[indiscernible] gavel. Rep. Nadler the judiciary. Ommittee will come to order without objects in the chair is authorized to the great recesses of the committee at any time, we welcome everyone to the hearing on oversight of the report in the investigation into russia interference in the 2016 president ial election. I will now recognize myself for a brief Opening Statement. Director mueller, thank you for being here. I want to say a few words about our themes today, responsibility, integrity, and accountability. Your career is a model of responsibility. You are a decorated marine officer, awarded a purple heart and a bronze star for valor in vietnam. You served in senior roles at the department of justice and the beaded aftermath of 9 11 as director of the fbi. Two years ago you return to Public Service to lead the investigation into russia interference in the 2016 elections. You conducted that investigation with remarkable integrity. 22 months you never commented in public about your w
Captioning performed by vitac although your report states collusion is not a specific offense and you have said this this morning, or a term of art in federal criminal law, conspiracy is in the colloquial context are collusion and conspiracy essentially synonymous terms . You are going to have to rethat for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in the federal criminal law, conspiracy is. Yes. In the colloquial context no public context collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If not on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote in as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy 18 usc you said at your may 29 press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different from what your report states. What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it is accurate. Let me just clarify. You stated that you had stay
Mueller will testify under oatht for at lea five hours day. President trump repeatedly called the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. Today Robert Mueller, the lifelong republican and now a private citizen wil have his say and the consequences could be enormous. Well be followinghis all throughout the day and standing by to help us is our team correspondents and analysts. I am going to start out with kasie hunt on the hill for us. A hisric day, t years in the making savannah. Well see Robert Mueller in a few short mutes here sit down with the House Judiciary Committee thats going to begin at 8 30. Thats the larger of the two committees. There are 41 members on theig intellce committee. Each one is going to get about five minutes to speak. This is going to focus on alged obstruction, volume two of the Mueller Report. You will see all of those instances laid out and the report during the course of the hearing then well have a little bit of a break and the intelligence will take over. The
Wrote, you wrote as defined in legal dictionary, collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as thats set forth in statute 18 usc 371. You said at your may 29th press conference and here today, you choose your words carefully. Are you sitting here today testifying Something Different than what your report states . What im asking is, if you can give me the citation, i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it is. Let me clarify. You stated youd stay within the report. I stated your report back to you and you said collusion and conspiracy were not synonymous terms. That was your answer, no. In that, page 180 of volume one of your report it says as defined in legal dictionaries, collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as the crime is set forth in general conspiracy statute. You said you chose your words carefully. Are you contradicting your report right now . Not when i read it. So you would change your answer to yes then . No. If you look at the language im reading you
Collusion is synonymous with conspiracy as that is set forth in the federal conspiracy statute. You said at your may 29th press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different than what your report states . Well, what im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it is actually let me clarify. You stated you would stay within the report. I stated your report back to you and you said that collusion and conspiracy were not synonymous terms. That was your answer was no. Thats correct. In that page 180 of volume 1 of your report, it says, as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as a crime is set forth in 18 usc 371. You chose your words carefully are you contradicting your report right now. Not when i read it. You change your answer yes. No. If you look at the language. Im reading your report sir. Its a yes or no answer. Page 180. Volume 1. This is from