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<\/p>\nRUSH: The first thing I want to play for you is Barr. We\u2019re gonna go back (this is sound bite 22) to May 1. This is a big deal, folks. This is the evidence that Mueller was just lying repeatedly today when he claimed that the only reason they didn\u2019t come to a decision on obstructing justice, charging Trump with obstruction was the guidelines from the Office of Legal Counsel which say you cannot indict a sitting president. He said, “That\u2019s why we didn\u2019t do it.” Democrats just drilled down on that and drilled down on that. But it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the attorney general, William Barr, from May 1. This is a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. He\u2019s under oath during Senate committee testimony.<\/p>\n
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BARR: Mueller stated three times to us in that meeting in response to our questioning that he emphatically was not saying that but for the OLC opinion, he would have found obstruction. He said that in the future the facts of a case against a president might be such that a special counsel would recommend abandoning the OLC opinion, but this is not such a case.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I shouldn\u2019t… I feel the need to translate this even though I probably don\u2019t have to. He is saying here that Bob Mueller told him three times that the regulations from the Office of Legal Counsel had no determination whatsoever in the decision not to charge the president with obstruction. And, yet all day today, Mueller has insisted that\u2019s the only reason he didn\u2019t. He\u2019s fallen back on this. He\u2019s relied on it. It\u2019s almost like a crutch and a backstop. You know, Democrats keep zeroing in, pounding in.<\/p>\n
“The president obstructed! The president wanted you fired! The president asked people to fire you! The president told them not to talk to you,” blah, blah, blah. “Well, uh, uh, why didn\u2019t you charge obstruction? Why did you not exonerate the president?” “Well, the office of guidelines say I can\u2019t indict a sitting president.” William Barr, numerous times (this is just recently on May 1) was saying that Mueller told him the exact opposite, that the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n
Grab sound bite number 19. I\u2019ve got sound bites for points that I made in the first hour of the program. This is the incredulous session where Mueller refuses to answer questions about whether or not Russian meddling altered any votes or changed the outcome of any election. It\u2019s Greg Steube, who from Florida — Republican, Florida — asking about Russian meddling in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
STEUBE: Given your 22 months of investigation — tens of millions of dollars spent and millions of documents reviewed — did you obtain any evidence at all that any American voter changed their vote as a result of Russia\u2019s election interference?<\/p>\n
MUELLER: I\u2019m not gonna speak to that.<\/p>\n
STEUBE: You can\u2019t speak to that?<\/p>\n
MUELLER: (muttering)<\/p>\n
STEUBE: After 22 months of investigation, there\u2019s not any evidence in that document before us that any voter changed their vote because of their interference, and I\u2019m asking you based on all of the documents that you reviewed —<\/p>\n
MUELLER: That was… That was outside our purview!<\/p>\n
STEUBE: Russian meddling was outside your purview?<\/p>\n
MUELLER: (sputtering) But the impact of that meddling was undertaken by other, uhhh, agencies.<\/p>\n