for the house judiciary committee to start holding hearings to establish a record of whether potus committed high crimes. and joy reid, that's a reality now. >> yeah. >> and that tweet would have gone to nowhere a year ago or any time last year, because republican control of the house judiciary committee would have meant that tweet wasn't worth wallpaper. but now that kind of momentum is what robert mueller was watching today. >> yeah. >> and eventually deciding he had to say something. >> well, i think in a sense, rarely saying anything, and then coming out and disputing part of the story. but not definitively knocking the story down. i think the most difficult line to maintain in washington right now is the line, "we need to wait and see what robert mueller does before we exercise our own independent oversight authority." the house of representatives has every right, and in a sense a duty, to allow the public to understand what's happening here. they have to respect what's going on in robert mueller's investigation.