you got me. [ scoffs ] she s an insurance lady. and i suppose this baker sells insurance, too? progressive protects your pets like you do. you can see the secret life of pets 2 only in theaters. the secret life of pets 2 but super poligrip gives him a tight seal. snacking can mean that pieces get stuck under mike s denture. to help block out food particles. so he can enjoy the game. super poligrip. one of those nights i had a whole other show planned. but these things these things happen. again, we re covering the breaking news tonight that a subpoena actually i believe it may be two subpoenas. have been sent to robert s. mueller iii, the special counsel. the reason i think it s multiple subpoenas is because of the way that a press release is phrased from judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler and intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. their joint statement tonight
limited public comment while the special counsel s office work was ongoing. you also explained you prefer for the special counsel s office s written work to speak for himself. nevertheless, they conclude the american public wishes to hear directly from you. preserving t we expect you will join before our committees as scheduled. joining us now is congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. sir, i appreciate you taking time to be with us in the wake of this big news. you bet. good to be with you. so let me ask first about this phrasing and the letter that you have sent tonight to special counsel mueller. we consistently communicated our committees intentions to issue these subpoenas if necessary and we now understand it is necessary to do so. should we see this as a friendly subpoena that robert mueller believed had to be issued before
with it. is that your understanding of it? that s my understanding. at the end of the day, bob mueller is a company man. he had expressed publicly his reluctance to testify, indicated when he gave his remarks a few weeks ago that that was the first time the american people would likely hear from him. we as house democrats led by chairman nadler and chairman schiff have made clear that we believe the issues connected to the mueller report were so serious that it was important for the special counsel to tell his story publicly to the american people. we were determined to bring that about. thanks to the leadership of our two chairmen, united behind the house democratic caucus and our objectives, we ll be able to bring that about on july 17th. do you expect there to be a kind of working agreement between the two chairmen about what the two hearings will cover? for example, will you tend to leave volume i of the report to the intelligence committee and
about the latest accusation of rape against donald trump. but first to the breaking news of the night. robert mueller has been subpoenaed to testify to the house judiciary committee and the house intelligence committee on the same day. a month ago robert mueller delivered a nine-minute public statement about the mueller report that he hoped would be his last public words about it. i hope and expect this to be the only time that i will speak to you in this manner. i am making that decision myself. no one has told me whether i can or should testify or speak further about this matter. july 17th, 9:00 a.m. is when you will next hear robert mueller speak. chairman jerry nadler of the house judiciary committee, chairman adam schiff of the house intelligence committee, made a joint announcement tonight saying special counsel robert s. mueller iii has agreed to testify pursuant to a subpoena before both the house judiciary committee and house
but our predominant interest is being able to shed light on this investigation for the american people in open session with bob mueller himself. and that s going to be the predominant focus of our time with his team. you mentioned that mueller s office would not see this as a friendly subpoena, that he did not want to testify. is that also true of his staff and will they be testifying under subpoena or are those appearances voluntary? i don t think either he or his staff are eager to come before the congress. i think they are doing so because they re going to honor the subpoena that we ve issued. in terms of whether there is a separate required subpoena, i can t comment on that in terms of his staff, but you know, clearly this is something i think from his perspective as a prosecutor, he s reluctant to come, as a prosecutor ordinarily would be. but as bob mueller was the first to point out in his report, he did not make a traditional prosecutorial judgment.