subpoenas, that he is not going to offer anyone from the administration to testify. and then in fact he won t deal with congress about anything as long as they re attempting oversight of his administration. so, sure, it sounds to me like a very pro tracted exercise whereas impeachment gives congress special powers, brings it into focus and let s the american people see on tv just the way we saw mr. mueller today what the truth is. and that s what we need, the american people to see the truth. so the two people who are most important in congress on this obviously the speaker, nancy pelosi, it s her decision and the chairman of the house judiciary committee gerry nadler who would initiate impeachment proceedings and hearing. they both sponed today to what mueller had to say and here they are. getting the facts to the american people or getting the truth for the american people, where any will lead us we shall see nothing off the table. with respect to the kbeefrpment question all o
white house official told me earlier that the white house s view is that in will help them in 2020 in terms of oh, retaking the house of representatives. now that can all very well be a very poly anna view of the situation trying to spin this as a positive for president trump. but the white house is also just trying to spin what robert mueller said. sarah hawk bee sanders, white house press secretary repeatedly said that mueller should have said whether or not he would have charged president trump with obstruction of justice. and she said he had a moral obligation to do that. but as you just pointed out, mueller made it clear that he felt he could not do that because of the doj guidelines. the white house is both trying to pin this as a positive for them from a political perspective and also trying to suggest that robert mueller shirked his responsibilities by not making it clear how he felt about the obstruction part of this and that by doing so essentially exonerated the president on
yes. and this white house is not paying attention to the serious underlying issue. obviously, john, he made it clear he can t charge a sitting president because of the opinion, right he put great weight in that. even he said even more clearly this was directly in opposition to barr who told chuck grassley i think he absolutely would have said he had all this information that was bad even if he didn t charge purely said no way, right. mueller said if i was going to accuse one someone of a crime i was going to charge and i couldn t charge who i wasn t going to accused. this opens the door to what is next. today mueller the continued to say this when he talked about not dieting trump. yeah. the opinion explicitly explicitly permits the investigation of a sitting president because it is important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents available. among other things, that evidence could be used if there were coconspirators who could be
if he is asked he will probably do it voluntarily. but if he don t want to do it voluntarily. they can subpoena him and force the issues. subpoena it is an awkward way to do it. but his testimony is also hearsay. you could also get a lot of what he could say from other witnesses where he could shine a bigger light in sort of an overview. i mean, david, here is the question. you heard congressman connolly, right he said he is coming i don t care whether he wants to be here or not he is coming. nancy pelosi said she wants him to come. however gerry nadler had originally threatened to subpoena backed away. here is pelosi and nadler. yes, i think it would be useful for him to testify before congress. are you going to subpoena mueller to testify then? mr. mueller told us a lot of
play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. tum tum tum tums tonight robert mueller refusing to testify before congress. here is mueller speaking publicly the first time in two years saying he is done talking publicly about the russia investigation. the work speaks for itself. and the report is my testimony.