in the audience that you may not be guaranteed your seat if you leave the hearing room at this time. so a five-minute break in the room. well take them at their word that it will indeed be five minutes. mr. mueller has been excused. the questioning will be suspended. brian williams here with nicolle walla wallace, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, former veteran fbi official is part of our coverage as well. there s emerging dos and don ts here. chairman nadler had a very effective approach with special counsel mueller taking into what the president has said over and over and over again, that the
and it s paralyzed this committee and this house. as a side note, every week i leave my family and kids, the most important things to me to come to this place because i believe this place is a place where we can actually do things and help people. 6 1/2 years ago, i came here to work in the house for the people of the ninth district in this country. we accomplished a lot in those first six years on a bipartisan basis with my friends on this dias with me today. however, because of the majority of the dislike of this president and the investigation has caused us to accomplish nothing except talk about the problems of our country while our border is on fire and in crisis and everything else is stopped. this hearing is long overdue. we ve had truth for months. no american conspired to throw our election. what we need today is to let that truth bring us confidence. and i hope, mr. chairman, closure. with that, i yield back. thank you, mr. collins. i will now introduce today s witness. rob
colloquy, a continuous involvement of don mcgahn of him responding to the president s entreati entreaties. he did not want to put himself in the middle of that. he did not want to have a role in asking the attorney general to fire the special counsel, correct? i again refer you to the report and the way it is characterized in the report. thank you. at volume 2, page 85, it states that he didn t want to have a role in trying to fire the attorney general. so at this point, i will yield back. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mueller well, first let me ask unanimous consent, mr. chairman, to submit this arti e article, robert mueller unmasked, for the record. without objection. now, mr. mueller, who wrote
on a brief meeting at the trump tower that produced nothing to ignoring the clinton campaign s own ties to fusion gps why some view your report as a pretty one-sided attack on the president? i tell you, this is still outside my purview. i would just note finally that i guess this is by chance, by coincidence, that the things left out of the report tended to be favorable to the president. my time is expired. thank you. mr. mueller, i d like to get us back on track here. your investigation found that president trump directed white house counsel don mcgahn to fire you, isn t that correct? true. and the president claimed that he wanted to fire you because you had supposed conflicts of interest, isn t that correct? true. now, you had no conflicts of interest that required your removal. isn t that a fact? that s correct. and, in fact, don mcgahn
he engaged in obstruction of justice crimes? i would have to check on that. i m not certain. mr. mueller, we are grateful you re here to express your investigation and findings. reviewing your work, i think anyone else who described what is in your report would have been criminally prosecuted. your report is vital to this committee and the american people because no one is above the law. i now recognize the gentleman from georgia, mr. collins. thank you, mr. chairman. and we re moving on. i reiterate the five-minute rule. there will be a question in a moment but i want to lay a foundation. i ll talk slowly. i m said that i talk fast. i will talk slowly. thank you, sir. in your press conference you testified that any testimony from your office would not go beyond your report. we chose these words carefully, the work speaks for itself. i will not provide anything beyond that. do you stand by that statement?