amendment rights against testifying, including i think a fair reading in the footnotes suggests that possibly donald trump jr. invoked his fifth amendment right not to testify, which he has a right to do, but all those things prevented robert mueller from answering certain questions, and i think they would want to know what was it you were unable to answer because of these efforts to impede your investigation? and then use that information to go forward to conduct their own investigation and answer some of those unanswered questions. and harry, quickly, is there anything that prevents robert mueller from saying who invoked the fifth amendment? nothing prevents it. there will be a whole range of questions where he might try to advert to doj policy in a normal case, but this is no normal case, so the short answer is there is the griffin case, but i don t think it applies here. basically that s fair game, that
there will be also a closed session in our committee following his testimony in which we ll be able to ask questions of his staff that may not be suitable for open session. in terms of which of his staff, i can t go into those particulars at this point, but there are any number of areas that may involve redacted material where or that may involve a pending case where it s appropriate to ask those questions in closed session. barbara mcquade, it sounds like the intelligence committee will concentrate on volume i of the report. judiciary committee will work on volume ii of the report. yeah, i think that makes a lot of sense. and, you know, i know that a lot of people want to focus on volume ii which relates to obstruction of justice and that seems the most fruitful area of potential crimes for president trump. there is an awful lot of information in the conspiracy aspect in volume i. one of the really interesting things that robert mueller said in his report was there were gaps i
his testimony robert 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
this is the first time we ve seen a special counsel in the situation like this who has been so reluctant to speak publicly. yes. and congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the select committee on intelligence, told rachel in the last hour that the special counsel s office would not consider this a friendly subpoena, just a proforma subpoena. you subpoena me and i ll happily come in and testify. they wouldn t consider it to be that, so clearly robert mueller did not want to do this. he wanted to stick to his pledge to say nothing more other than what he wrote in the report. but as harry said, he is a dutiful guy and he s not the kind of man who is going to going to rebuff a dually issued subpoena from congress. let s listen to what chairman schiff told rachel in the last
hour. there will be also a closed session in our committee following his testimony in which we ll be able to ask questions of his staff that may not be suitable for open session. in terms of which of his staff, i can t go into those particulars at this point, but there are any number of areas that may involve redacted material where or that may involve a pending case where it s appropriate to ask those questions in closed session. barbara mcquade, it sounds like the intelligence committee will concentrate on volume i of the report. judiciary committee will work on volume ii of the report. yeah, i think that makes a lot of sense. and, you know, i know that a lot of people want to focus on volu volume ii which relates to obstruction of justice and that seems the most fruitful area of potential crimes for president trump. there is an awful lot of information in the conspiracy aspect in volume i. one of the really interesting things that robert mueller said in his report was there