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To repeat what s in my report. laura, pick it up from there, what s best case scenario for democrats with witness mueller. the goal for democrats is to bring the mueller report to life. they are hopeful, even if mueller goes through and repeats what s in volume two, the ten examples of potential obstruction committed by the president, they re hopeful that because of the fact that the majority of the american public ha has not read this report, being able to watch mueller go through that is enough to sway public sentiment. on top of that, they are going to try to get more info out of him, and mueller and his team have said that the report is going to be his testimony but there are questions that they can ask concerning volume one, questions about the overall scope of the probe, why mueller s justification for the limited scope of it as well as questions about whether or not there was anyone from the white house or any people within the ....
General, professor nyu law and senior analyst at the atlantic. ron, one thing that s striking to me is just how reluctant of a witness mueller is. great washington post reporting over the weekend talking about the wi88 times he testified over the years, leaving the fbi, really sour exchanges he s had with both democrats and republicans in congress over those many, many hours of testimony. lisa monaco, his former staff at the fbi, says he goes there with a kind of dread. knowing that, what should we expect? i think we should expect he s going to control, modulate where he goes much more than the committee. i expect this could be a very frustrating afternoon and morning for both sides. on the one hand i think republicans are going to face a witness to show how absurd it is to define him as a partisan warrior against the president. the absurdity, i think, is going ....
Opinion. there is snow way a cooperating witness mueller declared has been completely cooperating is going to go in front of the congress in a public forum and say something different. chris i think the significant piece of this is the american people will get a significant picture. i don t think it relates to the legal part of this. i think it relates to michael cohen and say, wow, this is the amount of dirt he saw and is willing to talk about. the story is public. its not a sort of federal court. i think you are 100% right that s what makes it scary, this will come down reflective of the court of political opinion. how big a deal could michael cohen be? a huge deal. look. this is a the first time we will ....
His corrosive partisanship. why now? well, this is a week where it s become undeniable that donald trump is not making simply some sort of rhetorical attack with regard to misusing the justice department or learning on the job as president. donald trump s literally trying to get his domestic opponents indicted while his lawyers are demanding an end to the probe into his white house. while also installing a staffer as now basicing attorney general who has criticized the mueller probe repeatedly and pushing to kpa campaign and oust and prosecute another witness.mueller probe r pushing to campaign and oust and prosecute another witness.who h probe repeatedly and pushing to campaign and oust and prosecute another witness. they re saying we re seeing a different standard that applies to his enemies. all this that comes after a report that he tried to fire bob public schooler as ....
In that new york times bomb shell this week it was donald trump s former white house counsel don mcgahn who was the key person stopping trump in trying to order the illegal prosecution of his opponents, hillary clinton and a key witness in the mueller probe, james comey. bob mueller would know that but donald trump wasn t know what else mcgahn has dished on. as he was leaving the white house he did clash with trump and trump blamed him for mueller s entire appointment. he doesn t know what elbob mcga has said. he was part of firing of mike flynn, the firing of james comey. jeff sessions decision not to recuse, these other attempts to fire bob mueller and the new report that trump wanted to prosecute clinton and comey. ....