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Governments within the u.s. elections. >> lauren faugs, thanks so much. >> let's speak more about this now with shan wuand the what correspondent for the guardians. one, legally does mueller have to abide by these doj regulations and also what we know about mueller being a company man, a by a book man, is he likely to. >> i think he's very unlikely to stray outside what would be. interestingly he asked to be subpoenaed and i think the subpoena actually places some more restrictions on him, on your doj guidelines. as an ex-employee if he's subpoenaed he may still have some restrictions on him. ...

A very good tuesday morning to you. i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm poppy harlow. did you get the memo? we are one day out from robert mueller's high stakes hearing and speaker pelosi is laying out the game plan for her party. ecpose the president's alleged crimes, corruption and cover-up. one thing really not mentioned in these documents is impeachment. >> we know the house speaker not in favor of that for now. meanwhile the justice department laying out its own guidelines for mueller warning the special counsel to stay in his lane, stick only to what's included in his public report. one thing th...

Charged with obstruction of justice. >> can i just ask you, he doesn't work for doj anymore. and he wouldn't break any laws if he breaks that guidance. >> he can talk about anything. but to be fair he has gone in line with the just department within this process. he's conferred with them and stayed within their buoundaries and he did ask for this guidance. the first thing the justice department said in this letter, we are responding to your request for guidance on this. look, we talked about the opening statement. that is not being reviewed by the justice department. attorney general will not ...

They're scripting questions. they are getting ready. we've also heard that republicans have looked at some old tape of mueller's past testimony. he's come to capitol hill more than 80 times since 1990. so a lot on the line tomorrow for democrats. you can expect folks like jerry nadler are going to be pressing mueller to answer the questions they have even despite that guidance that was sent yesterday from the justice department. here's what the chairman of the judiciary committee said earlier today on cnn. >> he does not have to comply with that letter. he doesn't work for them, and that lette...

Executive branch. >> shan, so forget bob mueller's discomfort. also forget the doj sfruinstrucs to him. there's a very legitimate question here left unclear by the public report. and that is was doj policy preventing indictment of the sitting president or a lack of evidence that held the special counsel from recommending an indictment? that's a fair question that requires clarification, is it not? >> it does. and he tries to clarify in the report, but i'm hoping if one thing comes out of his testimony it's to clarify for the american people that they felt they could not charge a sitting presid...