![]() Schiff’s approach was also adopted by Rep. Mueller: "Absolutely." #MuellerHearings /5yaYISFxyg ![]() Adam Schiff: "We should hold our elected officials to a standard higher than a mere avoidance of criminality, shouldn't we?" “And a crime,” Mueller replied, “given certain circumstances.” Schiff closed the hearing by asking Mueller if it was fair to say that he believed that “knowingly accepting foreign assistance during a campaign is an unethical thing to do.” Tom Nichols, a professor at the Naval War College and a former Republican, suggested that “Schiff’s five minutes and Mueller’s answers would have been enough for Republicans to impeach and convict any other president before sundown today.” ? No one reported these contacts or interference to FBI. ? Russians made numerous contacts with the campaign. ? Russia interfered in our election to help Trump. Many observers suggested that Schiff, a former federal prosecutor, conducted the clearest and most effective round of questioning all day, by simply asking Mueller to affirm in turn the most damning conclusions in his report: that the investigation “established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome ” that the Trump campaign “expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts ” that Trump himself tried to secretly profit from the campaign by securing Russian government help in a Moscow real-estate deal and that Trump lied about all of this. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. ![]() Adam Schiff Provide Enough Cover for Democrats to Impeach Trump?Īt the end of a long day of questioning, Robert Mueller was released by Rep. ![]() Updates on key moments in the hearings appear below. Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, testified on Wednesday morning to the House Judiciary Committee and on Wednesday afternoon to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and President Donald Trump’s efforts to obstruct that inquiry. ![]()
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