Took awhile for the transcripts to get to this point but ........... Obstruction, witness tampering,
conspiracy, and questionable forthrightness in his written responses. MAGA Win for the repubs.
Mr. Welch:
01:56:10 Director Mueller, did you find there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia?
Robert Mueller:
01:56:18 Well, we don’t use the word collusion. The word we usually use is the … well not not collusion, but one of the other terms that that fills in when collusion is not used. In any event, we decided not use the word collusion in as much as it has no relevance to the criminal law arena.
Mr. Welch:
01:56:52 The term is conspiracy that you prefer to use.
Robert Mueller:
01:56:55 Conspiracy. Exactly right.
Mr. Welch:
01:56:56 You help me, I’ll help you.
Robert Mueller:
01:56:58 Thank you.
Mr. Welch:
01:56:58 It’s an agreement. Thank you. And in fact you had to then make a charging decision after your investigation where unless there was enough evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt, you wouldn’t make a charge, correct?
Robert Mueller:
01:57:14 Generally that’s the case.
Mr. Welch:
01:57:15 But making that decision does not mean your investigation failed to turn up evidence of conspiracy.
Robert Mueller:
01:57:22 Absolutely correct.
Mr. Welch:
01:57:23 And in fact, I’ll go through some of the significant findings that your exhaustive investigation made. You found, as I understand it, that from May 2016 until the end of the campaign, campaign chairman Mr Manafort gave private polling information to Russian agents, correct?
Robert Mueller:
01:57:42 Right.
Mr. Welch:
01:57:44 And-
Speaker 7:
01:57:44 Could you speak into the microphone?
Robert Mueller:
01:57:45 I will. My apologies.
Mr. Welch:
01:57:48 Thank you. And your investigation found that in June 2016, Donald Trump Jr made an arrangement to meet at Trump Tower along with Jared Kushner and others expecting to receive dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign, correct?
Robert Mueller:
01:58:03 Correct.
Mr. Welch:
01:58:05 And you found in your investigation that on July 27th candidate Trump called up on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails something that for the first time they did about five hours later, correct?
Robert Mueller:
01:58:19 That’s correct.