everybody knew was never going to go anywhere and probably now the democrats will get to the issues which is their strength and get off investigations, which has been their weakness. >> somebody doesn't seem ready, house judiciary chair jerry nadler and he says they scored victories. i want to play you his interchange with mr. mueller today. >> what about total exoneration? did you actually totally exonerate the president? >> no. >> now, in fact, your report expressly states it does not exonerate the president. >> it does. >> scott? >> i've got to say, my take, from the hearing today, kind of goes back to the old adage that all of us lawyers know which is, we're taught, you don't ask a witness a question unless you know what that answer is going to be and i think congressional democrats today made a massive miscalculation in thinking that mueller's testimony was going to be a series of made for tv sound bites that then could be hurled back at the president and it was the complete opposite of that. from a legal perspective we