And it could be argued, a devastating line of questioning (and answers too), for a certain “Individual One.”
Here’s is that series of questions, that opened the 2nd Hearing today, with the Intelligence Committee.
Take a listen/read-up ...
00:00:00
Robert S. Mueller III
[Ending opening statement …] whether the President committed a crime. And with that, Mr. Chairman, I'm ready to answer questions.
00:00:07
Rep. Adam Schiff
>> Thank you, Director Mueller. I recognize myself for five minutes. Director Mueller your report describes a sweeping effort by Russia to influence...
00:00:19
Mueller
>> That's correct.
00:00:20
Schiff
>> And during the course of this Russian interference in the election, the Russians made outreach to the Trump campaign. did they not?
00:00:28
Mueller
>> That occurred over the course of -- yeah, that occurred.
00:00:32
Schiff
>> It's also clear from your report that during that Russian outreach to the Trump campaign, no one associated with the Trump campaign ever called the...
00:00:44
Mueller
>>I don’t know that for sure.
00:00:47
Schiff
>>In fact, the campaign welcomed the Russian help, did they not?
00:00:51
Mueller
>>I think we report in our -- in the report indications that that occurred, yes.
00:00:56
Schiff
>> The President's son said when he was approached about dirt on Hillary Clinton that the Trump campaign would love it.
00:01:03
Mueller
>> That is generally what was said, yes.
00:01:06
Schiff
>> The President himself called on the Russians to hack Hillary's emails?
00:01:10
Mueller
>> There was a statement by the President in those general lines.
00:01:15
Schiff
>> Numerous times during the campaign the President praised the releases of the Russian-hacked emails through wikileaks.
00:01:22
Mueller
>> That did occur.
00:01:25
Schiff
>> Your report found that the Trump campaign planned, quote, a press strategy, communications campaign and messaging, unquote, based on that Russian...
00:01:34
Mueller
>> I am not familiar with that.
00:01:36
Schiff
>> That language comes from volume one, page 54. Apart from the Russian's wanting to help Trump win, several individuals associated with the Trump...
00:01:53
Mueller
>> That is true.
00:01:54
Schiff
>> Paul Manafort was trying to make money or achieve debt forgiveness from a Russian oligarch?
00:02:02
Mueller
>> That's generally accurate.
00:02:04
Schiff
>> Flynn was trying to make money from Turkey?
00:02:06
Mueller
>> True.
00:02:07
Schiff
>> Donald Trump was trying to make millions from a real estate deal in Moscow.
00:02:12
Mueller
>> To the extent you're talking about the hotel deal in Moscow?
00:02:15
Schiff
>> Yes.
00:02:16
Mueller
>> Yes.
00:02:18
Schiff
>> When your investigation looked into these matters, numerous people lied --
00:02:22
Mueller
>> Number of persons that we interviewed in our investigation it turns out did lie.
00:02:28
Schiff
>> Mike Flynn lied?
00:02:29
Mueller
>> He was convicted of lying, yes.
00:02:32
Schiff
>> George Papadopoulos was convicted of lying?
00:02:37
Mueller
>> Yes.
00:02:38
Schiff
>> Paul Manafort went so far as to encourage other people to lie.
00:02:43
Mueller
>> That's accurate.
00:02:44
Schiff
>> Rick Gates lied?
00:02:45
Mueller
>> That's accurate.
00:02:47
Schiff
>> Michael Cohen, the President's lawyer was indicted for lying?
00:02:50
Mueller
>> True.
00:02:51
Schiff
>> He lied to stay on message with the President?
00:02:55
Mueller
>> Allegedly by him.
00:02:56
Schiff
>> And when Donald Trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that was also false, was it not?
00:03:01
Mueller
>> I'd like to think so, yes.
00:03:04
Schiff
>> Well, your investigation is not a witch hunt, is it?
00:03:06
Mueller
>> It is not a witch hunt.
00:03:07
Schiff
>> When the President said the Russian interference was a hoax, that was false, wasn't it?
00:03:12
Mueller
>> True.
00:03:12
Schiff
>> When he said it publicly it was false?
00:03:17
Mueller
>> He did say publicly that it was false, yes.
00:03:21
Schiff
>> And when he told it to Putin, that was false too, wasn't it?
00:03:25
Mueller
>> That I'm not familiar with.
00:03:26
Schiff
>> When the President said he had no business dealings with Russia, that was false, wasn't it?
00:03:31
Mueller
>> I'm not going to go into the details of the report along these loans [lines].
00:03:39
Schiff
>> When the President said he had no business dealings with Russia he was seeking to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, was he not?
00:03:46
Mueller
>>I think there's some question about when this was accomplished.
00:03:50
Schiff
>> You would consider a billion dollar deal to build a tower in Moscow to be business dealings, wouldn't you?
00:03:59
Mueller
>> Absolutely.
00:03:59
Schiff
>> In short, your investigation found evidence that Russia want to help Trump win the election
00:04:05
Mueller
>> I think generally that would be accurate.
00:04:08
Schiff
>> Russia informed campaign officials of that?
00:04:11
Mueller
>> I'm not certain to what conversation you're referring to.
00:04:15
Schiff
>> Well, through an intermediary they informed Papadopoulos they could help with the unanimous release of stolen emails?
00:04:23
Mueller
>> Accurate.
00:04:25
Schiff
>> Russia committed federal crimes to help Donald Trump?
00:04:27
Mueller
>> When you're talking about the computer crimes charged in our case, absolutely.
00:04:32
Schiff
>> The Trump campaign officials built their strategy, their messaging strategy around the stolen documents?
00:04:35
Mueller
>> Generally, that's true.
00:04:40
Schiff
>> And then they lied to cover it up?
00:04:45
Mueller
>> Generally, that's true.
I hope enough Americans get a chance to hear it.