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 highmy agenc will get back to you because you have a staff of people answering those questions. 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 is just have director mueller put sections of the report in front of him and read them. the report itself, the
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. jackie speiers had a fantasy robert mueller would read the report. i keep waiting to hear sunny and cher. this is the same story over and over again. the country will go whatever and democrat haves blown their chance. but the most to have an agenda. most of the country hasn t read the mueller report. they won t read it tomorrow, either. they may have it read to them and may see it coming from a credible witness, robert mueller and so there may be some
this would be necessary. the report was intercepted and it was misconstrued, the american people were misled and now we have to correct that record. members of the judiciary committee, democrats all who are preparing tonight for what will be a huge moment tomorrow morning as their committee begins questioning at 8:30 in the morning of special counsel robert mueller. joining us now is congresswoman mary gay scanlin. she s newly elected. she s now vice chair of the judiciary committee. congresswoman, thank you very much for joining us. i know you have a lot of things you d rather be doing than talking on tv. well, thank you for having me. so let me ask you about some of the news we ve learned over the course of this hour that we re still trying to make sense of. we ve learned in the last few minutes that in the intelligence committee, in the afternoon after robert mueller s testimony to your committee, aaron zebley, his deputy, described as the
thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we could so state. based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we re unable to reach that judgment. accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. this is what robert mueller intended to be his final word and it is not kind to president trump. yet, as we said, the president his defenders and attorney general have been mischaracterizing the report. here is the president earlier today. so i said this morning, i said, i wrote it out and said let s see because i m watching. goes on for years and years and years. no collusion, no obstruction. that s not good enough. let s go more. $40 million interview 500 people. they got nothing. i could find something, i could take anybody in this audience, give me $40 million, give me unlimited fbi. unlimited interviews.
as well as some other witnesses before the committee, so i say, you know, the more the merrier. if we can bring along don mcgahn and ms. donaldson and some of the other witnesses we ve subpoenaed, i d like them all to come by. surely, though, mueller s own team is is another matter. there had been some discussion that they would be testifying in a closed session that would sort of augment what we were able to see in open session. do we know if there is any plan for a closed session at this point with anyone from mueller s team? my understanding is that there isn t at this point, but mr. mueller also did give us some additional time with himself. i think it s a great idea, as one of your previous guests noted, you know, something of this complexity, the amount of time that was spent, the length of the report, the amount of evidence underlying it, i think it s a good thing if we re able to get more information by having one of his deputies there who can assist and help move the hea