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Good. >> understandably. >> yeah, this was not -- democrats didn't do a great job of setting expectations going into this. mueller appeared certainly throughout the morning halting in his answers unfamiliar with what was in the report about election interference and the institutions of democracy and there he was willing to stray away from the report. when it came to the president's conduct specifically and that was the first several hours of the day, mueller was much less willing to engage with the congress members and the president felt as if that was in his favor. >> garrett, over the last c...

Already? >> it was an interesting point. and it gives the president added incentive. >> and mueller didn't know the answer to it, by the way. what will they do to get don mcgahn up? that's the star witness. how do they get don mcgahn there? they are going to court and jerry nadler talked about that at their closed-door meeting. and they have to get mcgahn because having mueller, who wrote the report, is not like having john dean, white house counsel, testifying before the watergate committee. >> isn't it moving the goal posts. it was all about the mueller report. they have the investigative po...

Not for the olc report, he would have indicted the president, ted lieu thinks mueller was giving an honest answer and the walk back was not really what he kind of -- that he basically tipped his inner thinking. >> i think that's likely accurate especially layered on some of the other answers he was giving this morning. one of the ones that stood out to me is the way he corrected at one point it's not that he declined to prosecute but declined to make a decision about whether to prosecute. which seems consistent with that. yeah, there were very few honest personal opinions of robert mueller. th...

Wanted and expected that robert mueller would bring this to life and i don't think he did. you had jeffrey sort of say well we didn't really expect it to be robert redford. we expected it to be robert mueller. i think they expected robert mueller to be much more engaged. >> this is not the robert mueller that testified. >> that's right. he seemed at times he was very engaged and had a real command of the facts with this sort of yes and no question that was probably the most effective parts but they were able to trip him up with facts in the report that he didn't have a full command on. i think...

Does this move others in congress or you toward supporting impeachment, should it move the democrats in the house toward moving toward impeachment? >> we know that additional democratic members of congress today said that they support opening and impeachment inquiry will see how the american public feels and know in the next few days and weeks how the american public assimilates this information that donald trump engaged in multiple acts of obstruction of justice which are felonies. >> is that what it's going to boil down to for democrats if the public wants an impeachment or if it's not polit...