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To exercise the subpoena powers because of the necessity of expediting the end of the investigation. >> you did go with written questions after nine months, sir, right? and the president responded to those. and you have some hard language for what you thought of those responses. what did you think of the president's written responses, mr. mueller. >> it was certainly not as useful as the interview would be. >> and of course we recall he told congresswoman demings that he agreed generally they were untruthful in those answers. at least not always being truthful. so back with me in the panel. da...

Thing that thing that i as a journalist would look for, the absolute nut -- i'm not going to do the perry mason thing because you never get a perry mason -- >> perry mason para docks. >> there you go. the question is why didn't mueller indict him. was it because the president didn't commit a crime? or because there was the jurisdiction, the office of legal counsel guidelines from the justice department saying, you can't indict a sitting president? that would be the one question i would want to have clarity on. and the problem is that he's probably just going to say what's exactly in the report...

Horowitz is looking into that and you have john durham now who is very talent and going to work hard at trying to expose what happened in our intelligence community interaction on the campaign and the use of fisa. but, when you are investigating russian conspiracy by members of the trump campaign, how do you not look at whether or not there was a basis to begin with and who knew what when they presented the case to the fisk. the fisa court judge is supposed to receive vetted material and supposed to have confidence that that material has been verified and is accurate. and here we don't see tho...

Who may be getting advances from foreign contacts like the trump campaign did to report that. we saw more than a hundred contacts laid out in the mueller report and in some of the reporting around the mueller report between the trump campaign and russian officials that were never reported to the fbi. even if they don't get these witnesses immediately, the strategy by house leadership is to go ahead and still hold these hearings highlighting the wrongdoing. >> there are hearings under way about obstruction of justice including john dean and joyce vance. what do you think the goal of those heari...

Are they changing strategy? >> they are not changing strategy? what they're doing is finding a way to hold hearings at the same time that they come up with creative ways to compel witnesses, to compel testimony, and to get the documents that they need to hold those hearings. right now they don't have any of those things. hopefully this is a big breakthrough in terms of their getting this information in their hands and being able to review this within the committee. however, they're very much lacking on those other fronts in terms of getting all of these witnesses like don mcgahn, hope hicks, t...