Wednesday, MSNBC host Ari Melber commented on former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress.
Melber said, “We saw two very different hearings in the morning and afternoon.”
He continued, “In the afternoon the question was, should the president of the United States act better than a crook? And Mueller’s answer was, ‘yes he should.’ And that’s why, as Chris and others have mentioned, we saw Mueller step outside of this narrow, formulaic legal set of elements and say of course it’s unpatriotic, of course, it’s problematic.”
He added, “At one point we saw Bob Mueller, who is not only the former special counsel but someone with a lot of national security, say not only that he fears this is the new normal, they’re attacking us today from Russia, but that he thinks, and he concludes from his work that candidate Trump boosted illegal activity by Russia. I think legally and substantively that’s a wow moment, even though we also know in fairness to the president that’s not something that Mueller found chargeable.”
He concluded, “You have also Bob Mueller by the end of the day, in his own careful way, swinging a two-by-four, but doing it the Mueller way, methodically, slowly and carefully, but nonetheless saying the president of the United States should act better than this and shouldn’t be cohorting and inviting and flirting with what Mueller said and charged as Russian election crimes.”
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