Robert Mueller Testimony, Cognitive Decline and Performance
Robert Mueller appeared before Congress to testify regarding his investigation into Russian election interference and potential obstruction of justice. Observers noted that Mueller appeared physically frail and struggled to answer questions, frequently referring back to the written report or claiming the subject was outside his purview. The presence of an FBI aide next to him was interpreted as a "security blanket" for a witness who seemed incapable of withstanding rigorous cross-examination.
robert mueller· mueller report· house judiciary committee· cognitive decline· fbi
00:00 Robert Mueller's my dad. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I've been reading the Mueller report and we're in it. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Well... Biomission? I'm sorry, bi... We're in it bio... Proof! Proof that it's true, biomission. Yeah. Well how was your day yesterday? Ugh. Yeah, exactly. What a jip. It was a jip. It's a total jip. Actually, I have a different word for it.
00:54 Cruel. Well, there's an element of cruelty. No, no, no, it's a big element. Robert Mueller was my dad three years ago, and my dad is now toast. I hate to say it. This, this, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it. Well, what do us explain with more detail? He is okay. I mean the fact that he looks like a corpse No, he when you are testified I've looked I've seen a lot of Bob Mueller testimonies and a lot of them where he lied a lot but yes, but and by the way Didn't we'd like outline a whole bunch of his kind of screwy rotten, you know quote-unquote wrongdoings and and
01:42 and throwing people in jail unnecessarily, and going after people that shouldn't have gone after. There's a lot of screwball stuff in this guy's background, just like Comey. Well, here, listen to him on the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. As Director Tennant has pointed out, Secretary Powell presented evidence last week that Baghdad has failed to disarm its weapons of mass destruction, willfully attempting to evade and deceive the international community. Our particular concern is that Saddam Hussein may supply terrorists with biological, chemical, or radiological material. Now, he's always been pretty good at reading and he was pretty decent at reading yesterday. Whenever he read, he could get through it. But you know, when you're testifying and you're covering things up, because that's what he's done throughout his career,
02:37 And you have a whole bunch of legal things you need to think about when you're answering. Your filter's gotta be pretty damn active, because you have tons of filters. What can I say? What can I not say? And he basically just put one up there. Say nothing, refer them to report. It's beyond my purview. He actually said, I don't know, maybe twice. But this was mean. Clearly the Democrats had no idea, or most of them had no idea that he was incapable of withstanding any type of cross-examination, or any examination. Someone knew, and that's why they put the... The minute I heard it, I thought, oh, it's going to have an FBI guy next to him. Why?
03:21 And that was his safety. What was that stooge doing there? That was his... Did he have a kill button? That's his... Did he have a little button that was close range? That was his security... Was he gonna blow his head off? That was his security blanket. That's what that was about. In case he completely keeled over, that guy would jump in. It was I could not believe the answers he was giving here's an example. I don't want to testify Don't call me. I'll call you I knew him not a very nice fellow That's kind of what he sounded like nice try
