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Delivering. >> the irony of all the people who continue to hold benghazi hearings and continue to talk about hillary clintons emails to now saying we do not need bob mueller to testify. >> to that point senator lindsey graham on the senate side, he wants to bring in george papadopoulos because he wants to explore the origins of the investigation. george papadopoulos, who the president himself calls the coffee boy, we dont know -- okay, he says bob mueller, why would we wanti to talk to him? >> i...

But i think that it was very clear from what robert mueller said in that 10-minute statement and from the letter from the justice department yesterday that he is going to cover what is in that report. hes not going to show up and drop a bunch of new bombshells and answer questions that have so far gone unanswered. so that could be a source of frustration certainly for people watching from home as well as members from that committee. but i think theyre doing what they have to do. you cant have so...

Hed answer it in that form. >> what if robert mueller says i refer you to my report? >> he may very well. we will be referring to specific pages and specific sections in the report and asking him to comment on them. >> how is that going to sound? whats the question that youre going ask him? >> well, paragraph 2 on page whatever says the following. is that correct? did you find that? does this describe obstruction of justice? >> with me in studio to share their reporting and their insights, sara ...

Responds to what we expect will be attacks from the republican side. the president has spent all of this time and his allies on capitol hill have spent all of this time focused on castigating bob mueller and his team, the 18 angry democrats, all of the -- all of the attacks to try to undermine his credibility. this will be bob muellers first opportunity to respond to that. and its likely that a guy like that thats proud of his reputation will want to respond. if he doesnt want to respond, he may...

Relationship with the president but has not been afraid to criticize him in the past couple of years. nic robertson, thank you so much. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. thank you, dana. welcome to "inside politics." im john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. president trump and speaker pelosi strike a deal on the spending and the debt limit. the challenge now getting it through congress. joe biden reveals a new criminal justice reform plan, it has ideas about red...

Investigation were covered by executive privilege. theres legal precedent where bob mueller can say whatever bob mueller wants. but why a brush-back pitch from the trump justice department. >> if you remember, attorney general barr did not abide by those rulings when he decided to testify. he talked about all issues outside of the report. he explained his decision and why he decided that the president was not guilty of obstruction of justice so hes applying different rules for bob mueller. but t...