This is why I wanted Mueller to subpoena Trump. He probably would have refused, the SC would order him to comply, and the ultimate showdown would have happened by now.
Instead Mueller may go down in history as the pathetically weak Special Counsel who’s sense of what is “fair” helped to doom the country.
It wasn’t Mueller’s job to provoke a constitutional crisis, and Rosenstein probably wouldn’t have allowed him to anyway. And if he had wanted to subpoena Trump and Rosenstein nixed it and Mueller quit as a result (which he wouldn’t have), that wouldn’t have gained anything either.
I was just being selfish.
I suspect that Mueller had a fairly clear set of rules outlined for himself before he began. If Trump formed a genuine deal with Russia, then he would go as far as need-be. But if it was just something funny like Obstruction of Justice or paying off women that he’d slept with, then he’d leave it to Congress.
Most likely, Trump’s genuine deal is with Saudi Arabia - though, likely, the Russians have something compromising on him. Ideally, the FBI and CIA are still tracking forwards on both of those.
Fortunately, I think that the Senate Republicans are largely aware that Trump is probably compromised, and they’re voting to block him from doing stuff that they doubt the intentions of and putting sanctions on people that they think have materials on Trump. Unfortunately, they’re not impeaching him. Presumably, because they’re protecting their own asses and don’t want Trump sinking the party.
Mueller agrees to testify before Congress…
ETA: Ninja’d again! It took me a few minutes to get it to stop auto-decapitalizing all my letters…
Brace for hurricane-force blasts of explosive Twitterrhea…
I’m not sure what people expect. He already said everything he has to say is in the report. I don’t expect much. I hope I’m wrong
Yeah, kind of like there not being much difference between A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones… except the trivial matter of audience size…
The AP says it’s happening.
“Robert Mueller to Testify Before House Committees”
I just wanted to get on the bandwagon. Late.
What bombshells should be expect from Mueller’s testimony?
He’s proven that, in this case at least, he’s a balls-and-strikes bureaucrat who is apparently content to review evidence of massive criminality and say “Welp, technically I did all I can do. You guys read between the lines and figure out the rest.” Don’t forget this part: “In the end, the two committees were forced to issue subpoenas compelling Mr. Mueller to appear.”
I can see Democrats dancing around trying to get him to answer hypotheticals and he’ll be like “I can’t answer a hypothetical”.
Bookmark this thread; I’ll joyfully accept correction next month if I’m wrong. But I don’t think I am.
If it ain’t public and on tee-vee, it don’t mean shit.
It’s public and on tv.
But is it on Fox & Friends?
Agreed.
If the Dems look like shitbags asking if he thinks Trump obstructed justice. And we’ll hear, read the report again. 
Even if all they get Mueller to do is read publicly the most damming parts of his report live on TV, that would have incredible value. Things are just different when they’re on TV from the horse’s mouth.
I don’t think he’s gonna un-redact anything spicy on live TV. The man doesn’t seem to possess that kind of spontaneity.
He wouldn’t have to. There is plenty of stuff in the unredacted report that shows the Trump narrative is a lie, but lots of folks are unaware of. To see Mueller saying that stuff on live TV would be much, much more valuable than just having it out there in newspapers and on the internet. It really is different when it’s on TV, and can be replayed over and over again.