Mueller's confidence level looks like he doesn't want to be there!

[imanamerican63]

It's not good at all! He is not as sharp as he been in past hearing over the years!

[bearsfootball516]

1. I don't think he does. There's a reason it took him so long to testify.

[Igel]

8. He knows how it'll go.

An investigation that was to be fact-based is being made into political theater. The stars are the politicians, the goal is to get rid of an opposition political figure whatever it takes, and the foil, the raw material, for the present is Mueller.

(The one thing that I heard Mueller say that I think deserves comment in the hour that I listened wasn't even straightforward. He concluded he couldn't indict a sitting president. However, many a prosecutor decides that the target is guilty of a crime and could be indicted however declines to prosecute for all sorts of reasons--cost, politics, mercy, statute of limitations, lack of jurisdiction, inadmissibility or even lack of evidence, or even just what's the point when the crime would give a 6 month sentence but the guy's unlikely to live 7 months because he's 93 and mostly dead from cancer or there'd be a $50k fine but the family of 8 with the grandmother serving as guardian is already on welfare? In other words, the prosecutor's conclusion of guilt is separate from considering the evidence is separate from the decision to indict. They are three logically, legally, categorially distinct things.

(When directly asked if he could have said, "You know, I think Trump did obstruct justice and could be indicted, but policy says I can't indict so I won't" he just said, "Sitting presidents under OLC guidance cannot be prosecuted." If not for the fact that legal discussions don't abide by the normal rules of conversational implicature, the implicature would be that Mueller denied that there is prosecutorial discretion available in this case. (Of course, he originally cited the OLC guidance/DOJ policy but also "fairness", but I'm not going to touch that last bit.) )

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. He *doesn't* want to be there. He made that clear a long time ago.

If he doesn't seem "sharp," I'd say it's because the GOP questioners' blathering makes it impossible for him to figure out what their actual questions are. I sure can't.

[dem4decades]

3. Jackson Lee should stop yelling at him for Christ's sake. You can'y follow her questioning

[pwb]

4. Would you?

He is testifying about the President of the United States. Most would be a bit nervous I would think.

[blogslut]

5. He's hard of hearing

[Hoyt]

6. When he stated explicitly that they found no collusion/conspiracy/coordination, it was all but over.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. I think the esteem that everyone holds Mueller in is overrated.

He is not the hot stuff everyone is making him out to be....well that or folks are still hoping for some smoking gun.

Get out the vote and get rid of Trump
at the same time, the House should be doing more of this to expose Trump on tv.