Volume 1, 193. He lied three times. Why didnt you charge him with a crime . I cant get into internal deliberations as to what or would not be you charged a lot of people from making false statements. Lets remember this. In 2016 the fbi did something they probably havent done before. They spied on two american citizens associated with the president ial campaign. George papadopoulos and carter page. Was carter page who then went to the g the fisa court. With mr. Papadopoulos they didnt go to the court. They used human sources. From about the moment papadopoulos joins the Trump Campaign you have all of these people All Around The World starting to swirl around him. Names like halper, downer, misfeud, thompson. Meeting in rome, london, all
kinds of places and the fbi even sent a lady posing as somebody else. Went by the name turk to spy on papadopoulos. In one of the meetings he is talking to a foreign diplomat and he says that the russians have dirt on clinton. That Diplomat Contacts the
leave the hearing room at this time. all right. so this is the first break that they re taking. the house judiciary committee, very, very explosive exchanges. very explosive information being released. there s a lot to discuss the initial statements from robert mueller in response to questioning from jerry nadler t committee chairman, his investigation nearly a two year investigation did not totally exonerate president trump despite what he has been saying. look, this has been well over an hour, almost actually an an hour and a half. and there have been a lot of questions in the weeds. but i think it s in some ways the democrats could have stopped stopped the hearing after the nadler exchange because in that exchange they got what they wanted and what they needed.
narrative answer that goes more than one sentence. he ll either answer yes or no or say i refer you to the report. that s it. one of the things from the nadler exchange at the very top, dana bash, the report does not exonerate president trump. exactly. other people especially republicans have made other points but right now i think that s the headline out of th this out of the hearing so far. that mueller says that his report does not exonerate the president despite the president claiming so. absolutely. that is by far the headline. the person and the exchange that came close to that i think it maybe it backs it up and gives evidence behind the headline was the exchange we saw at the end here with congresswoman karen bass of california. she had the same kind of very fast paced. she asked the question, he answered yes or no and what she got out of the exchange was the fact that his counsel the president actually directed his counsel to try to fire robert
robert mueller very well, you have written a book about him. what do you think? it s sort of hard to tell. i think i would expect robert mueller to be a little bit more combative than he has been during some of these exchanges. particularly the one with representative gohmert. this is not necessarily the robert mueller testify before congress before, but we have seen him you know, he performed very strongly in his opening remarks and that opening exchange with nadler. he has been shakier with some of these more complicated little bit more obscure questions with citations back to the report. and it s hard to know as jeffrey is saying whether that s a strategy on his part, where he s trying to be very, very precise in what his report is actually saying. it could also be we re seeing him shake off the rust of not testifying before congress in six years. did the chairman accomplish