After months of back-and-forth with Democrats, former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the U.S. House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on Wednesday. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Sarah Frostenson and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux join Galen Druke to discuss the most relevant moments from the hearings — and whether […] Read more »
The Mueller hearing and the death of facts
Lee McIntyre, Boston University Listening to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony on June 24, the nation heard a duel over the facts. Not what the facts imply, not our response to them, but what the facts are. Founding Father John Adams once said, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Will Mueller’s testimony matter?
Few voters expect former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony will make a difference to their views of President Trump. The latest Fox News Poll, conducted Sunday through Tuesday, finds nearly half, 49 percent, say there is “no chance at all” that something Mueller says on Capitol Hill Wednesday could […] Read more »
Collusion
I’m in no position to judge the legal merits of whatever Robert Mueller says today, but the facts uncovered by the special counsel are clear: President Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia. Paul Manafort, in his capacity as campaign chairman and chief strategist, ordered Deputy Campaign Manager Richard Gates […] Read more »
Will Hearing From Mueller Really Change Americans’ Minds About His Report?
After months of calling on special counsel Robert Mueller to testify about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, House Democrats’ wish is about to come true. Mueller, who has studiously avoided the political firestorm around his findings, will now appear in back-to-back public hearings before the House […] Read more »
Democrats want Mueller to tell swing voters what Trump did wrong
When Cathy Garnaat, a Republican voter in Michigan, told NBC News in May she was unaware the Mueller report said “anything negative” about President Donald Trump, it was a bracing illustration of a stark reality: While America’s political class has been obsessively following the two-year investigation into Russia’s efforts to […] Read more »