parties political needs. the democratic mistake to set expectations for the hearings so high. it will be the movie. the public will see the mo vi not the book. i warned everybody. when you have most witnesses are reluctant. if you have someone who openly says that. and you should draw down your expectation. lower expectations and there were some who had really high expectations. but i think for most people they re not surprised he didn t say much. they re surprised at the performance. repeat the question, i don t understand that. the start stop. that threw people off. in moments like this, a tense exchange. between congressman and mueller. watch this. which doj policy or principle set forth a legal standard that an investigation person is not exonerated if they re innocence from criminal conduct is not
went into this investigation aware of the olc opinion. but not maybe completely decided on where they would come out on that on day one. i don t know what process or period of time it took to come to the ultimate conclusion. i certainly take director mueller at his word. and i don t take everybody at their word. mueller wouldn t address anything related to what the fbi currently investigating. and the inspector general. he wouldn t talk about certain aspects. you open the counter intelligence investigation. would should americans take away from the on goik investigations sns. director mueller said a couple interesting things today that surprise me in that regard. the fact he revealed the fact that fbi counter intelligence investigators were imbedded with the special counsel team for the duration of the investigation. for the purpose of coordinating counter intelligence investigation. that means in normal people
or may not have included in the investigation. i m not getting into that any further. democrats who were counting oun mueller to move the ball forward, didn t get exactly what they wanted today. here s the thing. as jim points out. what s really important here is what mueller said and not how he said it. what mueller said was that the trump campaign welcomed russia s election interference. lied to cover it up. the trump campaign officials built their strategy the messaging strategy around the stolen documents? generally that s true. and lied today cover it up? generally that s true. he said the president was not exonerated of obstruction. the president is repeatedly
president. i ll talk to the congressmen in a few minutes. listen to this. why didn t you subpoena the president? we negotiated from with him for over a year. what you eluded to lays out our expectations as a result of those negotiations. but finally, we were almost towards the entd of the investigation and had little success in pushing to get the intervoo ot president. we decided we didn t want to exercise the subpoena power. because of the necessity of expediting the end of the investigation. was that the expectation was if we did subpoena the president, he would fight it. and we would be in the middle of the investigation for a substantial period of time. so what that was was that was
little success in pushing to get the interview of the president. we decided that we didn t want to exercise the subpoena powers because of the necessity of expediting the end of the investigation. as i said that was a long winded way of saying it would take too long. did the answer make sense to you? what s in the report is he says he had sufficient evidence of the president intent. and there have you re trying to establish intent, and you can t get an interview of the subject. you go with circumstantial evidence. what s so compelling is right on page 13. volume 2. he references it. we believe we had sufficient evidence to assess the president s intent. what i want to say is mueller just it was going to take a long time or given how long it would