about, he s going to stick to what is in the report and i know a lot of people have not read the report, most people have not in the country but essentially, people, you know, if they had any interest have a general sense of what is in the report and it doesn t seem like mueller is, you know, given, we ve looked at hundreds of hours of prior testimony he s given over the years, he has certainly not, you know, an emotional witness. yeah, no, i think that s true. look, there will be a crowd of people who have already made up their mind and it really doesn t matter what you say. they aren t going to change their mind. i believe there is a crowd of americans that are willing to listen and are willing to listen to bob mueller and even though he may not be the most dynamic guy in terms of how he answers questions, we re going to be talking about subjects that are very important to our democracy and to our country and i think that people will perk up because of that.
i don t know what the president and others are complaining about. it makes sense to me. we looked at a lot of mueller s past testimony. he s deliberate. if there is a fact he doesn t know, he says i ll get back to you. like in this context, getting back right, getting back isn t the same. this is when he was fbi director. normally when a person like that is testifying, they can say we ll take that as a question for the record and my agency will get back to you because you have a staff of people answering those questions. that won t happen here. to short circuit that, i m expecting director mueller wants aaron there. there is a lot of expectations on all sides of this, however you look at it. what are you expecting tomorrow? people need to lower their expectations in terms of what they get out of director mueller from democrats. if the democrats are expecting this to be a tied changing thing, it s not. that s not going to happen, i don t think. the main thing to me i
judiciary intelligence committee. thanks for being with us. i don t quite understand the i mean, the president s upset about this, it seems he s looking for a reason to again say this is a rigged witch hunt. what s the big deal about robert mueller, people have attorneys all the time, people they consult with during their testimony. it disrupts what the white house has been trying to do with respect to the mueller report. they redacted and tried to keep witnesses from appearing and testifying and suppressed the evidence. any additional help in telling the story, i think that goes against what they are trying to do. why do you think mueller waited until the last minute to do this? does that raise any concerns for you? i don t think so. there is on going conversations whether or not he would bring one or more aids with him. as we ve mentioned, it s an extensive report, a lot of witnesses were interviewed. a lot of documentation was gone through.
disruptive of this, but i think that and for the democrats, this is very important. so i think they want to be prepared and there has been a lot of talk about how mueller will stick to what s in the report but i think there are opportunities here to ask really direct yes and no questions. you can ask was this meant to be an impeachment referral, yes or no. if another person has done the things in this report, the type of obstruction of justice that seems to be laid out, anybody other than the president would you have charged him with a crime, yes or no? there are opportunities to ask him to address things not answered in that report. mike, do you think you could come up with answers that say as we said. that doesn t look like what he s doing, i can t say it. look, this entire thing is theater. all the fundraising emails are written and ready to go out tomorrow from the superstar on that committee that will get five minutes.
it is not safe to say how people see it here in washington nor how people all over the country will likely see it tomorrow. house democrats will be questioning him tomorrow spent the day prepping for it. the president s republican defender circulated talking points which cnn obtained. the president has been tweeting and talking about it no surprise and this is whether he thinks it ought to be or not a key moment in his presidency and a critical one for the country. everyone if robert mueller stays within the confines of his report as he says he will, it is still tremendously important or at least it could be. because not everyone of course has read it. in fact, most people have not and because so many including the president especially the president have been mischaracterizing what the report actually says. i m quoting now from volume 1, page 1, the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. that is how the report begins. i want