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Whether he engaged in obstruction of justice crimes in. >> i'd have to check on that. i'm 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. i'll now recognize the gentleman from georgia, mr. collins. >> thank you mr. chairman, and we're moving on the five minute rule. mr. mueller i have several questions. many of you which you just answered but i want to lay some foundations. and we...

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 gentleman from georgia, mr. collins for his opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank y...

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. it's a packed room right now. the members -- a lot of the members are already there. they've arrived. they're going to be asking the questions. the jerry nadler will open with a statement, the ranking member, the republican representative collins will then have an opening stateme...

There are so many wow moments of the trump presidency i would venture to say this is, even if it doesn't 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 it straer clear they would have subpoena him if they wanted him to come before the hearing, and he 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 attorney general said at the time the appointment was necessary in order for the american people to h...