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Mueller agreed to participate in five hours of testimony on Wednesday — after the hearings were delayed from last week to give him more time to prepare. His testimony commenced Wednesday morning for three hours before the House Judiciary Committee and he will later appear before the House Intelligence Committee for two hours. The former special counsel arrived at the House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday morning to engaged in three hours of testimony before the Democrat-controlled panel.

He will also testify for two hours before the House Intelligence Committee later in the day. When Mueller officially closed the Office of the Special Counsel Russia investigation on May 29, he also requested the page report be taken as his final word on the matter.

He also said that he would not speak publicly on the investigation and its findings anymore. However, later faced with the reality of a subpoena from House Democrats, Mueller agreed to appear for limited public testimony.

Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler claimed he needed to testify so the American people could hear directly from Mueller. The Democratic lawmaker claimed his testimony would likely contradict what Attorney General Bill Barr and President Donald Trump have been saying about the report. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Protester interrupts Mueller hearing before it starts with rant claiming Jared and Manafort 'downloaded encrypted communications apps' on the day of infamous Trump Tower meeting Robert Mueller's Capitol Hill testimony was interrupted before it even began with a lone protester shouting a conspiracy theory 'Kushner and Manafort downloaded encrypted communications apps on the date of the Trump Tower meeting!

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And they expect to do it during the next campaign," Mueller said. After the hearing resumed, Mueller was asked about another matter that critics have questioned: his handling of the president's son.

The plan was that Mueller would testify for about two hours before the House Intelligence Committee but aides said it could go somewhat longer. A few minutes earlier Rep. Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat, ran through a series of slides showing Trump quotes about WikiLeaks, prompting Mueller to call Trump's encouraging comments "problematic.

I love WikiLeaks. You have to read it. On October 3, WikiLeaks penned another message to Trump Jr. Julian Assange responded to that, he had already done so. This behavior at the very least disturbing? Republican lawmaker presses Mueller on whether attorney general has authority to exonerate Trump. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, returned to Republicans' theme of questioning Mueller's decision not to exonerate Trump, something that has frustrated the president and his allies.

He knows this already. So then that kind of changes the context of the report," he said. He has not been given that authority. One word out of the entire portion of your report and it's a meaningless word that has no legal meaning and it has colored your entire report. Mueller, would you agree with me that the attorney general does not have the power to exonerate? I'm not prepared to deal with a legal discussion in that arena," Mueller answered.

Mueller said his investigation was not a witch hunt and that Russian interference is not a hoax, as Trump has claimed. Mueller corrects earlier statement to Democratic lawmaker at first hearing. Lieu who said, and I quote, 'You didn't charge the president because of the OLC opinion'," Mueller said, referring to the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinion that it was against department policy to indict a sitting president.

As we say in the report, and as I said at the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime," Mueller explained. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Once again, numerous pressing issues this Committee needs to address are put on hold to indulge the political fantasies of people who believed it was their destiny to serve in the Hillary Clinton administration.

But your report tells another story as well. For the story of the presidential election is also a story about disloyalty to country, about greed, and about lies," he continued. Those are strong words, but how else are we to describe a presidential campaign which did not inform the authorities of a foreign offer of dirt on their opponent, which did not publicly shun it, or turn it away, but which instead invited it, encouraged it, and made full use of it?

Mueller finished his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee after more than three hours of questioning. After a break, Mueller would be testifying before members of the House Intelligence Committee about the section of his report dealing with whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government or individuals tied to that government. That process, other than the criminal justice system for accusing a president of wrongdoing, is that impeachment?

Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, asked. For the non-lawyers in the room, what did you mean by, quote, 'potentially preempt constitutional processes'? In the footnote is the reference to this. What are those constitutional processes? Madeleine Dean, D-Penn. A key question since his report was issued has been whether Mueller, because he believed he could not indict a sitting president, intended for Congress to deal with the issue through possible impeachment, according to the Constitution.

Your report does not recommend impeachment. Does it? Mike Johnson, R-La.