Good evening, a day and a half from now, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will go before

a pair of House committees and be asked about the Russian investigation.

We have breaking news on that tonight, a letter from the Justice Department, which says

it was sent at Mueller's request, reminding him not to go beyond the boundaries of his public

report.

We've also learned through a spokesman that the former Special Counsel has not shown

his old bosses the opening statement he'll give on Wednesday, all of which only serves

to add even more drama to the moment.

No testimony in recent memory has been so widely anticipated, even though tonight's

breaking news is notwithstanding, the witness has already made it clear what he will and

won't say.

Any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report.

It contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made.

We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself.

And the report is my testimony.

I would not provide information beyond that, which is already public in any appearance before

Congress.

Well that was the outgoing Special Counsel a little less than two months ago, telling anyone

who wants to know his thinking with respect to the investigation to just read the report.

At the same time, though, the very fact that he gave that press conference at all, which

came as a surprise, signaled something else.

As did his earlier letter complaining about how his report was being characterized by the

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