but will robert mueller comply? robert mueller give the narrative answers that give the sound bites or will he be much more restrained in what he says? if all they can do is ask him did you say this in his report and he says yes, the democrats will not achieve what they want, educate the public, to get the soundbite that they can use either in the impeachment or election process. the issue is if they try to push robert mueller and yod whatbeyos in his report and he refuses to answer or gives grand jury secrecy, then robert mueller looks like a recalcitrant witness, something that was evasive. and the whole premise of the report is robert mueller is this man of great integrity and now how is he going to look on tv because his demeanor is such that he tried to press them beyond what he said he would talk about. how much of this in your view has to do with the fact republicans will focus on investigating the investigator so to speak? they re basically obsessed with
i want to bring in michael conway, he served as legal counsel to the house judiciary committee during the impeachment proceedings against president nixon. michael, you just published a piece that has this headline democrats forcing robert mueller to testify about his report could sabotage their case for impeachment. and you write that questioning by democrats and more importantly by republican members may create a spectacle that could undermine mueller s credibility with the public and, therefore, his report. what do you mean by all of this? sure. i think the democrats are pursuing a high risk/high reward strategy and then left themselves no other option because they can t get don mcmahan, they can t get hope hicks because they ve gone to court and will be there months and months. they will ask robert mueller questions. their hope is robert mueller will give narrative answers, reciting information from his report, following what congressman nadler said that there s information ther
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make a decision, he obviously would ve found that the president committed crimes and recommended charging him, right? i mean, if i m mueller, i would say do you want me to make a decision in fine. exactly. a recommended indictment. barr said that to cbs last month. so i think mueller is free to do something he couldn t do back in march when he turned in the report. and to me that s why the hearing on wednesday is an opportunity, even if mueller wanted to stay within the four corners of the report, barr himself has invited him to go further now. i want to unpack one more of your points because i don t think this gets enough attention. there is i m sort of a dabbler in fox news editorial content. but there is a threat that has run through that network s programming in the mornings and in prime time for the better part of two years around pete struck. they have so primed their viewers to think that this
he s also the president of the national action network. let me start with you two on mueller. it s hard to imagine a point in time even in this presidency when democrats would ve had to work to return the country s attention back to mueller. it was such a focus for not just the media, not just the democrats but for trump himself for the first 22 month of his presidency. are they approaching this the right way, and do they have that right bringing the public s attention to the criminal conduct un-earthed by mueller? well, i think the good news for the president is we re not discussing right now at least for the last few moments whether the president s a racist. it s are you a felon. and i do think the democrats are on the right path here because the mueller report, yes, it s 448 pages and it s really long and people don t want to read something that long, but this hearing on wednesday is the first time that americans are going to watch on television this guy former marine mueller, for