MSNBC’s Chris Matthews livid over Mueller report: ‘How could they let Trump off the hook?’
MSNBC host Chris Matthews expressed outrage on Friday upon hearing reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had completed his Russia investigation and submitted it to the attorney general -- with further indictments not expected.
Matthews began his show by summarizing the breaking news, but stressed that Mueller handed his report to the Department of Justice “without ever directly interviewing the president of the United States.”
“That means no charges against the president, his children or his associates after all those meetings with the Russians,” a visibly upset Matthews told his viewers.
The liberal cable news host opened the discussion to the panel, telling them his “biggest question” was “How can the president be pointed to as leading collusion with Russia, aiding a Russian conspiracy to interfere with our elections if none of his henchmen, none of his children, none of his associates have been indicted?”
NBC News national security reporter Ken Dilanian responded by telling Matthews that Trump couldn’t be indicted “in a criminal sense” since Mueller’s office “didn’t have it,” adding that the president “couldn’t conspire with himself.”
“Maybe he missed the boat here,” Matthews responded. “Because we know about the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, we know about the meeting at the cigar bar with Kilimnik. My God, we know about all of those meetings with Kislyak at the Republican convention in Cleveland. All these dots we’re now to believe don’t connect.”
“Well, that’s the conclusion in front of us,” Dilanian told Matthews. “All of that stuff was suggestive, it didn’t prove anything.”
“Why was there never an interrogation of this president?” Matthews shot back. “We were told for weeks by experts, ‘You cannot deal with an obstruction-of-justice charge or investigation without getting the motive… How could they let Trump off the hook?... He will not be charged with obstruction of justice or collusion without having to sit down with the Special Counsel Mueller and answer his damn questions. How could that happen?”
““That means no charges against the president, his children or his associates after all those meetings with the Russians,” a visibly upset Matthews told his viewers.
The liberal cable news host opened the discussion to the panel, telling them his “biggest question” was “How can the president be pointed to as leading collusion with Russia, aiding a Russian conspiracy to interfere with our elections if none of his henchmen, none of his children, none of his associates have been indicted?”
NBC News national security reporter Ken Dilanian responded by telling Matthews that Trump couldn’t be indicted “in a criminal sense” since Mueller’s office “didn’t have it,” adding that the president “couldn’t conspire with himself.”
“Maybe he missed the boat here,” Matthews responded. “Because we know about the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, we know about the meeting at the cigar bar with Kilimnik. My God, we know about all of those meetings with Kislyak at the Republican convention in Cleveland. All these dots we’re now to believe don’t connect.”
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“Well, that’s the conclusion in front of us,” Dilanian told Matthews. “All of that stuff was suggestive, it didn’t prove anything.””
Looks like the witch hunt failed to manufacture any collusion. Shocking. I expect the liberal tears to be invigorating.
I am ready to be invigorated by their whiny 😫 tears 😭. Let the showers commence. Poor Chris Matthews!
Well, maybe - just maybe - you don't actually know all the stuff you think you know. Every night for two years, these guys have run the thinnest stories. Some unnamed source talked to a guy who believes X and Y might be true because . . . feelings. That's not journalism or investigation. It's gossip. And when they run a story like that on Monday, they run a different one on Tuesday, and cite the Monday story/gossip-fest as corroboration.
These "journalists" have spent two years raising their eyebrows, nodding, harrumphing, and saying this suggests that. None of it means anything and now they're monumentally butthurt that the independent investigation they demanded and then lionized failed to produce the results they predicted were inevitable. We may never see a brighter example of leftist bias in the media.
You are absolutely right. The left bias of the msm is overwhelming and obvious to all objective observers.
I wonder if Matthews felt that tingle running up his leg at this news?
fabricating evidence to take down a presidential candidate / sitting president.
those people will not be allowed to just walk away from that.
welcome to the show...
What does Chris Matthews Know, and when did he know it ?
I think The Democrats should investigate.
In the article's video, Matthews gave new meaning to "spitting mad". Poor thing was probably hoping to get a journalism award for repeatedly reporting on fake news "collusion". Ha ha ha!
https://youtu.be/IkbRvpIMwoM
The Dems are spinning this bad news so hard I need to take Dramamine just to not get dizzy.
