On Wednesday, during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Lieu questioned Mueller about the special counsel’s two-year investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“I believe any reasonable person looking at these facts could conclude that all three elements of the crime of obstruction of justice have been met [by President Trump],” said the congressman. “And I’d like to ask you the reason, again, that you did not indict Donald Trump is because of [Office of Legal Counsel] opinion stating that you cannot indict a sitting president, correct?”

Mueller responded, “That is correct.”

Reporters and the #Resistance faithful (perhaps I repeat myself) responded by noting this exchange seemed like a big development in the effort to have the president brought to justice. However, that same day, Mueller issued a correction during a separate hearing before the House Intelligence Committee.

“I want to add one correction to my testimony this morning. I wanted to go back to one thing that was said this morning by Mr. Lieu. It was said, and I quote, ‘you didn’t charge the president because of the OLC opinion.’ That is not the correct way to say it,” said the former special counsel. “As we say in the report and as I said in the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime. And with that, Mr. Chairman, I’m ready to answer questions.”

For Lieu, one of the chief cheerleaders of the since-imploded Russian “collusion” conspiracy, it cannot be that Mueller merely misspoke and that he thought better of his answer, seeking later to correct it. No, the truth must be that someone got to him (because that is not crazy at all).

“Mueller agreed that the OLC opinion prevented a sitting president from being indicted, then the Republican member after me asked him a series of questions to try to get him to walk it back and he did not do that,” the congressman theorized on CNN. “It wasn’t until there was a recess of the Intel Committee he started to walk some of that back.”

“Are you saying he only did that because of pressure from someone?” Blitzer asked.

“I don’t know, but he clearly answered the way he answered to me, then he had numerous times to walk that back by the next Republican member who asked him a series of questions on the exact same issue trying to get him to walk it back,” the congressman answered.

He added, “I don’t really understand what happened but we all agree, Robert Mueller would agree, that there is an OLC Justice Department opinion that says the sitting president of the United States cannot be indicted.”

Don’t stop looking for answers, congressman. The truth is out there.