Ratcliffe discusses Mueller Report on America's Newsroom

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders there pointing to what she says prompted the Mueller investigation earlier on this program. This has President Trump and several top Republican lawmakers suggest it is time to look into how this all began in the first place. So will congressional committees go down that road? We do not know. Let's bring in Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe, member of both the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. And good morning to you, sir. Perhaps you can answer that question for us. Is that what is next? Good morning, Sandra Bell. Good to be with you. Well, that is what's going to happen over in the Senate where Republicans control the Judiciary Committee. Lindsey Graham has already indicated that. Jim Comey said yesterday that he had so many questions and Lindsey Graham agreed with him, says I do have questions for you and we're going to bring you in to see that in the House. Unfortunately, it's Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler and Elijah Cummings that control the committees that should be looking into these issues. But instead, what they tell us they want to look at is the issue of collusion and obstruction that Bob Mueller just dispatched. So, you know, why Bob Mueller, who had unlimited time, unlimited money, unlimited resources, 40 FBI agents working with 20 federal prosecutors, couldn't find any evidence of any crimes. What in the name of God's green earth makes anyone think that Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler and Elijah Cummings could find what Bob Mueller couldn't? Twenty eight hundred subpoenas, 500 search warrants and on and on and on. I mean, it's a it's a healthy list there. You and Trey Gowdy had a chance to talk to James Comey a year ago. What did you conclude then? Well, we reached the same conclusion that Bill Barr and Rod Rosenstein announced yesterday with respect to the issue of obstruction. It really wasn't a close call. We asked Jim Comey, how could President Trump have obstructed an investigation into collusion when he didn't know there was an investigation? You repeatedly told him there was no investigation. Why would he obstruct an investigation into collusion when, as Bob Mueller tells us, there was no collusion? This was not a close call. I think that the special counsel did do a disservice to the president and to the American people by saying, well, we're not going to charge the president with a crime, but we're not exonerating him. That's not the burden of proof. Donald Trump does not need to be exonerated. He has a presumption of innocence. If the government can meet its burden, it should charge him. They can't meet the burden. So no evidence of collusion, no evidence of obstruction, a complete win for the president.