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.
welcome becomack, with two before robert mueller testifies about the findings of the russia probe, republicans are planning their strategies to best suit president trump s image in 2020. the most ardent voices are urging caution against an aggressive confrontation, others plan to go full throttle with trump s claims of a corrupt investigation. asking when did mueller know there was no coordination and no conspiracy by the president in hopes that mueller can deliver the conclusion that the investigation found insufficient evidence to charge trump with wrong doing. democrats are planning on mueller giving credence to the claim of an unlawful presidency. chairman of the house judiciary committee had this to say on fox news yesterday. i think there is very substantial, well, the report presents very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and
by. i m here all day wednesday for the mueller hearings. we can do it at 5:00. i will be here to co-anchor the address to the nation where pence said what he would do. the relationship with his supporter is as close as r and pence said as anyone ever had. you have a chance to say it right now. silence. well, say don t do it again, major says. major. what was that? this is the core of trumpism in the republican party. it requires you always break every moral boundary, it requires you always bend the knee, it requires donald trump never be wrong. it s the great leader theory of the republican party where it is a cult. it is something that s not ideological or political. it is an adoration cult by these people. they will not say a word.
and we re already seeing that with some candidates going to those states and reaching out to those voters. i want to turn back to the squad and here we are monday, not dying down at all. he continues to tweet and comment about four democratic lawmakers. there has been a reporting over the weekend about his own insidersmenti insiders wanting him to reel it in and pull it back. what is the reaction inside the white house. there were discussions. this has been that theme within the entire party, trying to tie the four progressive congresswoman. saying this is where the democratic party is going towards socialism, towards increased government, but trump just took it in a way that his aides were not wanting it to go