Robert Mueller's Return

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0	This program may contain explicit language.
0:02.9	Also, we have a newsletter coming out.
0:05.6	It's at slate.com slash just news.
0:08.8	Now on with the possibly filthy show.
0:15.5	It's Monday, July 22, 2019.
0:18.0	From slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca and attention must be paid to Robert Mueller.
0:24.5	Because he's gonna crack this whole thing wide open.
0:28.0	Though his report didn't and though his press conference didn't and though the dramatic
0:32.8	readings of the report didn't and though the comic book drawn by the guy from Archer
0:37.3	written by the guy from Black Hawk down didn't.
0:40.4	The congressional testimony on a Wednesday in July will.
0:45.5	We're now just days away from Robert Mueller's high stakes testimony before Congress and
0:49.6	Democrats are using every hour between now and then to get ready for it.
0:54.3	CNN previewed the game plan.
0:56.0	Jeremy from Capitol Hill or senior congressional correspondent, Manu Raju.
0:59.8	Manu, what was striking to me in the reporting from you and the team this morning is that
1:03.6	some Democrats are saying they are preparing more for this hearing than they have ever
1:08.6	before for other hearings.
1:10.2	Yeah, this has been intense preparations behind the scenes.
1:13.4	They're actually mock hearings.
1:15.2	Hey, listen, I am a big fan of careful preparation.
1:18.5	All of my comments on every episode of the Just Not With Standing.
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