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Understand that mr. mueller is likely to limit his testimony to the contents of his report and his investigation. i do think its sort of curious that the presidents lawyers thought it was important to remind him of his commitment to do that and make this sort of ridiculous claim that there is executive privilege attaching to everything else. i mean, think about that. the subject of an investigation claiming executive privilege on the content of the investigation is absurd. there is no basis for ...

Have read the entire report. it understandable. it is somewhat dense in places. if you dont have a legal or investigative background, i can see how people could get bogged down. the key would be if the democrats are focusing what are the big takeaways from volume one and volume two and then in totality, what are the conclusions. even if they had him read some of the conclusions in the report, that would be the first time if many people, if not most people, have heard that specific language. >> i...

Testify tomorrow before two house committees about his investigation into president trump and russian interference in the 2016 election. our next guest is the star witness in the watergate hearings -- was, of course. heres former nixon white house counsel john dean back in 1973. >> these, of course, are my conclusions but i believe they are well-founded in fact. this committee, however, is not interested in my conclusions rather interested in the facts as i know them. rather than my characterizi...

Him, leading questions, make him draw conclusions. thats going to be hard for them. thats a tough road with robert mueller. >> this is an important point, though, which is that even with any witness, robert mueller or anyone else, they generally dont often agree with conclusions, they agree with facts. so to the extent that congress when they ask questions can basically be very specific about the facts theyre asking mueller in the report, theyll go a lot farther than trying to get him to draw co...

And the conclusions me made about the president. for example directing his legal counsel don mcgahn to fire the special counsel to fire mueller. he then directed mcgahn to lie and said he never told him to do that. and directed him to create a false document memorializing that lie for the future. he also well hear testimony from mr. mueller about corey lewandowski being summoned by the president to the white house being told to go tole the attorney general of the united states to tell the specia...

Youve got 6 out of 10 who say, no, among independents, you have more than 9 out of 10 republicans who say dont move forward, so ellie i feel like theres a two step process, somehow more of the narrative gets out. instances of potential obstruction of justice that are in the report that people may not know about, the conversation between the president and don mcgahn, people may not know that story, and there has to be enough fire that catches after that to change this dynamic. >> i look at this a...

None of that is within the four corners of the report. but even the people saying you should stick to the report want answers to those questions. so what is very important is not just the things he said affirmatively in the report and how he came about those conclusions but also defending the integrity of the men and women in the special counsel team who have pretty much so far been undefended by their boss. >> one of the most significant decisions mueller made was to not subpoena president trum...

Investigation about the attack of the democracy by russians and the president effort to cover it up. and his responsibility is share the conclusions of this report with the american people. its a proceeding which will be serious, where i think people understand the gravity of the moment. again i think what he will reveal is really damming evidence that this president engaged in specific acts that would constitute obstruction of justice. any other person because of the opinion saying a sitting op...

Questions because at the end of the day, this is about protecting our country and our national security as well. >> 88 democrats so far on the house support beginning formal impeachment proceedings against the president. youre not among them. could muellers testimony tomorrow change your mind? >> possibly. hes one person who commands a tremendous amount of stature and credibility and depending on what he says, a lot of peoples minds could be changed tomorrow. and so that is why i think tomorrows...

Balancing act. how much do we want to fight with robert mueller to get him to answer questions that arent contained in the report. there are certain questions they would love him to answer. for example, would donald trump have been charged with a crime of obstructing justice if he was not the president. robert mueller isnt going to go there. he made the decision not to address that question in the report. he decided he would present the evidence of obstruction but not the legal conclusions. i th...