Mueller explained that he decided not to make a determination on prosecution because of a policy issued by the Office of the Legal Counsel that “the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions” in violation of “the constitutional separation of powers.”
“Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President’s conduct,” he wrote in the report.
In a recent interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Nadler reiterated that it is important for the American people to her from Mueller that the President did not commit obstruction of justice.
