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   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?”   
      
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    "My only conclusion is that the President transmitted to   
   Mueller that he would take the 5th. He would never talk to him   
   and therefore, Mueller decided it wasn't worth the subpoena   
   fight." @KenDilanianNBC on Mueller concluding his report.   
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   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?”   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/msnbcs-chris-matthews-livid-   
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