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It's Wednesday, May 29th.

Today, Robert Mueller's first public statement about the Russian investigation.

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When you woke up this morning, were you expecting to hear from Robert Mueller today?

No, absolutely not.

Ross Helderman is an investigative reporter for the post.

I saw that he was going to be speaking as I was writing an elevator down to the metro.

When it was quite an adrenaline charge.

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for being here.

We've been waiting for two years to hear from Robert Mueller.

I have not spoken publicly during our investigation.

He has literally said nothing. He has never appeared on camera.

He has issued one statement in his own words, which was one sentence when he accepted the appointment in May of 2017.

And suddenly we get this award this morning that he's going to give an on-camera statement.

But from the start, he indicated he would not be taking any questions.

All we knew is that it was going to be fairly short, about eight minutes long, and in some ways substantive.

That's what we were told it would be substantive.

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