From The New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.

Special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before two House committees tomorrow.

Mike Schmidt, on what to expect.

It's Tuesday afternoon, July 23rd.

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Okay, Mike Schmidt. So we are gathered here today because it's the eve of the Mueller testimony.

Yeah. In many other circumstances, if we were going to hear from the person who was in charge

of an investigation, it would be a huge deal. But there are some factors here that have taken a lot

of the air out of it. Like what? One is attorney general Bill Barr by announcing initially that

the president had not broken the law. And having the report come out many weeks later, really made

it harder for the Democrats to then take the report and run with it when it came out.

The second thing is that Mueller has been told by the Justice Department that he is only to speak

about the contents of his report. He has to stay within the four corners of the document.

He can't get into internal deliberations about his office or discussions about the rationale

for the decisions they made. Third is that we're so far removed from the release of the report.

Third, the public has already consumed as much of the report as they're probably going to.

And the Democrats have determined they can only really take this so far and have avoided

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