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I was kind of writing about mueller, the man. It is very hard to get close to them. He has an and or circle of people, and none of them would talk to me, either. The spokesperson for his office would not talk to me. I had to go a few rings out. And i think, as everyone anxiously awaited release of the report, there was a mystique that formed around him. The truthlly embodied about this great controversy over what happened in the last election, he personally was going to be capable of going to the bottom of it and with President Trump noisily remarking on every development, and Robert Mueller doing exactly the opposite, i think a kind of fascination for around any noise or indication from his side. Host to you think that mystique was broken with the release of the report, or the less than 10 minute News Conference that he had came out . , the no, i think it people who are waiting for, thinking he holds the answers, they have kept pushing the delivery of those answers forward. Now it is
Tomorrow and testifies before the House Judiciary Committee and then the House Intel Committee what are you expecting from him . From what weve seen it sounds like its going to be a lot of reiterating of what we have already written the report. One thing thats very interesting to me is there is so much ambiguity and legal hairsplitting in the language of the report he may inadvertently have to deviate from it a little bit just to put it in plain english and a way that people can understand particularly about the decisions about whether to prosecute and whether to charge. Its all very technical when you read it in text. A backandforth exchange he might have to put a finer point on things. I think we will see him avoiding strenuously having to do that and go beyond the four corners of the document. Host the gq profile that you wrote before the Mueller Report came out. Have brought the report here on the desk with us. In the story you write that the quiet of Robert Mueller is part of the