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Good morning, everyone, and thank you for being here.

Mueller held a surprise press conference this morning at the Justice Department.

Andrew Prokop is a senior political correspondent at Vox, and he basically made four major points.

The first is that Russian interference in the 2016 campaign was very real.

The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate.

He described the charges against the Russian intelligence officers for hacking the DNC and John Podesta's email accounts.

Second, Mueller said that...

There was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.

He did not go so far as to say there was no collusion.

He just said there was not evidence to bring charges of such a conspiracy, and a judgment like that is pretty common in prosecutor's speak.

Third, Mueller said that...

He did not clear Trump of obstruction of justice charges.

He did not say no obstruction.

Instead...

If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.

And, you know, he didn't say that.

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