Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell said fellow Democrats should talk more slowly and ask Robert Mueller “yes or no” questions.
“So what did you take away from this morning’s session that you’ll apply and share with your colleagues on the Intelligence Committee to get the most satisfying chunks of information from former special counsel Mueller?” MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asked the Democrat congressman from California during a break.
“I thought the best exchanges were when my colleagues would ask him if the president did x, y, or z, and he said, ‘Well, it’s in the report,’ and we were ready to read to him, ‘Well, you said in the report on Volume I, page such and such. This happened,’ and then he acknowledges it,” Swalwell said.
“And people at home were texting me and direct messaging me that they thought that was really helpful when we spoke slowly, when the questions were short, and we allowed him to answer ‘yes or no,’ considering the confines and limitations he’s put on,” he added.
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The 38-year-old congressman’s advice comes as Mueller’s testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee was panned by critics as bumbling and feeble.
