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By the way, mueller is talking to congress. congress doesn't need to recognize any privileges other than the fifth amendment constitutional privilege, so the letter is meaningless. what is more of a challenge is whether mueller is going to do anything other than stick to the words of the report. >> right. his own self-imposed boundaries are going to be a big challenge for you. let's be honest, you want him to stray from the report. you have questions that the report didn't answer. >> that's right, and i think we're talking a lot about, you know, hopefully mueller saying the report. that's info...

Balancing act. how much do we want to fight with robert mueller to get him to answer questions that aren't contained in the report. there are certain questions they would love him to answer. for example, would donald trump have been charged with a crime of obstructing justice if he was not the president. robert mueller isn't going to go there. he made the decision not to address that question in the report. he decided he would present the evidence of obstruction but not the legal conclusions. i think what democrats hope is the next best thing, to take the public through that evidence, which th...

Democratic congressman jim hines, he serves on the intelligence committee and will be questioning mueller tomorrow. great to have you here. >> good morning, alisyn. >> how did that letter that arrived from the department of justice change anything for tomorrow? >> i don't think it changes anything tomorrow. one of the challenges if you watch mueller's testimony to congress. historically he's a man of few words. one of the challenges we will have is to sort of give the questions that bring the report to life. the later is not rooted in any law, it's not rooted in anything, mueller can say anyth...

They need to pursue impeachment, you're going to find out tomorrow? >> that's the view among many of my democratic sources, not just about president trump but about attorney general bill barr. if mueller says anything that would raise questions about the integrity or the rollout done by mr. barr about the mueller investigation and its conclusions, you could see house democrats not only continue to deliberate whether to move forward with impeachment but whether to move beyond just holding mr. parr in contempt of congress perhaps to impeach him. this is a decision point, an inflection point for ...

To repeat what's in my report. >> laura, pick it up from there, what's best case scenario for democrats with witness mueller. >> the goal for democrats is to bring the mueller report to life. they are hopeful, even if mueller goes through and repeats what's in volume two, the ten examples of potential obstruction committed by the president, they're hopeful that because of the fact that the majority of the american public ha has not read this report, being able to watch mueller go through that is enough to sway public sentiment. on top of that, they are going to try to get more info out of him,...