What’s there to negotiate? The appearance of comity or the appearance of “resistance”?
“The American people have a right to hear what the man who did the investigation has to say and we now know we certainly can’t rely on the attorney general who misrepresented his conclusions … So he is going to testify.”
Well said.
I am assuming that Mueller is still on staff. If so, why? If Barr tries to block him from appearing could he just not resign and appear as a private citizen?
Slow-walking Jerry is still slow-walking:
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler said Friday that Mueller would not testify this week, as he initially planned, but that the two parties are in talks.
“He will come at some point. If it’s necessary, we will subpoena him and he will come,” Nadler told the Hill.
Enough talking. Just issue the damn subpoena!
Things snowball…
The last I heard, he was still on staff but would be there for only a few weeks. I presume that, so long as it’s weeks and not months, it’s not oroductive for him to resign early.
Well, a date, time, and length of appearance to start with,. Also,topics to be discussed and preparations Mueller would need to make. If the House can get a friendly Mueller before them, then they do better not to piss him off. There is no opportunity for the House to get a friendly Barr before the, so they’re free to piss him off. But Mueller is different. The House willl want a friendly Mueller before them.
Mueller is a straight-arrow guy. The House needs to deal with him in a straight-arrow way.
This may end up being anticlimactic for Democrats. I can see Mueller being doggedly noncommittal in accommodating Dem attempts to tar Trump with conspiracy and obstruction charges. He has emphasized he feels it unfair to charge a President with crimes he cannot defend himself against in a proper legal forum such as a trial. He won’t gladly do for a committee what he wouldn’t do in his report. Getting meaningful answers definitively implicating Trump in crimes will be like pulling teeth.
Certainly, and, if it does, one hopes Schiff and his colleagues find other ways to keep up the pressure.
Imagine a mountain of information…held back by a pebble.
The pebble may seem insurmountable…and I am not even sweating the loosening of it…because Trump is just too dirty to pull this off. He is running the Roy Cohn S.O.P. and mouthing off as usual… a prisoner on fake parole…a mental patient on out-patient furlough…who WILL be removed from office.
What I have always been interested in (as a historian) is what happens when the pebble GOES and the information on Trump pours out like the water in the film “2012”…
People get invigoration and optimism they did not know they still had. Even some of the Debbie Downers who will disagree with this post.
And you can’t undo it.
They might, but at some point the GOP’s plea to move on will start to sink in if each successive Dem “moment” comes and goes without piercing Trump’s armor.
Thank you Congressman.
I like your slam of the AG too.
Over on emptywheel speculation is that Mueller is staying on to wrap up the Stone and Miller cases as well as that “mystery foreign gov’t-owned” appellant.
Take it for what you will, but there’s quite a few folks over there who’ve practiced on both sides of the Federal courts so I often find the comments illuminating.
Some people call this “Stupid Watergate” and the further along things go, the more apt that seems.
In many ways, the parallels are uncanny. I keep thinking public opinion will be one of them.
One difference is that back in 1974 the Democrats in Congress had courage. Today, not so much.
But he will not lie. I think we can count on that. He will not lie.
A skilled interrogator can easily disclose what happened with a witness that will not lie. No need for Mueller’s opinions or legal judgements… just the facts. He won’t share his opinions, anyway. But he will not withhold the facts from Congress. And no teeth extractions will be necessary.
Sh*t like this is why we need a downvote button.
Hey thanks for the attempted de-railment. I was discussing public opinion, not what your russian paymasters want.
Go get some borscht you tool.
This is my worry too. We put all our hopes in the Mueller Report, and it was a fizzle. I worry hearing from him in person may be a big nothing, too. Dems need to handle this very strategically.
thanks to the good @drtv …
Another is that they ALSO had GOP support. Sam Ervin AND Howard Baker TOGETHER in the senate. Not the judiciary chair Lindsay (R-Toadie) telling Donnie Junior to ignore a subpoena issued by the GOP chair of another committee. Yeah, blame the Dems.