Maybe we could get them some toy tops to play with as they chomp on their pacifiers...
I've been flipping between MSNBC and CNN. Their guests moved the goal posts again and want to investigate Mueller, because they're not sure he'll tell the truth. Weren't they sure that he was trustworthy a few months ago?
Anyone tired of winning, yet?
The Trump is not 'off the hook.'
Mueller has set the hook. The truth and the downfall of the Trump fast approaches.
Talk about spinning rather than winning...
The delusion persists with some! Lol!
Trump is very lucky. The Special Council only investigated Russia matters, of which we are yet to learn.
Clinton, investigated by Starr, was ordered by the court to have his penis photographed and entered into evidence. Now that is a proctology of an investigation.
Mueller followed the rules made for The Special Council. Starr had no rules. What would it be like to have the Trump investigated by someone without any parameters such as Clinton was? I would really like to know. The Stormy thing and all. You know. Imagine, "Stormy said your 'pecker' had this identifying mark." The court orders you to submit for photographic evidence of your penis Mr. President.
The rules were changed after democrats agreed to change them when Clinton was subjected to what they’d done to Reagan and Bush 41.
No. You are wrong.
They have to keep moving the goalposts, don't they? Lol.
No, I’m not.
Yep, they sure do!
See below.....
watching msnbc last night was almost as fun as watching the final hour of election coverage there in November 2016. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/clinton-election-day-party-turns-sour-trump-win-draws-article-1.2865196%3FoutputType%3Damp
This must be one of those times when off topic is a-okay with you.
There is a correlation bewtween the way democrats felt that night and this weekend.
Bullshit. You went off topic and it stayed.
I went off topic and you tried to get other people to flag my comment because you lost your flagging ability from abuse.
Nice try.
I didn’t abuse anything. It’s all about the pro liberal bias here.
Unless I've missed something, the only folks who know anything regarding the actual content of the report at this juncture are Misters Barr and Mueller.
I'll hold my boo hoos and yippees until later.
Actually, Mueller and his team know what is in the report along with Barr and maybe Rosenstein. But, I stand by my prediction that what we will see is a report that has 90% of the names and anything dealing with Trump blacked out due to DOJ rules regarding those not indicted.
Hmm... Barr hasn't released the report, and Mueller has gotten his small fish. Hence, no more indictments expected from him.
Nobody knows the final details or reccomendation from Mueller and so many are already claiming victory base on Mathews and his hissy fit.
I think I'll wait until the public disclosure to dance or cry.
The one I'm waiting for is the NYS investigation.
Which witch hunt will you be counting on after that?
The dirty money and the hundreds of thousands the Trumps' cheated and stole from is always right behind the Trumps. A lot of people would like the have a 'piece of them' just for the revenge. I think they're going to get it too.
....Attorney General William Barr on Sunday released the "principal conclusions" of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's completed Russia probe in a four-page letter to Capitol Hill lawmakers, which stated definitively that Mueller did not establish evidence that President Trump's team or any associates of the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia -- "despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign."
"The Special Counsel did not find that any U.S. person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated" with Russians who hacked computers belonging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton, according to Barr's letter.
Additionally, according to Barr's letter, ""The special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its effort" to interfere with the 2016 presidential election using a disinformation campaign, according to Mueller's report.
For Trump, who has tweeted more than 230 times that he and his team did not collude with Russians, the moment amounted to a near-total vindication.....https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-releases-letter-summarizing-muellers-key-findings-after-long-running-russia-probe
Read it and weep Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow.
The truly sad part will be watching those who pushed the "Big Lie" of collusion simply pretend it never happened. The last two years will get flushed down the memory hole.
There will be no lessons learned by the media and no repercussions for their unprecedented attack on a President.
The CNNs of the world will simply find another angle to wage their partisan war.
The AG could appoint a Mueller like figure to investigate all the run up to this and possibly indict people. The IG Horowitz could well uncover more about the deep state and their attempted coup as well.
I just watched Morning Joe say that we should be happy that there were no findings of collusion or conspiracy, laughing at his dumb ass that for 2 years he and his ugly assed wife screamed that Trump is guilty as hell, off his rocker and they can't wait until the Mueller probe is done so they can watch the Trump family goose stepped to prison.
