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The Story: Opinion polling is an applied science. Opinion polling as it relates to campaigns for President of the United States is the most visible...

The Justice Department’s Inspector General released a report critical of former FBI Director James Comey, so why are both Comey and President Trump celebrating its release? Former Federal Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner and former U.S. Attorney Greg Brower join Chris Jansing…

According an Office of the Inspector General report released Thursday, former FBI director James Comey violated policy by leaking memos, but DOJ will decline to prosecute. Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare joins Morning Joe to discuss. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc…

The DOJ has found no evidence Former FBI Director James Comey leaked classified memos or information to the media. Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director, asserts the finding reveals ‘Comey did not leak classified information,’ but raises the question ‘what…

The Department of Justice has released the Inspector General report on former FBI Director James Comey leaking memos about his meetings with President Trump. NBC's Julia Ainsley has more on the report and the decision not to prosecute Comey. »…

Former FBI Director James Comey and the Deadline White House table discuss what should be asked of former special counsel Robert Mueller during his upcoming public testimony » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics…

Former FBI Director James Comey looks ahead to Robert Mueller’s public testimony and tells Nicolle Wallace he believes there is sufficient basis to charge the president with obstruction, but Mueller is too principled to do so » Subscribe to MSNBC:…

The Story: The release of a lightly redacted report on Russia’s meddling in the US Presidential election of 2016 (the “Mueller report”) has put the...

Let’s try to boil this down. Some of his aides destroyed evidence, and Trump didn’t want his team to cooperate. Trump wanted his team to make up stories. There’s also no smoking gun, no iron-clad document or recording showing that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a plan, or money changed hands. “Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference efforts,” the Mueller report, released Thursday, said. What started as politics ends in politics. Unable to play video. HTML5 is not supported! Now it’s up to the House to decide whether it’s worth the effort of impeachment when there’s an election next year and Republicans control the Senate. If this conduct is unbecoming of a president, the House should initiate impeachment proceedings, at least to draw a line in the sand on future conduct.

The committee has also authorized subpoenas for five former White House officials who were mentioned in the Mueller report – including former White House counsel Don McGahn – that could shed light on allegations of obstruction of justice. Schiff called the facts in the report “damning,” adding, "whether they could or should have resulted in the indictment of the President or the people around him, they are damning. Watch more: GOP Senate Intel chair appeared to brief White House counsel on FBI investigation in 2017, report says Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr appeared to brief the White House counsel’s office about the targets of the FBI’s Russia investigation in March 2017, the special counsel’s report says. In a footnote, the report states that the White House counsel’s office was briefed by Burr on the "existence of 4-5 targets," citing notes from former deputy White House Counsel Annie Donaldson. The chairman’s stewardship over the committee’s bipartisan and fact-based investigation over the last two years speaks for itself.” Trump ignored reporters' questions as he left the White House President Trump and first lady Melania Trump just left the White House. None of the attendees who spoke to special counsel Robert Mueller — Sessions and at least two of his Senate aides — told Mueller that Russian meddling came up during the meeting. Sessions rebuffed efforts to stop recusal At the direction of President Trump, White House counsel Don McGahn and other aides made extensive and repeated attempts to prevent then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to special counsel Robert Mueller's report. In his remarks prior to releasing the redacted report from special counsel Robert Mueller, Attorney General William Barr said that President Trump's lawyers were given the chance to read a final version of the redacted report before it was publicly released. The Ethics in Government act Barr references covers independent counsels (Robert Mueller, instead, was a special counsel). David Kendall, a lawyer for then-President Bill Clinton during Ken Starr's independent counsel investigation, sent a letter to Starr requesting that those named in his report be allowed to see the report before its release.