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The Investigation

Bonus: "A Guy Who Just Didn't Want To Play Politics"

The Investigation

ABC News

News, Politics

3.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

"The Investigation" brings you a bonus episode on the day of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony on Capitol Hill. After a 22 month investigation, a 448 page report, and countless Presidential tweets-Robert Mueller himself was sworn in to testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees. Now, our co-hosts Chris Vlasto, John Santucci and Matt Mosk are joined by ABC News Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas and Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran to break down all the critical moments for both sides of the aisle, from Congressman Ted Lieu's question about the Office of Legal Counsel opinion that had Democrats temporarily rejoicing, to Mueller's passionate defense of his investigation: "It is not a witch hunt." Thomas, who has covered Mueller for decades, brings historical context to today's testimony: "he'll be remembered as a guy who didn’t want to play politics, he did not want to engage in a circus."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an ABC News special.

0:04.0

Good morning and welcome to our special coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's congressional testimony.

0:09.0

The Russian government's effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious.

0:14.0

Did you actually totally exonerate the president?

0:17.0

No.

0:18.0

Did your investigation find that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from

0:22.2

one of the candidates winning? Yes. Well, your investigation is not a witch hunt. It is not a witch hunt.

0:28.0

Would you agree that it was not a hoax that the Russians were engaged in trying to impact our

0:37.3

election? Absolutely. That was not a hoax. Did you know that? engaged in trying to impact our election.

0:38.8

Absolutely.

0:39.9

That was not a hoax.

0:41.4

Did McCann do what the president asked?

0:44.0

Well, I would have to refer you to the report on that.

0:47.1

The report is my testimony.

0:53.4

Welcome to the investigation. I'm Chris Vlasto, senior executive producer for ABC, and this is a very big day in the Mueller investigation.

1:02.7

Robert Mueller testified for more than five hours, two committees, the Judiciary Committee and the Intelligence Committee.

1:09.3

And obviously, over the last six, seven months, we've been covering this investigation in depth.

1:14.4

And so we're going to break down the testimony.

1:16.5

We actually have with us our two regulars, John Santucci and Matt Mosque, who have been covering the investigation since the very beginning.

1:25.2

And we have two special guests.

1:27.0

We have Terry Moran, senior national correspondent with ABC News,

1:30.3

and he's also our resident historian of American history here,

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