obstruction of justice is a crime to begin with. why do we care as a society if people try to muck around with the criminal justice system? and that did happen here. as i explained in the book, it s congress core responsibility, prerogative, to do this kind of oversight. this is not an impeachment hearing. this is core oversight to ensure that the office of the presidency doesn t get too powerful because when that happens, individual rights are what goes next regardless of political party. democrats, republicans, independents. we need a government that is not too powerful for us to maintain our own freedoms. again, let me go over, againing what we know about how lawmakers are preparing. they re doing mock hearings. watching mueller s previous testimonies. they re coordinating their lines of questioning so there s not a much of overlap. again, they have a confined amount of time. a number of lawmakers on these committees we know are not trained lawyers. is there anything else that th
hearings. yeah, that s really interesting. what we ve seen is they ve done mock questioning and so have the republicans. and they really meticulously prepared for any possibility that might come up. to the extent that even certain staffers on the committee are pretending to be mueller himself and preparing for the answers he might give and how the democrats can rebutt those or press him further or elicit more information out of. that it s important to remember that mueller is also going to be very prepared and he has kind of a sherpa who is guiding him through this process. and he is a very experienced hand on the hill. and on and this kind of liaison between the hill and doj. he was a top counsel on the judiciary committee for a long time. he knows everyone in congress. he s been in negotiations with the hill for a number of weeks now if not months about kind of the limits of mueller s testimony. so depending on what has been agreed upon, we could see kind of a limited, a more lim
so what we re seeing is they ve done mock questioning, and so have the republicans, actually, and they ve really meticulously prepared for any possibility that might come up. to the extent that even certain staffers on the committee are pretending to be mueller himself and preparing for the possible answers that he might give and how democrats can actually then rebut those or press him further or elicit more information out of that. but it s important to remember that mueller is also going to be very prepared, and he has kind of a sherpa who is guiding him through this process named jonathan urowski. and he is a very experienced hand on the hill and this kind of liaison between the hill and doj. he was top counsel on the judiciary committee for a long time. he knows everyone in congress. he has been in negotiations with the hill for a number of weeks now, if not months about kind of the limits of mueller s testimony. depending on what has been agreed upon, we could see kind of a limite
usually the press gets prepped until the last minute and prep sessions over the weekend and he s got experience counsel and can guide him through it. and we ll be, you know, doing mock questioning with him. they might have done some mock questioning. he s sitting there facing the panel, at least staff members, right? well, frankly, looks a lot like a deposition probably. won t be any members there. just be staff. the benefit, of course, it s private and you won t get bad sound bites on tv from political level. the negative is you have staff who can formulate questions more skillfully than a lot of the united states senators. ouch. zing. if you re but if you re defending them, they can probably dig in and ask better follow-ups. lots of times in public hearings it s about the statement and not the question.
told us they would be red kwu, they had done their prep work, they had been through mock questioning before, and that certainly sounded like dr. carson had had some practice and did his homework. heather: mike emmanuel, great to see you. thank you. here with reaction to all of this, thome, the republican political analyst and executive vice president of jamestown. let s start with you and ben carson, not, maybe, a normal pick or natural pick to head up hud. one thing he s passionate about, trying to fix inner cities and urban america. do you think he can make changes that president obama didn t seem to address in his administration? i don t think the president didn t address it, i think he tried his hardest. the problem that ben carson is probably going to have the same problem donald trump is going to have, we need to invest in the infrastructure bill. they have to depend on the party to pass it. that s going to be the hard part, getting the budget hawks to pass a trillion dollar