{"id":36895,"date":"2019-06-26T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36895"},"modified":"2019-06-26T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:52:03","slug":"mueller-will-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/mueller-will-testify\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller Will Testify!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s some great news.&nbsp; Robert Mueller has reluctantly agreed to comply with subpoenas and testify before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees in open session one week from today.&nbsp; It will be widely televised and watched.&nbsp; I look forward to seeing the testimony, but it&#8217;s important to manage the hearings in the most efficient way to make sure voters get the answers they need to know.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0626Mueller\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0626Mueller\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0626Mueller.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"415\">  <\/p>\n<p>The House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees announced Tuesday that Mueller had agreed to testify after they issued subpoenas for his testimony, and Mueller would appear in public before the two panels next month.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Americans have demanded to hear directly from the Special Counsel so they can understand what he and his team examined, uncovered, and determined about Russia&#8217;s attack on our democracy, the Trump campaign&#8217;s acceptance and use of that help, and President Trump and his associates&#8217; obstruction of the investigation into that attack<\/strong>,&#8221; House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said in a joint statement.  <\/p>\n<p>Mueller&#8217;s testimony is poised to be the most-anticipated congressional hearing in years, and represents a huge moment for House Democrats who have wrestled with whether to dive into a politically divisive impeachment process following the Mueller investigation and White House stonewalling of congressional probes.  <\/p>\n<p>Trump responded to the news on Twitter Tuesday with a familiar two-word refrain: &#8220;Presidential Harassment!&#8221;&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/25\/politics\/robert-mueller-will-testify\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K5SLxMigOlw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> on what to expect.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/K5SLxMigOlw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Mueller&#8217;s testimony is so critical, because AG Barrf and the Republican Reich keep misrepresenting Mueller&#8217;s report.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kJ0mHrqbD1g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> discussed the testimony with Adam Schiff.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kJ0mHrqbD1g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I consider it critical that staff do most of the questioning to keep Mueller on track over time. Otherwise, a bunch of members will ask the same questions over and over to create campaign footage. Mueller will slow-walk the answers and run out the clock on them, and America will go without the testimony we need.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you have a Democratic Congress Critter in either committee, call them and tell them to have staff question Mueller.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some great news.&nbsp; Robert Mueller has reluctantly agreed to comply with subpoenas and testify before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees in open session one week from today.&nbsp; It will be widely televised and watched.&nbsp; I look forward to seeing the testimony, but it&#8217;s important to manage the hearings in the most efficient way <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/mueller-will-testify\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}