i don t know that democrats or republicans going into this side robert mueller or even thought that would be an element of this hearing, that robert mueller was struggling to really take on some of these questions and answer them. harris: you know, emily, how is mueller s credibility holding up at this point? you are making some comments as we were watching. emily: i think that s what the republicans had gone after. frankly, it s been eroded. the overarching theme i saw today, was this erosion of what we perceived as the commander of a two-year investigation, to kind of be reduced to this feeble man that frankly had zero command of the report or the content, with a self admission that it was a segmented investigation? so republicans are counting on it. they are pouncing on the credibility both of him as well as the investigation, because it s now and admitted staff-that investigation. democrats are focusing on the attempts, alleged attempts, at obstruction and the but for. the ol
saying, trey gowdy, that obstruction is the more fertile ground with this investigation. however, with regard to collusion, the oversight of the equation is pretty rich. when you start to look at how all this got laid out, the collusion, the meetings that happened with professor mifsud. why wasn t he investigated? why didn t they look intimate? is he western intelligence or russian intelligence? why wasn t a globs-off relationship with mifsud? you think about a downer, putting out these little feelings for papadopoulos, for carter page along the way. i would imagine that the folks on your side of the aisle are going to have quite a few questions about that. and perhaps the nonanswers from mueller will speak volumes there. he s going to say that s not in his preview. kenny buck, former federal prosecutor, they had an extra question for the democratic mantra was the president is not above the law, no one is above the law.
impeachment was not a part of my purview. it s interesting to note, would he go back to the ken starr investigation, there were 11 articles of impeachment found. not only that, but in his statement on may 29th, which i think he teed up he was trained to help the committee, he teed up impeachment for them they are better than he does in his report. he is very clear, saying that in our system it s not for federal prosecutors to be the ones to regulate misconduct by the president. that the constitution as another vehicle for that, and another level of responsibility. it was clear that he was talking about impeachment. bret: also, trey gowdy, chris wallace from fox news sunday. mr. chairman, your thoughts on the day? he said he didn t want to come, now we know why he didn t want to come.
nancy pelosi issued a statement. i think it was yesterday. even before this hearing, that indicated they will continue to investigate about these allegations. about allegations of other misdeeds by president trump. you know, you can do a lot of things short of impeachment that can mobilize your base and maybe shift some persuadable voters over to your side, by pointing out things that you say the president did wrong. this will be part of the election campaign. i certainly don t think that you got any fuel today for impeachment. to the degree that you had robert mueller saying things, he was simply ratifying what was already in the report. there was no new evidence from him. i just want to follow-up on congressman gaudi. this was on page 2, point 1, i m going to get some news out of this thing for this is w. the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian
they lead. i.e., potentially impeachment proceedings, or at least investigation. are the american people going to be inclined to want to see more of this investigation after today? or will they agree with the cbs poll be put up earlier that said 53% of americans say it s time to drop this? that it s time to move on? what does nancy pelosi say when she watches this and gathers with her members after all of this? is she going to say it s time to move on, or did they get what they want to connect what about the g.o.p.? what are the things that kept prodding at, whether he had looked into the origins of this in the station. when it came to christopher steele on the dossier, when it came to all of that, he kept saying bret: fusion gps. martha: exactly, glenn simpson. out of my purview, that wasn t part of my investigation. parts of that seem too obvious would be part of the report. but when they tried to nail down things, they seem to fall outside of his purview. a lot of questions