Rep. Elijah Cummings: 'It's not about not liking the president, it's about loving democracy. It's about loving our country. It's about making a difference for generations yet unborn. That's what this is all about.'
Moments after being sworn in for his testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, former special counsel Robert Mueller again doubled down on his commitment not to take his testimony beyond the bounds of his 448-page report.
Even before Mueller's redacted report was made publicly available in April, President Donald Trump was touting that the investigation’s conclusion had exonerated him. But perhaps Trump's most frequently used dismissal of the probe was his accusation that the special counsel's investigation was a 'witch hunt.'
His interest in WikiLeaks goes to the heart of the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion, released in a January 2017 report, that the online organization weaponized and published damaging information provided to it by a hacker from the Russian government on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
In his report, Mueller demurred on this matter, stating that his report does not exonerate the president but noting that his office did not make a decision on the matter due to the standing Office of Legal Counsel opinion.
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