frank, if you look at the ripple if you look at the mueller statement as a pebble thrown in the pond, that ripple rippled to the oval to donald trump, it rippled to congress where some of the regrets spilled out to the public about not seizing the richness of the narrative told in the mueller report, not seizing the airwaves, not telling the story and reading from his report and focusing the public s attention on all of the horrible conduct and unflattering anecdotal evidence in the mueller report. if you take those nine minutes and i m not good at math, but we re going to have a factor of i don t know what, someone good at math will tweet it to me, he will be on tv for five hours. you take that ripple and draw it out. we don t know what we don t know about the effect of wednesday s testimony. so the time is on the side of
russian attacks on our election will do to his political standing. from mueller s allies it s a concern that mueller, who sticks to the facts and only the facts, will outmatched by the tribal politics of this moment. and for democrats the knowledge that the long-awaited testimony offers them their last and only chance to gain traction on a public message about donald trump s criminal conduct in thwarting the investigation and the trump team s 150 unexplained contacts with russians. jerry nadler, chairman of house judiciary and adam schiff, chairman of house intels, the two committees before which mueller will appear, weighed in. the president and attorney general lied to the american people about what s in the mueller report. i believe when people hear what s in the mueller report, we will be in a position to begin holding the president accountable. that s a pretty damning set of facts that most american people are not familiar with.
conference table in the hoover building when he s not happy, and he will win that dispute. so they need to be ready for that as well. annie karni, your paper had some great reporting out today and some great analysis of where the real opportunities are to get some questions. i read a few of those questions at the top. but there are still unanswered and unexplored areas around again, i think your paper s done some reporting on the two letters that we know about that mueller sent to back after the report came out. just talk about how vital that period is between mueller concluding his report, turning it over with that sort of nonconclusion, conclusion around obstruction. and when the actual report came out, there was a period when mueller s investigators were known to express some discomfort to allies in congress who would have appeared to have written a couple letters to barr himself, to have at least one phone call with barr that barr was asked
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about. just talk about that period where we know mueller was uncomfortable or some people on mueller s team expressed discomfort with how are b.a. was talking about his findings. that period was incredibly important to how the report they spent two years on got framed. and mueller came out with a quick letter in which kind of set the narrative that there was no crime here committed, this is where trump got the no obstruction, no collusion rallying cry. and that set the narrative. the report came out later but the stage had already been set. mueller met with him twice. in mueller s only public statement to date is the ten-minute statement on the final days of special counsel when he gave that quote you just played saying if there had not been a crime committed, we would have said so. that seemed to be an implicit corrective for barr to blame trump s attempts of firing the special counsel out of frustration, not any criminal