each example that mueller has for the democrats will site, there is a presidential defense forever one of them. martha: so that s another piece of information tonight that the house wants to go back and subpoena don mcgahn, the president s lawyer. that s one of the hottest button issues in the whole report, was the president saying that he wanted don mcgahn to fire mueller. he said i will quit before i do it in the president dropped it ultimately, right? the big picture is the democrats want to breathe life into the mueller report. 448 pages long, most americans have not read it. it was a democratic quote going around a lot from the judiciary committee. most people didn t read the book, but they ll watch the movie. so if they can t turn mueller into a good movie, maybe they can turn don mcgahn into a good movie, so i would love for them to continue trying to do that. martha: looking for kind of the performance art theatrical version the living, dancing, breathing version of the
he spoke to kristen welker at the as salesperson security forum. he gave a sense how he plans to approach this. take a look. we will have to decide how much time we want to spend fighting with him to discuss things outside the report when there is an awful lot of material within the report that the american people are not familiar with, which they really need to be. so there will be a division of labor here. they will concentrate on all the connections between the trump campaign and the russians. and the house judiciary committee is going to make the case if any other american had engaged in the activity that donald trump did, that person would be brought up on obstruction charges. they plan to focus on five things. one, the president is encouraging former white house counsel don mcgahn to fire mueller. the president sending a message by way of corey lewandowsky to tell jeff sessions to limit the scope of the investigation and
see more as the president ramps up his re-election efforts. sarah westwood, cnn, berkeley heights, new jersey. some of the most highly anticipated public testimony of mr. trump s presidency comes wednesday when former special counsel robert mueller appears before two congressional committees. some democrats believe it may be the push they need to begin impeachment proceedings against the president. our manu raju has a preview for you. reporter: lawmakers are intensely preparing for the most anticipated hearing in decades. when special counsel robert mueller testifies about the findings of his two-year investigation. democrats and republicans both sharpening their questions and their strategy as they hold mock hearings with top aides sitting in as mueller. cnn has learned that democrats on the house judiciary committee will focus on five areas of potential obstruction of justice laid out in the mueller report. including trump s order to then white house counsel don mcgahn to fire
obstruction first. then they will do the russia investigation. it is the russia investigation, and the outreach to the trump campaign. the trump campaign was willing to take it. they never called the fbi. they covered up what they do. it s very difficult to get that. my hunch is what they need to do, for example, on the obstruction is to focus on those sectionings on what he said the president obstructed justice basically. he used prosecutorial speak to say it. focus on the firing of mcgahn. having mcgahn fire mueller, having mcgahn lie and those types of things. tease out the details. to try to put life into the story. it is a difficult proposition to get it done. potentially two of the biggest questions that are outside around the mueller investigation is, one, why
mueller testifies about the findings of his two-year investigation. democrats and republicans sharpening their strategy as they hold hearings with top aides sitting in as mueller. they learned they will focus on five areas of potential obstruction of justice laid out in the mueller report, including trump s order to then white house counsel don mcgahn to fire mueller. also trump s order to foreign campaign manager corey lewandowski to tell jeff sessions to eliminate investigations with the president and fire sessions if he did not meet with lewandowski. there are episodes in the mueller report of witness tampering, including trump encouraging paul manafort and michael cohen not to cooperate with federal prosecutors. just if he says what was in the report and says it to the