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George Conway calls for Trump's impeachment

George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, is calling for impeachment following the release of the redacted Mueller report. CNN's Brian Todd reports.

Nicole Hemmer

Past Perspective on the New Mueller Report | Ken Hughes

WINA’s Les Sinclair talks with Miller Center Historian, Scholar, and Researcher, Ken Hughes, (He’s one of the nation’s foremost experts on the Nixon presidency and the Watergate scandal) about the Mueller report. He provides a critical perspective on how President Trump’s challenges compare with those faced by Presidents Nixon and Clinton—what’s similar, what’s different, and what’s likely to happen next.

Ken Hughes

Here’s what Watergate experts thought of Barr’s ‘political defense’ of Trump

Ken Hughes, an expert on Watergate at the University of Virginia, said Barr’s comments on Trump line up with defenses offered by the Nixon White House. “Richard Nixon also sincerely believed that the Watergate investigation ‘was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents, and fueled by illegal leaks,’” Hughes said, quoting Barr’s morning press conference. “None of that justified obstruction of justice then, and none of it justifies obstruction now.”

Ken Hughes

What the Mueller report is and isn't: The fog begins to lift

In essence, Mr. Mueller is saying that if he could have exonerated the president here, he would have, says Ken Hughes, a research specialist and expert on presidential abuse of power at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center who has spent two decades mining President Richard Nixon’s tapes. But Mr. Mueller was unable to reach that judgment. “Really, the special counsel’s office is saying, they couldn’t charge him because he’s president. That’s the overarching theme,” says Mr. Hughes.

Ken Hughes

What Was the Biggest Political Scandal in American History? 7 Historians Make Their Picks

The Committee to Re-elect the President was “using mechanisms of government to attack domestic opponents in the press and the political world, even breaking into the psychiatrist’s office of the Pentagon Papers leaker, Daniel Ellsberg, to see what kind of dirt they could use to smear him,” Perry explains.

Barbara Perry

In Divided Washington, Relief and Disappointment at Mueller’s Report

“The first impression of what the report said was the Barr letter,” Mr. Zelikow said, “and then a further news conference today. That has allowed the attorney general to shape the initial impressions and coverage surrounding this report for a month.”

Philip Zelikow