.MaddowBlog: In testimony, Mueller discredits key Trump talking points.
If you’ve spent time watching former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony this morning, you’ve probably noticed that he’s deflected or declined to answer more than a few questions. NBC News has been keeping a running tally online, and the last time I looked, the total was well over 100.
At the opening of Mueller’s highly anticipated day of hearings before the House of Representatives on his two-year probe into Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., asked the former special counsel if the probe cleared Trump. This was, oddly enough, one of the first exchanges of the day, and it was also among the most important.
Officials in the West Wing were also likely less than thrilled when Rep. Ken Buck asked Mueller, “Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?” The former special counsel replied, “Yes.”
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