plan. they want to poke holes in the credibility of the special counsel team and raise questions about alleged bias by the special counsel, so all of the negotiations or the format really just a preview of tomorrow s very dramatic testimony as democrats hope this reshapes the narrative and the public understanding about alleged criminal conduct in the white house but others are downplaying the impact this will have and republicans hoping it does what the president has hoped, to show in his view that he was exonerated. manu raju on capitol hill. stand by. i want to bring in our crime and justice reporter shimon procku pez. why does he want the deputy by his side. he wants to protect mule tore give him cover. so they re hoping to have they were hoping to have him sit there and answer some of the questions that the committee members were going to have and what we re seeing here from the letter yesterday that the department of justice published from mueller asking for guidance about
s. and his lover lisa page destroyed after we requested them. i won t be watching reporter: and while mule ser front and center in front of the cameras, trump s schedule is currently wide open. the focus on mueller in washington may face blow back from fiscal conservatives and pass through congress and win the president s signature. white house officials are working over time to raise the spending deal by $320 billion over the next two years. it is a good deal under the circumstances. that is the way i would put it. reporter: and with an eye on 2020, the president is ramping up his attacks on four democratic freshman congress women. this tlaib from michigan, right. that is a great state. we won michigan. reporter: telling a group of young conservatives on tuesday
president trump is described as irritated by the public testimony. with us here in the situation room, new york city mayor bill de blasio, running for the democratic party nomination. thank you for coming in. so what are you expecting from mueller s testimony tomorrow? i think we ll hear from the truth. i think mule ser a guy that is respected across this country and at the press conference he was trying to tell us something more. that was clear. so i think some of the questions will give us an opportunity here, maybe a deeper thinking. so what specifically would you want him to answer? what do you want to learn tomorrow? what do you think the american public should be hearing? i think the obvious question, if it were not for the restrictions that he was told were placed on him, would he have seen a path to prosecution? and i think the report from my read of it, the answer is yes. but i think they re going to try to get him to say it out loud. the department of justice guid
they need to have somebody testify. they need to bring this to the american public. you ve read all 400-plus pages and renato read the pages and most people in the country have not and what you need to do is bring it to life. so mule ser a witness that is dissident and won t go beyond the report but he ll be able to tell the story if the democrats have the hearing the right way and by that i mean they encourage him to go through the details of what is in the report and let the american public hear that from somebody who is a very credible witness. they re also going to try to get don mcgahn and hope hicks and those people would be very important. and so maybe the pro-impeachment group would back off just a little bit if the hearings start and continue. speaking of impeachment, tensions have been high between chairman nadler, who would
to stand up for faith-based adoption agencies. attorney general s comments on mueller s report could be released today. and we already know what s not in it. you know, it s been a lot of focus on the russian collusion. contact with the russians. contact with russian. russia. russia. collusion with russia. that s chris matthews on friday. russian collusion. one of the five things that didn t happen in the mueller investigation. fox news contributor and washington examiner chief political correspondent bu byron york is here. no one charged with conspiracy with russia. that is correct. first of all we have to say we don t know what s in the report. could be a lot of interesting information but you re right, we can tell some things are not there because we know that mule