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Oh man, it was the biggest news of the day of the year of the century. Robert Mueller was going to

appear before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees. And my goodness, we were going to find before the House judiciary and oversight committees.

And my goodness, we were going to find out at long last what President Trump had done.

I mean, sure, there was already a 448-page report about it.

Sure, I remember, I seem to remember reading the whole thing because it was super boring

and had some spicy moments.

I mean, well, in a great book or anything.

And then I remember

coming on this show and summarizing it in detail for like three straight days, but that wasn't

enough. The Democrats had to bring Robert Mueller in because they wanted to grill him. And they

wanted to demonstrate that in reality, despite the fact that Robert Mueller had said he was

not hindered in his investigation, despite the fact that the investigation,

in fact, in fact, found no collusion with the Russians, despite the fact that the obstruction

charges were not sufficient to bring a prosecution and that Robert Mueller had begged off,

the Democrats were under the weird assumption that Robert Mueller was going to show up and he was

going to say, guys, time for me to drop the pretense. I'm Going to drop the pretense right now. Trump is guilty. And you, only you, can impeach him.

That was what the Democrats were hoping for from this. And so the buildup to this event was magnificent.

Folks in the media were really, really excited about all of this. Folks in the media thought,

well, this will be the moment. This will be the moment when finally Trump is brought to heal. And so were Democrats. Democrats were very excited about this. So you had Representative Ted Liu from the state of California saying, minds are going to be blown. It's going to be incredible. Basically, this was like the buildup to Ishitar.

We're going to spend an awful lot of money, and there's going to be a lot of press, and then the movie was going to be not very good. Well, that's how it kind of ended up. Here is Ted Lutho, really, really pumping up this thing as though it was Alita Battle Angel. He's like, we're just going to pump this thing up. Here he is explaining,

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