POLITICO Playbook: How to think about today’s Mueller extravaganza

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POLITICO Playbook: How to think about today’s Mueller extravaganza
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One thing to watch for during Mueller's testimony: Delays from lawmakers. If we’ve learned anything about these hearings since Democrats took the majority, it’s that they turn quickly into political circuses. More in Playbook:

“The resulting food fight could prove to be riveting television as cable and broadcast networks carry the proceedings live with back-to-back hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. And Mr. Mueller may be compelling simply by virtue of his just-the-facts credibility after two years of near silence.anyone’s mind in a highly polarized country that has already digested Mr. Mueller’s findings and dug in on its conflicting views of Mr. Trump and his guilt or innocence.

“In more than seven months of investigating Trump, a half-dozen Democratic-led House committees have struggled to unearth major findings, hold high-profile hearings that move public sentiment or follow up on inquiries they laid out when the party took the majority in January.

Republican leaders have long been wary of how their party talks about the probe into the president, aware that some in the GOP tend to burrow deep into tangential issues that the public simply is not tracking. We’ve had countless conversations about the Mueller probe with senior members of the Judiciary and Intelligence committees over the past few years. Inevitably, the conversations naturally end up miles from where they began. Why wasn’t Bill Clinton charged with a crime for talking to Loretta Lynch on the tarmac at the Phoenix airport, Republicans ask? Here’s a newsflash: Peter Strzok is not a household name.

BIG PICTURE … POLITICO/MORNING CONSULT POLLING SHOWS DEMOCRATS ARE BEGINNING TO BELIEVE THE MUELLER PROBE WAS UNFAIR:of Democrats said they believed the investigation was handled fairly, and

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