“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said at a news conference at U.S. Justice Department headquarters in which he also announced his resignation. “A president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. Mueller’s news conference on Wednesday marked his first public statement about the special counsel’s investigation since it began two years ago. He announced that he was formally closing the special counsel’s office and that he was resigning from the U.S. Justice Department to return to private life. While House Democrats have called for Mueller to testify before U.S. Congress, the former FBI director said he does not expect to speak publicly about the investigation again.

Source: Huffington Post May 29, 2019 15:56 UTC