Mueller Makes a Decision by 'Not Making a Decision'
The long-awaited Mueller report is finally here, and the AG says it found no collusion but didn't conclude whether the president had obstructed justice. Eugene Scott, Washington Post reporter covering identity politics and Rosalind Helderman, Washington Post political enterprise and investigations reporter, talk all about what we know, what we don't and what it means for Congressional Democrats.
"Collusion, obstruction of justice were never central points for the President’s unfitness to the Democratic base," says @Eugene_Scott. "All concerns with Russia were secondary and didn't become clear to most people until well after the election and the President’s inauguration."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 25, 2019
"From the data we’ve seen at @washingtonpost, in our polling, views about Trump are pretty baked in, people generally are not changing their minds based on any new revelations or policy ideas and I don’t think this [Mueller] report will change that either," says @Eugene_Scott.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 25, 2019
Mueller "ultimately did not make a traditional prosecutorial decision on the issue, but instead had this line about he had found that the President did not commit a crime but he did not exonerate him," says @PostRoz. "It was an unusual and surprising move."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 25, 2019
Mueller "failing to come to a core conclusion on that very central question that he’s been looking at, leaves it open to his political bosses Rod Rosenstein and William Barr who already weighed in on what they believe, and now to the political process of Congress," says @PostRoz.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 25, 2019
Mueller "secured guilty pleas from Trump’s campaign manager... his foreign policy adviser, his national security adviser, his longtime lawyer," says @Eugene_Scott. "The idea there was nothing concerning happening here is just not supported by the facts, even those from Mueller."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 25, 2019
