Well, what it tells me is that the lies were about connections between the Trump campaign and the Russians, or between Manafort and Kilimnik and the Russians, which were not involved in the initial charges.

All of these contacts apparently are instigated misleading or untruthful comments, giving rise to the clear impression they lied because they thought maybe they were breaking the law.

Never standard operating procedure for a nominee to talk about a pending investigation. So, I'm a bit surprised that he is talking about the outlines and plans as the CNN report suggested.

Nor should it be acceptable to the American people. In fact, a recent poll -- a couple polls showed that more than 80 percent of the American people think that Barr -- the Mueller report should be released in full by Barr, and in fact, 79…

There's the distinct possibility, Anderson, that there will be no indictment here because William Barr has concluded a sitting president cannot be indicted. So, if there's no indictment and no findings and evidence, what we have in effect…

If everything's on the up-and-up, why not just tell the truth?

And the question is, why do you lie about it? Was it just that he was a congenital liar or because he was engaged in a cover-up that potentially was encouraged by others involved whether it was Roger Stone or others who are Trump…

The American people paid for this investigation and for the report. They deserve to know what's in it.

The question for the country and for William Barr, the attorney general is will he do the president's bidding, or will he put the American people first.

What is he hiding? What is Whitaker hiding? What is he seeking to conceal?

I think he seems to be equally concerned. He certainly has called both a witch hunt, and he has denounced both. But both are absolutely necessary, and particularly the claim about harassment. Congress is simply doing its job.

No doubt he'll resist the request or even the subpoena for that kind of material, but he has no real defense or recourse under the law because, clearly, the chairman of the committee has the power to obtain it from the Internal Revenue…

For him to resist would be as one constitutional scholar has said anti-constitutional, because the Congress, remember, is a source for oversight.

I think generally, executive privilege has been overused, excessively abused by witnesses.

Every time he comments or anyone else in the administration comments in a disparaging way about the investigation they undermine its credibility.

The American public paid for this report. They deserve to know what it found.

That kind of comment would be bizarre from the most inexperienced junior prosecutor and from the attorney general of the United States.

There is no way that Roger Stone received anything less than complete due process here.

The complete report, unabridged, uncensored, unsilenced.

Hardly. It is really the result of an extensive and expansive investigation.

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Let me just finish by citing Adrian Pellot, one of those workers whom I met on Monday. Adrian is a behavior detection officer. He has done it for more than a decade. He is one of those workers going without pay. I will just leave you with…

Well, I think one view is that he gave a signal in that memo that he wrote that the president cannot be charged or perhaps even accountable for crimes like obstruction of justice because of the view that the president has control over the…