“All they want to do is try to impeach the president,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said of Democrats. “I think there’s a lot of information that Republicans can actually get out of it.”
Former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify in public before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees on July 17, both panels announced late Tuesday, in what is expected to be a high-stakes public airing of President Donald Trump’s efforts to interfere with Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“Americans have demanded to hear directly from the special counsel so they can understand what he and his team examined, uncovered, and determined about Russia’s attack on our democracy, the Trump campaign’s acceptance and use of that help, and President Trump and his associates’ obstruction of the investigation into that attack,” Nadler and Schiff said in a joint statement.
Mueller did not utter a word in public while his investigation was ongoing. But in rare public remarks last month marking the end of the probe, Mueller said his 448-page report “is my testimony” and that any appearance before Congress would be limited to the report itself. In a briefto Mueller that accompanied the subpoena, Nadler and Schiff said it became “necessary” to issue a subpoena.
Democrats have been eagerly awaiting Mueller’s testimony ever since he completed his nearly two-year investigation in March. They believe that Americans haven’t fully digested the Mueller report, and that a public airing of the evidence contained within it could damage Trump politically ahead of his re-election in 2020, and potentially convince the public that impeachment is a necessary remedy.
Rep. Val Demings , a member of both the Intelligence and Judiciary committees, said she intends to press Mueller about his interpretation of those guidelines. But even if Mueller will not expound upon his report, Demings said, his presence and restatement of his report's findings could be enough, as evidenced by the impact of his brief public statement last month.
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