WASHINGTON: Former Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller finally faces congressional interrogators on Wednesday, testifying in televised hearings that Democrats hope will weaken President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects in ways that Mueller’s book-length report did not. Republicans are ready to defend Trump and turn their fire on Mueller and his team instead.
The back-to-back Capitol Hill appearances, Mueller’s first since wrapping his two-year Russia probe last spring, carry the extraordinary spectacle of a prosecutor discussing in public a criminal investigation he conducted in to a sitting U.S. president. The hearings come at an instant of deep divisions in Congress and the nation, and they raise serious questions about whether Mueller will change anyone’s hardened opinions about impeachment and the ongoing future of Trump’s presidency.
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