just don t think we are going to see anything particularly new from robert mueller. i would not have picked up on that because there s quite a disagreement about the value of mueller testifying. here s a taste of that. how many bytes at the bites at the apple do you get? has the opportunity to convey that all the evidence that he elected down the collected. chris: mollie, given that these be in the report is out and the fact that mueller has indicated he does not want to testify and is going to stick to the four corners of the 448 pages of the report, how much impact do you expect this to hae when it does happen. the impact was not going to go in democratic favor. you have the report out. everybody knows what s in there. give the chance republicans ask questions that they would not get answers to but answers like why did you not investigate the russian dossier that turned out not to be true?
good to be with you. first question to you, is it important that bob mueller testify before your committee? what do you want to hear from him and will it come up tonight? it s absolutely critical he testify. he put his report out. there are a lot of americans that have not read the report or sought out the report. i see this as part of the process. him coming in front of the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee to tell us about the report and for me, i m specifically looking at the ten instances of obstruction of justice that he laid out against the president because i think that s most likely to be the subject of an impeachment inquiry. do you think that will be a point of distinction on the stage tonight and tomorrow? perhaps. i don t know where everybody is in terms of open ing an impeachment inquiry. there may be various opinions over there. in congress, i ve said we should open an impeachment inquiry. there s a greater cost to the country of doing nothing.
bigger than politics. that s where patriots come from and that s what s profiles in courage are, when is women like margaret chase smith and say this is yong, mccarthy. i don t care if you send me home packing and i never get re-elected again. at some point we have to the make a decision the republic and the values of the republic or do we let the president continue to embarrass us. bill barr talked about eroding the institutions. no president has done more damage in two years than all of them combined for 240 years than this one has. that s my opinion. but that s how i see it. i wouldn t necessarily go that far at this point. it doesn t have to be an either/or. the problem that i ve had with speaker pelosi, she was throwing water on this before we got the report out. that was the problem. she has basically been discouraging and sending out a chilling effect to the entire house saying no, don t take this position. i don t believe she s playing a
one thing i will tell you, and i worked for three directors. bob mueller i think does it as well as anybody ever could. the fact that he got up and made a testimony and a brief statement about his report is extremely significant to me because over the years that i worked with him, even when we would go up to congress, the senate, the house intelligence committee, the national security council, he would only go when it was so significant he really wanted people to listen. and i can tell you the key thing that i took away from this, chuck, yesterday was, look, he put the report out. he let everybody talk. i think he wanted to clarify exactly what he meant by it. as a lot of your guests have said tonight, he enclosure lcle out to the congress to say there s something here that you really need to look at. that s the significance of him coming out for that nine-minute news conference yesterday, chuck. so you did view it that in his own way he s saying this was a referral to congress?
reinvestigation. they want infrastructure. they want healthcare. they want immigration solutions. i don t know why the democrats haven t moved on the way the republicans learn to move on when they got stung in 1998. sean: they are the ones that changed the law though, mark. this is interesting. nadler didn t want ken starr s report out. he was working under a very different statute called the independent counsel s statute. now we changed it. it s interesting the attorney general didn t have to reveal one word of mueller s report, but he did anyway to be transparent. that s absolutely correct. the nation felt so jarred by ken starr s report he said we don t want to have the independent statute again. we want a more confidential, less political, less public process and of course now the democrats are cutting against that. and i think they are cutting against their own interests as well. sean: i think they should keep doing what they are doing. working out so great so far for them a