Special counsel Robert Mueller is eager to avoid the politics swirling around his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia’s 2016 influence efforts and doesn’t want to testify publicly on Capitol Hill about his findings, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said Thursday.
Nadler and the committee have been in discussions with Justice Department officials about Mueller’s appearance for weeks, after initially proposing the special counsel appear on May 15. While Republicans have concerns about the origins of the investigation into the Trump campaign, Democrats have wanted to push Mueller on his findings, particularly on his decision not to make any determination as to whether Trump obstructed justice, after outlining several episodes of potential obstruction of the investigation into his campaign.
“I think it's important that he can make his statement,” Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told ABC News. “He can do that with a lengthy statement to explain his report, and respond to questions [in private].” “It is one thing to have him testify in public, it's another if the Justice Department sits behind him and tells him he can't answer this question, or that question, or do more than just read his own report. That won't fly.”
What does he want to hide from the people something not right if he won't make him pay the money back
He provided a report of over 400 pages. Can’t they read? He should not testify, these people are ridiculous. Enough already. They are making a laughing stock of our country and should be ashamed.
A President obstructed justice. It's political! So disappointed in him.
I never thought I'd be disappointed in him, but I am. Big time.
Them let him testify in private. Then review what he said with him; asking him to choose any statements he would allow to be public. RepJerryNadler RepAdamSchiff SpeakerPelosi
Zzzzzzz...
dems must stop flogging a dead horse n start working for us we the ppl. the truth: NO AMERICAN WAS CHARGED W/COLLUSION/OBSTRUCTION. NO CHARGES, NO CRIMES, CASE CLOSED--ITS A DEAD HORSE. more testimonies, release of report 100%, will not change the truth.
He knows it was set up illegally by dems so he can’t get up there and lie since he ignored it completely.
Then he should be subpoenaed and compelled to testify. He’s partially responsible for all of the political fallout.
Mueller is shirking his duty as an American and as a prosecutor. The American people need to hear from him, in person.
I don't blame him! All u want to do is keep stirring things up bc u can't accept his findings! Move on and get to work doing the job u were elected to do! U r acting like a bunch of savage wolves!
So, what aren't the Dems trying to force him? Yeah, that would be a real circus. The dummys of the world, who have been listening to the lies of the Dems and the bias of the MSM, would get to see and hear the truth.
Seems like info was leaked that may make dems look bad.
BabcockAlan Nice
Stupid. Guess he’s a chicken too to come and tell the truth.
He was supposed to be objective and I believe he was. He still needs to speak up My guess is he was probably threatened or they(trump administration) threatened his family or coworkers.
1st Dem question: Why didn’t you find COLLUSION and OBSTRUCTION? 1st Rep question: When did you 1st know there was NO Trump collusion?
Ahhhhh. So Trump is not holding him back like the media and dems say. I dont bLame Mueller. Who wants to be part of the circus?
No public testimony means Dems can make up things he said...perfect
Mueller is an ass 🕳
Too fucking bad
Well, Nadler created the 'spectacle' .... tracking worse ratings than Saturday morning cartoons.... he's made CONGRESS a subterranean creature in the eyes of Americans.
He was hired to do a job. He took millions is payment for him and his team. Taxpayers deserve an open forum. Otherwise he has zero credibility and is a complete fraud.
No mulligans he's not playing the game
BS that bastard created this mess and now he wants to testify privately.
Here the real reason WHY
How else are we going to find why he came to no conclusion? He passed the buck and now our country argues about it.
👏👏👏smart move and he has every right!
RiskAlert Are we supposed to believe that Mueller's coy silence so far has been 'apolitical'? Does Mueller really think his behavior is not abetting Trump? What was the point of 'honorably' serving his country all those years if he cannot step up to save it from being destroyed now?
Then why is he even working? He should quit if he's that gutless.
He was part of it & now that Barr is investing the investigators, he is distancing himself. 👍
Cant blame him, these hearings are a circus
Jail him now
488 pages not enough explanation!?
Why? It’s his fault. Be a man.
Robert Mueller is afraid of Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows and others. He cannot make a fool of himself and admit he is complicit in the coup attempt
Too late for that😉
Duh. No one with an ounce of brain would want to get mixed up in Dem toxicity.
So under the guise of secrecy. realDonaldTrump is more transparent.
So do it privately just do it! And quickly
Too bad. He needs to testify in public. The American people need that.
Can someone tell Mueller the best way to take the swirling politics out of it is for America to hear his perspective directly from him?
ConManDon and his shill Barr knew that.
I don't want to do a lot of things either, but I still have to do them.
Let him testify in private share the proceeding with the American people once he is done testifying. He was hired to do a job that we the people paid for, we are entitled to a detailed explanation from this man.
If Robert Mueller wanted to 'avoid the politics' he should not have produced a report designed to promote politics.
NO!!!!! Mueller needs to testify on live television, for the whole country to see
HE NEEDS TO TESTIFY PUBLICALLY. THE IDIOTS THAT SUPPORT TUMPISM NEED TO SEE WHAT THEY VOTED INTO OFFICE. BUT, THEN, ARE THEY SMART ENOUGH TO CARE
Oh no....we want the show to go on.
That sounds like a lie. But abc will swallow it
Lmao told you it would back fire on dems.
That boat has sailed we need him on TV
Little late for Mueller to avoid politics...
See, even Mueller knows this is a bunch of horseshit. Now they want him to testify about the redacted info. The Dems are not gonna like what he says on the subject...
I’d like not to be part of a dictatorship. I could accept him testifying to Congress in private if that’s the only legal way, but the people deserve to hear from Mueller. Not everybody can understand or read the report, the importance of his testimony warrants being seen publicly
Bwahahaha....yeah..sure..everyone believes this one.
From watching past hearings, he will be berated by the group of Republicans that run their mouths w comments and insults rather than actual questions.
Nadler is a LIAR
For all you guys that lauded mueller the last few years you’ve been bamboozled. Old white republican man should have been all you needed to know that he was never gonna come down on trump and this administration thats probably full of people he knows personally.
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