Ahh, not exactly big man, you will be under oath, and you will answer ALL questions put to you by the people's representatives, including "did Barr shut you down prematurely."

He can answer or not answer.

Why were there so many connections and meetings with Russians??

"...a lot of people are disappointed and they want answers."

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That's the way it was designed. The reason it's not working is because Republicans are siding more with the executive branch instead of siding with The People. Republicans are willing to flush truth down the toilet for Trump, a wannabe dictator. History WILL remember these times.

Following the law and proper procedure is now defined as not standing up?

Is impeachment an obligation or is it discretionary? I am of the camp that believes that when impeachment is warranted it isn't a choice it is an obligation.

I heard someone say on cable news yesterday and I don't know if it is true that Democrats have issued 80 subpoenas for witnesses and documents and have gotten zero responses. When people like Trump Jr. agreed to testify they set the terms of the testimony, the length the subject matter, behind closed doors with attorneys present. Yes, that may well be following the law and proper procedure to a road to nowhere.

Have all the crimes been exposed and proven?

What if Trump were a Democrat? Would Republicans be holding impeachment hearings? They would create a special impeachment committee led by Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows and that Gaetz guy.

Trump has done so much that we know of to deserve impeachment and all we have seen is a redacted Mueller report. An impeachment inquiry is judicial in nature and being so it would get us the grand jury information where all of the good dirt is re: the Trump crime family.

is not a good reason for Democrats to do the same. Republicans only care about power and disregard the law and proper procedure. Democrats need to uphold the laws and procedures or we will truly become a banana republic.

BTW An impeachment inquiry is not judicial in nature. Judicial procedures are in the province of that branch of government. An impeachment inquiry is still a function of the legislative branch.

a banana republic."

We ARE closer than you think to a banana republic. If we continue down this path with our current "strategy", individual 1 and the repubs gain more power, destroy our institutions, put kids in cages, etc. etc. etc.

The process of Impeachment would uphold and respect the laws and procedures.


Meanwhile, our leadership is putting party over country while crossing our fingers for 2020. Weak...

Which is why we need to stay united and win in. 2020.

but work together to win in 20.

To postpone his scheduled hearing until a week later.

He is under subpoena.

The junior members wanted enough time to ask questions. (New sessions will be longer)

He does testify...they need to turn this into a quasi impeachment hearing..since Pelosi won't agree to real impeachment. Simple and succinct as possible.

Mueller is tight lipped and will not offer information. This hearing is all about how Democrats get the truth out of Mueller. We don't need grandstanding or repeating the same questions. Honestly, Democrats need to rehearse this, need to follow a game plan. I wish we had 10 AOC's questioning Mueller. Democrats better not screw this up.

commentators/analysts. Some of them are just so savvy and wise. I heard one say to Blitzer that the committees need to pick out an handful of expert questioners and really plan how to go about this. It is not a time for every single person to get their moment on stage. And, more importantly, LET HIM TALK. Don't get bogged down in minutia. Sample question: "Please, explain ALL the incidents of obstruction of justice for the american public". Let the people hear a full explanation. Let the questions be open ended.

Then, Blitzer interviewed Schiff and was asked about this. He didn't seem to grasp and said, well it was up to the committee how to do this and they hadn't talked about it.

YES WATOOS !! Practice !!

Perhaps, a little less oversight on newly elected members and a sharper focus on the information we the people paid for is in order.

announced immediately after Mueller made his public statement about the investigation back in May where he essentially said: everything I have to say is in the report; I have nothing to add to that; I will not be saying any more. It has now been nearly two months since Mueller made that public statement and 4 months since the report was issued.

... but I will tell you we will be judged by the outcome of this historical moment.

If tRump and his band of con men and women are never called to answer for the damage they are doing to this country we the opposing party will be held in contempt for having done little or nothing.

Damn it stop playing with the Marcus of Queensberry rules, "let's be collegial and understanding", while your, our opponent fights back with guerilla tactics of go for the kill and "take no prisoners".

If you, we don't show some backbone and stand up with every fiber of our being will be complicit in the complete and total destruction of the rules of law and the Constitutional rights and privileges we have all long understood to be ours as Americans.

tRump and his band of grifters are playing a "run out the clock" defense. And it appears they are being successful day in and day out.

“[ ] pulled off a series of brilliant bluffs against larger and stronger powers who lacked the will to confront him. —from a video documentary posted this morning here on DU. History is repeating itself.

but he had feet of clay after his report came out.
If anyone thinks that his appearance before Congress will result in anything much different, you're setting yourself up for disappointment...again. But there are a lot of people that if they were not disappointed they couldn't be sure if they were alive or not.

It is to buy time for Barr to find something, anything that might suggest that the wiretap of the Trump staffer was improper making everything that followed improper. So far the timeline makes it proper so they are attempting to show that the timeline on the pee tape is wrong so it can be used as the basis for the wiretap and not the conversation in London to the Australian Ambassador to the UK. Obviously, they don't have that yet so this 1 week delay was agreed to. Barr will cobble something together but will it stand up under scrutiny. Probably not.

Including for Madam Speaker.

to question Mueller than had been scheduled. They wanted to cover more topics. And to do this, they felt th3need for more time to prepare.