Ross: Special Counsel Robert Mueller speaks up … take two!

Jul 25, 2019, 5:50 AM | Updated: 9:26 am

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is sworn in before testifying to the House Judiciary Committee about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the Rayburn House Office Building July 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mueller will later testify before the House Intelligence Committee in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the Rayburn House Office Building July 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mueller earlier testified before the House Judiciary Committee in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the Rayburn House Office Building July 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mueller will later testify before the House Intelligence Committee in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst - Pool/Getty Images)

BY DAVE ROSS

KIRO Newsradio Host

Robert Mueller understood that the reason for his congressional testimony Wednesday was to provide Democrats a viral video version of his book. He warned them it would not be compelling TV.

But give the Democrats credit. They tried so hard to give him something to swing at.

QUESTION: “Now director Mueller, can you explain in plain terms what that finding means so the American people can understand it?”

MULLER:” Well uh, the finding indicates that … the president was not exculpated…”

Exculpated! A word that everyone uses … exactly never.

And it wasn’t just the Democrats. The Republicans tried their best to get him to hit one to the opposite field.

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QUESTION: Your report does not recommend impeachment, does it?

MUELLER: I’m not going to talk about recommendations.

QUESTION: It does not conclude that impeachment would be appropriate here?

MUELLER: I am not going to talk about that issue.

QUESTION: That’s one of the many things you wouldn’t talk about today…

And scene!

Robert Mueller is a veteran, former Marine, a great public servant, a patriotic American.

But viral he is not. And my guess is that’s exactly what he wanted.

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