Nadler: ‘No Need’ For Mueller To Testify If His Report ‘Answers All Our Questions’

FBI Director Robert Mueller is sworn in on on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee as it holds an oversight hearing on the FBI. Mueller is near... FBI Director Robert Mueller is sworn in on on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee as it holds an oversight hearing on the FBI. Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head of the law enforcement agency that is conducting high-profile investigations of the Boston Marathon bombings, the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and leaks of classified government information. The committee's chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said when it comes to national security leaks, it's important to balance the need to protect secrecy with the need to let the news media do their job. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said Sunday that he could call special counsel Robert Mueller before the committee to testify “if necessary, but that’s a very big ‘if.'”

In an interview with NBC News’ Chuck Todd, Nadler said Mueller “speaks through [the] report” that he concluded Friday, and that “if that report answers all our questions, there will be no need to call him.”

He added: “If that report is not public, if large parts of it are not made public, or if it leaves a lot of questions, then we’d have a necessity to call him.”

“You don’t call witnesses unnecessarily,” Nadler said.

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  1. Great, Jerry. The first one should be: Since we all heard the Moron tell Lester Holt that Comey’s firing should get rid of the “Russia thing,” doesn’t that constitute obstruction of justice?

  2. Avatar for outis outis says:

    If his report answers all our questions, and we get to see it (all of it).

  3. Yeah, I thought that was an obvious “Duh!” myself.

  4. Avatar for outis outis says:

    It might be fair to observe that the condition is presumed in his comment, but I wanted to say it out loud anyway. (If they hold back substantive parts of the report, it probably will not answer all our questions. If nothing else, it would open the question “where is the rest of it?”)

  5. Has the motherfucker resigned yet?

    Asking for Lady Liberty and 62,999,999 other friends.

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