Details On Why Schiff Regrets Asking Mueller To Testify On Russia Probe

[demmiblue]

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Monday said that he regrets asking former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in 2019 following Mueller’s final report on the Russia probe.

In his upcoming book “Midnight in Washington,” Schiff reportedly wrote that although he sent Mueller a handwritten note asking him to testify in July 2019, he found it “heartbreaking” when the then-special counsel declined or deflected dozens of questions.

“Had I known how much he had changed, I would not have pursued his testimony with such vigor — in fact, I would not have pursued it at all,” Schiff wrote, according to CNN.

Schiff has given a few interviews in recent days expanding on that regret, including last night. Pressed on that revelation in his book during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Schiff detailed his regrets on requesting Mueller’s testimony when Maddow asked if he thinks someone else should have testified or led the Russia probe.

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[HUAJIAO]

1. I don't understand? How did Mueller "change?"

What was Adam disappointed about?

[Mad_Machine76]

2. Buy his book?

[Hoyt]

3. If you saw Mueller at the hearings, you'd know. He didn't appear a man who should have been

in charge of investigating trump and election collusion with Ruskies.

[HUAJIAO]

12. I did see some of it, but forgot most of it, other than Mueller

bullshitting and not really answering much... etc....

[lame54]

5. Mueller was sold to me and everybody else...

As the most courageous stand up guy ever

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. Yep. He was sold as our "Rambo" to take down the tRump crime family.

[renate]

18. My feeling is that he worked his butt off at a time in his life when he shouldn't have done so

It's really unfortunate that his limitations--which were only natural after a lifetime of extremely hard work--made the investigation kind of toothless, since he didn't have the ability to publicly refute Bill Barr's lies when the report was released and go "the hell I said that." And his appearance at the hearings was such a letdown.

But I think he did his best and really tried to give his absolute all for the country and Constitution that he loves.

[jimfields33]

10. Normally a person asking the questions knows the answers before asking

I think Schiff forgot to which is why he’s regretful.

[Yoyoyo77]

16. When I watched the testimony I thought that maybe he was suffering cognitive decline.

This sounds like it could be something along that line.

[Yoyoyo77]

17. When I watched the testimony I thought that maybe he was suffering cognitive decline.

This sounds like it could be something along that line.

[Generic Brad]

20. That's probably why he was tapped to lead the investigation

No one at any point has done us any favors in giving the Trump crime family the justice they deserve.

[madville]

19. He's on a book promotion media tour

He’s gotta create some sort of buzz or offer some previously unknown “insight” to get people to buy it.

[2naSalit]

4. I'm wondering too...

I saw two interviews and he never said anything more than he did in this one.

I suspect it's a health condition like Parkinson's maybe? He certainly wasn't what we all anticipated during that testimony given his record of past investigations.

[gratuitous]

6. I think Schiff's regret is about how Mueller straitjacketed himself

Mueller drew his own line in the sand as far as his investigation went, and he wouldn't cross it for anything. Even when the evidence he developed pointed to criminal wrongdoing, he refused to go any further than a recitation of his findings, always thoroughly hedged by cautionary statements that his office wasn't drawing any conclusions about what they were finding.

[Deminpenn]

8. Bingo

nt

[Bev54]

13. That and his inability to understand that others such as Barr

were no honest brokers. He explained that Mueller thinks everyone has the same integrity as he does and was not able to do anything about those who did not.

[brush]

9. Someone else should've been in charge. Mueller had lost a step...

or two cognitively from his former self. It was apparently during his testimony.

[jimfields33]

11. It's not like he didn't talk to anybody during the investigation.

Nobody saw any signs until on national television? I find that impossible.

[brush]

22. Yeah, they shouldn't have called him.

[ecstatic]

14. It's actually pretty simple- you can't trust republicans

or expect them to lead or have integrity. Follow that guideline and you can't go wrong. lol

[stillcool]

15. I'd like to read the entire Mueller report...

Regardless of the self-imposed restraints Mueller put on his testimony before Congress, the report had a lot of information in it. The redactions made to prevent the American people from reading a government report never intended to be secret, leaves a lot of questions. As does every investigation ever done by the the United States government pertaining to itself.

[Xolodno]

21. The fiasco with Ken Starr probably played a big part of it.

He set limits in order to NOT go down that cluster fuck. But didn't realize, it was a cluster fuck he needed to investigate.

In the end, he did say Russia did its best to influence the election....but didn't go further to find out if it was invited and by whom.