Liberals are moving goal post after goal post, now hoping that the loons of the New York and Eastern Virginia districts FIND something. Not prosecute something they KNOW happened, but FIND something.
Loony Nadler is saying the Mueller probe was not allowed to go into certain places, but we all know they went everywhere, otherwise they probably would never had known about what Mannafort had done, or what Cohen had done. The Mueller gang of angry Democrats are the ones that forwarded those accusations to the other jurisdictions. There was no where Mueller did not go.
If loony Nadler subpoenas Barr or Mueller, I hope they tell him to fuck off. They need to.
Nadler is an unnatural act in person.
not a chance.
people will be made an example of to prevent this from happening again.
nobody just walks away from this - count on it.
cheers
I hope you are right.
Until the report is seen by more than Barr and Rosenstein, this is just Trumpspin. Don't believe Barr's four pages of spin prove anything except how far the right will go to protect someone like Trump, who will end up going down for his money misdeeds. And Russia is STILL helping Trump whether we can prove Trump is guilty or not.
Mueller truthers believe Mueller and his Democratic staff are in on the conspiracy now too.
Nope, just waiting for more than a little spin summary. Nobody has seen anything else yet, how can anybody know? Barr doesn't count.
no worries, at this point it can not be stopped.
cheers
Yep. Everything that breaks in the favor of truth and our President is a giant conspiracy against the democrat party.
I'm fairly sure no one of importance is waiting for you to give them the all clear on this. so we will just move along as if ya said nothing at all and go after the people who tried to frame trump.
about 2 yrs ago I told you this day would come. are ya having fun yet?
No he is wrong, as usual.
you are funny...
like last season, this season im batting 1000 and your still batting ZERO
The Dems are butt hurt that there was no collusion on the part of Trump or his campaign. They were so hoping that the President of the United States 🇺🇸 of America was actually an asset of Russian intelligence agencies.
I think the last 2 years will age like a fine wine.
More tax cuts please!!
we required more room on the hook for obamas administration.
I have always wondered when secret service protection starts feeling like prison guards.
only time can tell
How can an article that has been on the board for 6 days , with only 90 comments in that time, be currently "trending" on NT?
I just noticed that this seed is at the top of the "trending" list. Maybe some adjustments are in order. Just sayin.
In my opinion we should be encouraging a continuous seeding of articles, not belaboring seeds from a week ago. If you have a new insight, post it as a new article on the same topic.
Coming from someone who has never seed anything, that is some irony. If it was up to you everyone would be commenting on articles that are 5 years old.
Really? Why not prove that then?
"t might be right next to the one article "Trump Has No Path to 270'
Why? This was a major story about the contentious Mueller findings at the time. What exactly is new until the middle of next month when Mueller and Barr are done with preparing the material for what can be released to congress and the public? Why clutter the front page with 30 articles about the same general topic unless one has a particular perspective on the story they want to single in on.
you mean that Hillary had only a 107% chance to be elected President and that Trump had no path to 270 electoral votes and yet the underdog won anyway? Oh, poor Hillary! She and Obama got so mad that once their insurance policy failed to cover them they went all in with their coup attempt in order to try to keep their actions covered up and swept under the rug.
you do not get to control the narrative john.
and it certainly doesnt belong on a list of "trending" articles
Some are never happy unless an article falls under the "I Hate Trump" banner
we will be discussing the lefts failed coup attempt for the next 2yrs solid. (actually, a lot longer than that)
buckle up
That is the way of the left. Turn an exoneration into an attack anyway.
why not?
That is the bottom line. We are not letting go of this until the perps are frog marched to be locked 🔒 up in prison.
That'll happen right around the time Jefferson becomes a state.
That must mean it will happen pretty soon!
I won't hold my breath or buy you green bananas.
I would not be surprised if some deep state slime balls are prosecuted for their role in creating the Trump collusion hoax.
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Actually, it does. Let’s not have petty jealousies cloud judgement regarding the superior nature of my seeds and posts here.
He wants all articles present on the top of the front page to be of the I hate Trump nature.
Locked, seeder hasn't been here for days
Someone forgot 4.1.10