It WAS the briefest Special Prosocutor show in modern times….
The others ran for years and YEARS….
The others got a President to quit and another Impeached…
This one’s first act got almost 500 pages…10 times or so the defendant was found to have put himself in possible illegality….BUT…The Prosocutor refuses to actually pass judgment on criminality using his Justice Departments policy as a excuse…
Democrats in the House are just hoping that the media reporting of the Robert Mueller words and him and aide in person could arouse some tailwind for them with the public….
They don’t have the votes in Senate to convict and House Democrats in safe districts don’t care if they keeping ‘impeachment’ will hurt their fellow House Democrats in unsafe districts in next years elections…
We’ve said here now…
Our hope that Mueller’s uncovering go illegality would make Trump take a hit that could make him quit is just that….Hope….
He isn’t gonna quit…
Robert Mueller goes before the House and camera’s tomorrow….
There us little ‘hope’ it will matter…
After all the swearing at, finally comes the swearing in. When Robert S. Mueller III takes the oath on Wednesday morning in the wood-paneled Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building, he will answer questions for the first time since opening his special counsel investigation into President Trump and Russia more than two years ago.
But for all the anticipation, for all the fighting that it took to get to this day, many in Washington assume it will be more fizzle than sizzle. Mr. Mueller, the famously stoic prosecutor and reluctant witness, has vowed to adhere strictly to the words of his 448-page report and no more, making it unlikely that he will serve as the dramatic accuser Mr. Trump’s critics yearn to see.
“I don’t have high expectations for any additional substantive appreciation of Mr. Mueller’s investigation,” said former Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, who was the Democratic leader during the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999. “I think he’s going to stick to the script, and the Justice Department has told him to stick to the script, so I think it will be difficult for him to provide any more information.”
That is not to say it will be free of fireworks. Democrats will use Mr. Mueller to argue that Mr. Trump benefited from Russia’s help in the 2016 election even if investigators did not establish a criminal conspiracy and that his efforts to impede the investigation amounted to obstruction of justice even if Justice Department rules bar indictment of a sitting president. Republicans will grill the former special counsel to press their case that the entire investigation represented an illegitimate, partisan coup attempt even though Mr. Mueller himself is a lifelong Republican.
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President Trump on Tuesday touted executive powers he is afforded under the Constitution while appearing to dismiss claims of possible obstruction of justice on the eve of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony on Capitol Hill.
Trump during a speech at the Turning Point USA Teen Student Action Summit in Washington asserted his belief that his past actions did not amount to obstruction given the executive power he is afforded under Article 2 of the Constitution…
The Hill…
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Senate Republicans are dismissing Mueller’s testimony to the House before it even happens. Most say they are too busy and won’t watch it, others say it’s a waste of time, and still more say it’s redundant after the special counsel already issued his springtime report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump….
Politico…
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President Trump on Tuesday blasted the House Judiciary Committee’s decision to let former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top aide on the Russia investigation accompany him during his testimony before House lawmakers on Wednesday.
Mueller, who will testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee for at least two hours and the House Intelligence Committee another two hours, requested that Aaron Zebley, his former chief of staff and top aide on the Russia probe, be at the witness table during testimony. Fox News is told the Intelligence Committee will swear in Zebley before its hearing….
Fox News…
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler told CNN Tuesday former Special Counsel Robert Mueller doesn’t have to comply with a Justice Department letter stating he “must remain within the boundaries” of his Russia report during congressional testimony….
Axios…
Almost anyone who cares has already made him their mind about this.
Mueller is not going to say anything that is not already known.
Again, what’s the point?Whats the endgame?
I believe that few people have ACTUALLY READ the report….
The House Democrats are doing this to HIGHLIGHT the points Mueller mad against actions that for anyone else would b
have been charged with crimes…
The end game is NO conviction…
The Democrats do NOT have the votes in the US Senate….
The Democratic leadership in the House has to cover the members in the Trump states ….
For Trump and Republicans?
CHECKMATE!…
BTW?
Mueller will be attacked by Republicans to cover Trump’s illegality….
Mueller looks beatdown and lost already….
We’re 11 minutes in….
Rep Jackson Lee is pointing that the language of the report CLEARLY report does indeed say that investigation CLEARLY state’s that a person found guilty of the actions they found would found to have done something illegal…
Republicans goal seems to be that Mueller should NOT even make a call if ANYTHING is legal or illegal….
Mueller says OLC policy allows him to investigate to find any criminality…Even if they think the President cannot be charged with a crime…
If I was Mueller?
I’d be getting a bit pissed that Republican’s are trying to make him look like an asshole….