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Witnesses in the impeachment hearing itself is kind of conclusive proof, which is why, joy, when they ask a representative collins, who were the witnesses who are going to come in and defend the president and say what he did was not a crime and not impeachable. and representative collins is like, adam schiff. no, that would be like me, as the prosecutor, putting all of my 12 incriminating witnesses on and then the defense turning to the judge and say, now we want prosecutor kershner to testify? ...

Was? >> i was very surprised at that and also, this has been the narrative for a long time about this trump tower meeting that lasted for a total of 20 minutes. if even in his report he says that. so how can you not know? if youve looked at everything to do with that trump tower meeting, you know that house republicans have been talking about this for months. it was in our report that we wrote about glenn simpson and fusion gps b -- meeting with natalia pessimist gaia -- supposedly have the dirt...

They wanted to take away because even though it lay that out quite clearly that exoneration is not the duty of this task, its not part of what they can determine. its only whether or not theres enough evidence to prosecute and if you dont have it, then you dont have it and thats the end of the story. i want to get to some of what you were doing today, congressman collins, because you -- i think that a lot of americans hope that now we are going to get some things done on capitol hill and i think...

With the senate and the democrat-controlled house. thats what happened today. >> martha: i understand, but a lot of fiscal conservatives talk about the fact, congressman collins, that they felt like they got nothing in this deal. >> thats just not true. we stood with the president on this. if the president put his weight behind it and we did talk about the military. if you look at the spending bill the democrats are to put forward, the sexually -- that means we are saving money. only focus on di...

Luckily, somebody got to mr. mueller during the break and he had to come out and correct it during our committee. >> martha: representative collins, you questioned him strongly as well. were you surprised -- sort of feeling that he was coming in there and he was going to have these sort of phrases that he was going to say and it would be sort of sound bite-ready and he would rattle those off and it would be useful -- i just wonder how much democrats actually knew about the way that robert muelle...

Whether he engaged in obstruction of justice crimes in. >> id have to check on that. im not sure. >> having reviewed your work i believe anyone else would have engaged in the conduct described in your report would have been criminally prosecuted. your work is vitally important to this committee and the american people because no one is above the law. ill now recognize the gentleman from georgia, mr. collins. >> thank you mr. chairman, and were moving on the five minute rule. mr. mueller i have s...

Director mueller. we will act with integrity. we will follow the facts where they lead. we will consider all appropriate remedies. we will make our recommendation to the house when our work concludes. we will do this work because there must be accountability for the conduct described in your report especially as it relates to the president. thank you again, director mueller. we look forward to your testimony. it is now my pleasure to recognize the ranking member of the judiciary committee, the g...

Would, should, could, do the exact same thing and not get in trouble for it the way it happened here. >> since the president has said he would accept. >> he said information from foreign governments, he would definitely take a look at. >> robert mueller is about to walk into the house judiciary committee hearing room. its a packed room right now. the members -- a lot of the members are already there. theyve arrived. theyre going to be asking the questions. the jerry nadler will open with a state...

There are so many wow moments of the trump presidency i would venture to say this is, even if it doesnt go beyond the four corners, just the theater and the implications of actually hearing from robert mueller and seeing him questioned under oath, probably one of the biggest moments so far. >> here we go. >> here comes robert mueller, former fbi director, special counsel. somebody that democrats have been trying to get to this hearing room for months and months and months. finally mueller made i...

The record in its entirety. accordingly i ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes. director mueller, you may begin. >> good morning, chairman nadler and ranking member collins and members of the committee. as you know in may 2017 the acting attorney general asked me to serve as special counsel. i undertook that role because i believed that it was of paramount interest to the nation to determine whether a foreign adversary had interfered in the presidential election. as the acting a...