![]() The emphasis changed somewhat in the afternoon when the scene shifted to the House Intelligence Committee. With the exception of Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), no one in the House Judiciary Committee talked much about Russian intervention at all. The Democratic refrain “No one is above the law,” was invoked early and often. And Mueller himself acknowledged that while he didn’t believe (because of the Office of Legal Counsel ruling) a sitting president could be indicted, he did say that once no longer president someone could be indicted for obstruction of justice-or any other crime. ![]() More than one Democrat pointed out that anyone else would have been indicted based upon the fact pattern presented. More than one member of the Judiciary Committee bore down on Trump’s instruction to his White House Counsel to fire Mueller and on his subsequent instructions to create a paper trail showing he never did any such thing. Starting with the Democrats, it was clear that they wanted to focus on obstruction of justice. ![]() What the members of Congress did, with remarkable discipline, was to delve into the report and use pieces of it to try and tell their story in the hopes that the ultimate sanction on President Trump-impeachment-would either move forward or be left behind. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller sat in front of two separate House committees for more than 6 hours, looking for all the world like a man who wanted to be anywhere else, and gave perhaps the most terse answers ever heard in that august chamber.
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