if the goal is to get information or testimony, our chair is failing. if the goal is to political theater, we re winning. congressman collins there and nadler before that. how could this back and forth, all of this rhetoric, how could it affect negotiations over bob mueller s testimony? bob mueller has committed to testify. i think he is largely going to stay within the four corners of this thing. i think we re going to see the doj try to constrain mueller. the white house is going to imply apply increasing pressure. i think they are concerned about members of mueller s team who are going to be called before closed door sessions of the intel committees. that s got the white house very nervous. how would the doj constrain bob mueller? we have heard the attorney general come out and very subtly, hint, hint, if bob didn t want to go through this, we would certainly support him. behind the scenes, i think there s pressure attempts going