If Mueller agrees to testify behind closed doors....?

[kentuck]

...Should the House Judiciary accept it?

Usually in private hearings, both sides come out and spin what they heard, sometimes at total odds.

But, would this be better than nothing?

[lunatica]

1. If necessary yes. He should.

[watoos]

2. Yes behind closed doors is better than nothing,

....drip....drip....drip.

I keep waiting for Andrew Weissman to pull a Pentagon Papers event.

[unblock]

3. seems to me little point without a meaningful component in front of the cameras.

by far the most important thing he can do is add gravitas and bring the dry written findings to life.

talk behind closed doors, very likely to reveal not much that wasn't in the report, won't change anything by the time it's spun to the public.

[msongs]

4. public under oath nt

[mudpuddle]

5. Mueller should speak publicly and declassify the evidence already!

Put an end to the protection racket that is DC! Congress is not a court of law...half of them are crooks. If they can see the evidence, let us see it.

[lark]

6. Nope, that will not help one little bit.

Repugs are liars and they will just lie and no one will know for sure what is really said. The only way this would work would be a transcript released to the press within 24 hours by Nadler (no input from Jordan included). Otherwise it is a total waste of time.

[kentuck]

7. What if he told the Democrats and the Republicans behind closed doors....

....that Trump was guilty as sin. Then, he would hand the hot potato to them to let them figure it out.

[UniteFightBack]

9. I'm hearing he won't do that....he's not the judge. Now 900 former prosecutors can come out and

say it but by the book Bob can't. He is fucking ridiculous.

[lark]

12. He already did that and repugs said it totally cleared him so it won't work.

if there is no written transcript they will just 100% totally lie. There is not one among them with enough principles to stand up to drumpf and Russia, other than Amash. Mueller knows this and doesn't care because, as he is making more plain every day, he is a repug before he is an American who cares about our laws or constitution.

[UniteFightBack]

8. NO. He needs to testify in front of the American People. We paid for that shit and he needs to

testify. Subpoena him too. This Robert Mueller fellow is pissing me the fuck off.

[hughee99]

10. I guess it depends on what the goals are.

If the only two choices are the surety of a closed session, or hold out for an open, televised testimony that may not happen, what is more important?

If you want to find out what he knows, or thinks, or ask questions about non-public redacted material, you’ll probably have to do a closed session.

If you want to use his testimony to try to shape public opinion, it’s open session or nothing.

[FakeNoose]

11. Of course, as long as it all goes on the record

Almost all of the investigation & interviews happened behind closed doors, am I right?

The record of Mueller's testimony must be complete and correct, that's the important thing. The actual impeachment (or indictment) may not take place for a another couple of years. We need his testimony now even though we may not hear it until later.