wednesday, july 17th. this is big news. word broke just a few minutes ago in a joint statement from the chairman of the house intelligence and house judiciary committees, congressman adam schiff of california and congressman jerrold nadler of new york. this is their statement which they ve just released, and i ll tell you just been handed to me so i am reading this as you are. today house judiciary committee chairman jerrold nadler and house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff announced special counsel robert mueller has agreed to testify pursuant to a subpoena before the house judiciary committee and house intelligence committee in open session on wednesday, july 17th. in announcing the testimony, nadler and schiff hereby release this joint statement. pursuant to subpoenas issued by the judiciary and intelligence committees tonight, the special counsel has agreed to testify before both committees in open session on july 17th. americans have demanded to hear directly from th
questions that mueller ought to be asked about his report. a number of a number of journalistic efforts have been made along those same lines. that s a good question from you. we just got other good ones from barbara mcquade a few minutes ago. i mean, i have preparing to moderate 20 different candidates in the first democratic debate of 2020 has been stressful. i would prefer this to prepping to question robert mueller. yes. yes. well, we re going to be joined by someone who is going to question robert mueller in one of those hearings in just a moment. that s great. you ll be great tomorrow night, rachel. thank you, lawrence. you can have my office. okay. thank you. okay. bye. thanks. well, what do lindsey graham and donald trump jr. have in common? we re going to discuss this later in the show. they believe that donald trump, they believe him whenever donald trump denies a rape accusation. that s something they have in common. and they have both travelled a very stra
it s been since mid-april since we got the we got the mostly unredacted version of the mueller report released to the public, but, again, the breaking news tonight is that between the judiciary committee and the intelligence committee in the house, they have now subpoenaed robert mueller s testimony and he has agreed to testify. as congressman schiff just told us, the special counsel s office would not look upon this as a friendly subpoena. this is not one of those things where you sometimes hear in these congressional negotiations a witness or an entity that s been called to testify or hand over documents said i m super happy to do it, but just for my own, you know, cya purposes or just because of my own professional responsibilities or just so i can explain this to some other people for some other way, please give me a subpoena but i ll be fine, i ll definitely show up. this does not appear to be that type of negotiation. this will not be viewed as a friendly subpoena by the specia
mueller s testimony to two committees on the same day. do you expect july 18th to be a whole new day in the congress on the question of impeachment? it may be a whole new day in the country, depending on what emerges, but it is an important step in this journey where we are simply trying to gather all the information and present the full and complete story to the american people wherever that may lead us. congressman hakeem jeffries, thank you very much for joining us. really appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. joining us now is democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. he s a member of the senate judiciary committee and a former prosecutor. senator blumenthal, your reaction to robert mueller apparently agreeing to accept service of this subpoena to testify on july 17th. there s no question this step is a major historic breakthrough, and i think in answer to your last question to the congressman, july 18th is going to be the beginning of a new day for america in
department and certain matters are ongoing. your office, moreover, admirably limited public comment while the special counsel s office work was ongoing. you ve also explained you prefer for the special counsel s office s written work to speak for itself. nevertheless, they conclude, the american public wishes to hear directly from you about your investigation and conclusions. 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 really appreciate you making time to join 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