want to try to address first, and it s about this issue of mueller s deputy. today we learned that in addition to special counsel robert mueller, there was also a deputy special counsel. there was? aaron zebley had previously been described as mueller s chief of staff in the special counsel s office. indeed, chief of staff is the same job title that zebley had at fbi. when robert mueller was fbi director, aaron zebley was his chief of staff at the fbi. and we thought that s what his role was in the special counsel s office, but today zebley was described as the deputy special counsel. in this statement from mueller s new spokesperson. aaron zebley was the deputy special counsel and had day-to-day oversight of the investigations conducted by the special counsel s office. oh. he will accompany special counsel mueller to the wednesday hearings, as was discussed with the committees more than a week ago. that statement today by mueller s new spokesperson.
it had to happen today of all days, right? i mean, even if tomorrow wasn t going to be robert mueller s testimony in congress, there s already a lot going on, right? i mean, today, for example, just tonight we just got a new secretary of defense. another lobbyist. so now there s a lobbyist for coal companies running the epa, a lobbyist for oil companies running the interior department, a guy who ran the lobbying efforts for pharmaceuticals running health and human services and now a guy from raytheon running the department of defense. perhaps you are noticing a theme here. the president literally gave in his big re-election kickoff rally, literally gave this speech about how he was destroying the unholy alliance of lob gists and special interests who were bleeding our country dry. we ve now got lobbyists running each of their respective agencies in the cabinet. including the pentagon.
they re making these decisions. it seems like the judiciary committee won t swear mr. zebley in. they ll allow him to advise mr. mueller but not answer his own questions. the intelligence committee will handle it different. obviously it s a little unusual to have a second witness at the last moment. yeah, look, it s unusual. we re all guessing as to what s going on but i think fundamentally it s not going to kay very much. we expect mueller to go in tomorrow and do what he said, which is he s going to stick to the four corners of his report. the question is are the democrats going to grandstand in the house or are they going to actually get at the heart of this and say to mueller, tell us what your report actually says. because i think if the american people hear what the report actually says as opposed to the spin around it, it s going to be a devastating day for the president. this is a bit of a sensitive question. and you can brush me back either of you if you think it s inappro
as the committees understood it. at least here is how the intelligence committee chairman adam schiff explained it to reporters today. will mr. zebley be participating tomorrow as a witness or as counsel for mr. mueller? the special counsel s office has made it clear for some time that they would like to have him present, they would like to allow him to answer questions. we want this hearing to be about director mueller. we are in discussions with them about the role of his counsel and those discussions are ongoing. i expect that he will be there, but we would like to make sure that the degree that he participates that it may be on technical issues or other matters. we don t want him as a substitute for mueller s voice. was this a last-minute request? no, they have made this request for some time. we re willing to try to accommodate, but like many things about the hearing, it has
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