Welcome back to Talking Feds, a prosecutor's roundtable that brings together prominent

former federal officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Littman, I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General

and a current Washington Post columnist.

We're here in Washington, DC to tape a series of podcast episodes in front of a live audience

just blocks from the Capitol Dome.

We've had five episodes so far this week and we are in the home stretch.

All this thanks to our gracious hosts at Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy

and Protection.

All this week we are talking about what happens after Mueller.

What are the challenges and prospects for our democratic institutions?

Today in two episodes we're focused much more directly on what happens on the day of Robert

Mueller's testimony to Congress on the 17th.

We've just had a panel dealing with strategy and tactics that the House committees might

consider how they should in broad strokes go about trying to set goals and achieve them.

So Ron Claim and Tim Lynch and Matt Miller and Andy McCabe had some really interesting things

to say about the sort of broader strategy here.

We end with a very sort of nuts and bolts panel styled mooding Mueller to set it up a little.

So the questioning in the House of Administration witnesses has been, I think it's fair to say,

generally ineffective.

The overall spectacle of these mini speeches with little follow-up, no use of evidence.

The republicans breaking momentum with different screeds about the steel dossier and the deep

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