House Democrats want Robert Mueller to help build a case against Trump
House Democrats are facing a daunting challenge this week — goading Robert Mueller into offering testimony that could irreparably damage Donald Trump’s presidency.
To achieve that, Democrats are aiming to bring the Mueller report off of the pages and onto Americans’ TV screens in an easily digestible format. It’s been their goal all along — but Wednesday will be their best chance to put it into practice. Republicans, meanwhile, intend to use their time to discredit Mueller's work, arguing that he relied on a biased team of investigators who took over an active FBI investigation of Russian interference that was tainted by anti-Trump officials. Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said GOP members of the panel essentially plan to cross-examine Mueller to question his findings.
“If anyone else had been accused of what the report finds the president had done, they would’ve been indicted,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said on Fox News Sunday, adding, “The report presents very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.” Mueller, in the few words he's spoken since he launched his 22-month investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, has indicated he doesn't intend to satisfy either side of the aisle. Rather, he has pointed to his detailed report — which chronicled more than 100 contacts between Trump associates and Russian agents — and declared that the document itself is his testimony. Asking him to go beyond it, he emphasized, would be fruitless.
For example, Schiff said he wants Mueller to weigh in on whether Trump should be indicted after leaving office. But he also acknowledged that Mueller would never answer that question.
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