26:50.320It has never been more clear than it is right now how you can be hearing politicians talk about ending the life of a child after they're born.
01:27:02.660And the country doesn't seem to really react like, oh, my gosh, those are that's a killer is beyond me.
01:27:11.960And if we don't stand together and turn back to God and turn for that one basic principle of life, I think we're toast.
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01:28:02.240I'm going to do premiere opening screenings of this movie in Utah.
01:28:08.700It is rated R, but as you'll find out, there's no reason for it to be rated R except for political reasons.
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