you ll refer to that and all. i m beginning to wonder about his management style. i got the i m press that he delegated a lot. there was a lot that he seemed unfamiliar or maybe he was doing that by design so they dropped the line of questioning. he had his moments where he wasn t detached by seemed out of touch. yeah, many moments when he couldn t find his words. very inarticulate for robert mueller. you know, i thought it was a sign when he when there was a decision made to have his general counsel sitting next to him sworn in. that was a tip-off to me that he wasn t confident in his knowledge of the report. i don t think that he knew it, chapter and verse. neil: they swore that counsel in the first hearing with the understanding that questions would be directed at him. that never happened. right. you mentioned his management
obstructed justice. bob mueller was clear he wasn t prepared to go there. neil: to be fair to bob mueller, he didn t want to be here. he wanted the report to speak for itself. what surprised me and you know this process better, you know bob mueller better, he didn t have his fastball today. i m not meaning to disparage him. he didn t know a lot. maybe that was his way of not answering a lot or leaving it as a report. certain details that came to light made he wonder, did he delegate a lot of this? did his staff write this up mother than he did? doesn t surprise me that he would have delegated a lot. the investigation was big. we know the number of witnesses. but at the same time, i think he would have been more attune to the need to show that he was master of the report that he was in command of the material. he said things like he sat in on very few interviews. for bob mueller, it wouldn t be a problem to sit in the back of the room to show his active
he could not recall or answer basic questions. that s because i don t think mueller wrote this report. mueller is a figurehead with this. the anti-trump lawyers are the ones that really did all of this work, which is why mueller has no idea what s going on. i was waiting for him to say, what report are we talking about? neil: you know, i was a little surprised by that. i wondering how this will look to be fair to mr. mueller, he didn t want to be put in this position. he didn t want to testify. for a prosecutor to be speaking for congressional body let alone two of them and didn t want to add fuel to that fire. i was surprised that he seemed to have a hands off relationship because there was so much with which he at least appeared to be unfamiliar, unless he was being very cunning about it. what did you make of that? he s being cunning, this is the frustration i had. he signals days and days that he did not want to to testify and if he did, he would only speak about what is in the
performance. maybe he was tired. he was not sharp today. neil: i think a lot of democrats expected him to deliver the goods and to raise the concerns about remind congress it s up to you now to follow up on some of the clear crumbs that i dropped for you to pursue. did that work? i was very convinced when the report came out regarding the obstruction noncall. i m convinced after his testimony that he did mean to put this matter in the hands of congress. whether he i don t he s putting his finger on the scale. i believe he punted to congress or punted to the american people in terms of the next election. one thing is certain, this matter is out of the hands of the judicial system. it s now in the hands of congress or the american people. you know him very well.
backfired because first of all, there s nothing there. secondly, mr. mueller himself seemed very disoriented, couldn t answer certain questions. so i don t think that worked in their favor. i was surprised by that myself, congresswoman. we shall see. thank you for taking the time. i know you had a crazy day yourself. thank you. neil: let s go to alayna treene on this. we re waiting for the tape to rush to us from the president. he s just wrapped up what seemed to be a long series of questions with reporters on the south lawn before heading out to west virginia for this campaign event. he has said by and large that on the exoneration issue and what mueller was saying, he didn t have the right to exonerate. he folded because he didn t have the right to exonerate. look at the report. every one of these networks put up their hands. what do you make of that? that s a really interesting line of questioning.