Mr. Mueller was a busy man today. He spent 3 hours testifying at the House Judiciary committee in the morning, and another couple of hours testifying at the House Intelligence committee. And like in the first testimony, most of the outcome came as expected, though there were some surprises.
- Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican, played the role of the party’s puppet. His immediate focus was on bringing up, what seemed like, conspiracy theories about the FBI’s biases towards the Trump campaign and its advisors.
- The Republican members of this committee were much more theatrical in their questioning. Whereas the first committee had been aggressive and even angry, these Republicans were “better prepared” with props to aid in their questioning.
- There were a lot more democrats in this committee than in the other.
- One Republican, John Ratcliffe, rose above the party lines and simply complimented Mueller for his work and service and gave his time to the ranking member. That was one of the highlights of the day.
- The other highlight, was Jackie Speier, a Democrat, who got Mueller to respond with the longest statement of the day by letting Mueller speak to what he felt people should gather from his report.
