featherweight to mention here, the president s a crook. that s not really how it goes down. the way this is going to work does exactly as john said and as representative lue said, getting robert mueller to really focus his attention on just say what the report says in key parts. it s not the 448 pages. it s the you said that there were people who materially lied and some of them you brought charges against. how many other lied that you didn t bring charges against? i mean, i would really you can ask the question in a way that focuses the attention and just asks him to answer a fact question. and walking through each one of those ten primary instances of donald trump asking people to lie, fabricate evidence, just walking through those is i think not so dry. it s pretty powerful stuff. the other thing i would listen for is what he will not answer
investigation was unfinished and it was unfished because he said the fbi hadn t done a thorough investigation of the crime that we know to be collusion transported to a criminal conspiracy but they never finished that investigation. why is that, mr. special counsel? why didn t you do that investigation? did barr top you? did rosenstein stop you? give us an explanation. the country deserves it and needs to know why you didn t finish what you were told to do. these are big questions for the democratic house. it almost makes you wish if you believe that jan flannery is on to a good line of questioning, makes you wish some of the members that have committee are listening to you, sir. with that in mind, stay with me. i bring in california congressman ted lieu who serves on the judiciary committee which will question mueller next week. thank you for joining us, sir. thank you, ari. yes or no, have you read the report. i have. yes or no, do you think justin amash is basically right th
campaign which is part of a crime that michael cohen confessed to. as the house prepares for this mueller stand off, the issues here are broader than even that next set of subpoena skirmishes or whether the house ultimately opens a formal impeachment probe. i want to tell you tonight, the question is whether the mueller hearings will finally take up one of the most important documents of this admittedly gonzo political era and bring it to life for americans. because this report is damning. it is exclusivive. in some ways it is scary. we ve read it. i ve read it more than once. it details a foreign operation to kneecap our democracy as we know it and also finds no chargeable election conspiracy by the trump campaign and it also finds substantial evidence that president trump committed the crime of obstruction more than once in office. it s important stuff. but as with all things in politics and life, you have to
testimony on the public investigative materials and he tends to swat away questions that depend more sensitive information. so i m telling you tonight our reporting suggests mueller will sticking to that same plan next week and questions designed to get him beyond the mueller s report caref balancing act will probably get the mueller treatment. he can just quote from the report in answer to questions, part of what he did on his only public remarks on this probe to date. asset forth in the report after that investigation if we had had of confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. democrats are working to turn up the heat on team trump before this hearing begins revealing plans to subpoena some of the mueller report s biggest witnesses, guilty mike flynn, ousted attorney general jeff sessions and of course, son-in-law jared kushner. plus others linked to the hush mobe payments from the 2016
that s important. there s no greater proof you re uninterested in actual facts as a politician than ignoring the evidence, whether it s republican politicians to don t want to know the criminal evidence against trump in this report or from democrats who don t want to know how vigorous lis mueller investigated a potential conspiracy and wrote down in here there was insufficient evidence to charge him. members of congress acting like this predates this pre-trump era. and makes us think of fahrenheit height 911 which touched on congressional ignorance. john conyers admitting the patriot act passed because members didn t know what was in it and didn t read it. how could congress pass this act without even reading it. sit down, my son. we don t read most of the bills. do you really know what that would entail?