Ranking House Oversight Committee member Jim Jordan (R-OH) said on Sunday that he supports having special counsel Robert Mueller testify in front of Congress.
Mueller said on Wednesday that any testimony that he would give to Congress wouldn’t go beyond anything he’s already said in his report on the Russia probe. House Democrats such as Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) said they still want Mueller to testify regardless, while Senate Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and fellow committee member John Kennedy (R-LA) have shut the door on the Russia probe.
That’s where Jordan breaks with his Republican colleagues in the Senate.
“You just said you wanted to hear from Robert Mueller, so you believe he should testify?” George Stephanopoulos asked Jordan.
“That’s up to Jerry Nadler,” the GOP lawmaker replied. “I know this, I got questions for him.”
However, Jordan said that his line of questioning would focus on the origins of the Russia probe, which Republicans claim sprung from “anti-Trump bias” at the FBI.
“I think the one question most Americans want to know: When did you first learn there was no collusion?” Jordan said.
Watch the congressman’s interview below:
Ranking Oversight Committee GOPer Rep. Jim Jordan supports having Robert Mueller testify in front of Congress: "I know this: I got questions for him" pic.twitter.com/wkRUOWDoKv
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Yep, Gym. I’m sure you’ll be able to pin him to the mat in no time. No reversals, no escapes. A clean take down, no doubt.
How is it possible to be in the same room with this person and not punch him in the face? Asking for a friend.
I predict that he will come off well, only to the die hard cultists.
He will come off as trying to browbeat harrangue Mueller to moderates (that is still GOPers (not on the hill) who are either skeptical of Trump, or are already never trumpers) and independents.
And he will look like the huge ass that he is to all of the rest of us.
Meanwhile the group Republicans for the Rule of Law group that released the powerful video of republican prosecutors former GOP admin lawyers, is doing this. If there is ever a chance that a few others might get the spine to stand with Amash, I think it will be because (at least in part) of the efforts of this group. Advanced credit (if it happens) where credit is due.
Video, in case you missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4E4Nv5ues3BNPjcDNxStmA
Hopefully, the committee will bring duct tape to put over this guy’s yapper.
I get the feeling he’d start a question but when Mueller looks at him he’d turn into a gibbering mess