know, if we could have exonerated the president we would have done so and there s just tremendous narrative value to hearing someone speak rather than directing americans to read a 448 page report which many people didn t. the other thing is congress getting back to congress remains the investigative body that s relevant here. they have a witness to question here and now we know there s a factual dispute between the attorney general and the special counsel. now, the attorney general has spoken and the special counsel has written the snitty letter that we know about. now it s time to hear from the special counsel, have him testify under oath and air this in front of congress. and on that point, your colleagues have done some reporting and they write this. president trump s close advisors are increasingly pining for mueller to be dragged before congress and subjected to questions about the outcome of his investigation. so is this the new republican
i wonder because it got me thinking when attorney general barr was testifying to the senate, he was asked about that letter i just mentioned in which we see mr. mueller angrily expressing his displeasure to barr, that barr has been misrepresenting his investigation. and in response to questions about that william barr said effectively he believed that wasn t mueller s own writing, that that had been mueller s staff that had been writing it. it was a snitty letter in his words, and he believed this was mueller s team not mueller himself. once mueller s team, the prosecutors who worked with him and the agents who worked with him had been sort of denigrated that way by the attorney general and denigrated of what seems to be an important point that raised the question for me as to whether or not not just mueller should be testifying but whether his team, the prosecutors and agents who worked on his
the mueller report said i can t make a prosecutorial recommendation of an indictment of a sitting president but i m going to preserve the evidence and congress should do something about this. i wonder, because it got me thinking when attorney general barr was testifying to the senate, he was asked about that letter i just mentioned in which we see mr. mueller angrily expressing his displeasure to barr, that barr has been misrepresenting his investigation. and in response to questions about that william barr said effectively he believed that wasn t mueller s own writing, that that had been mueller s staff that had been writing it. that it was a snitty letter in his words, and he believed this was probably mueller s team, not mueller himself. once mueller s team, the prosecutors who worked with him and the agents who worked with him, had been sort of denigrated that way by the attorney general and cited that way to explain