Morning Jolt: The Mueller Press Conference: More Confusion, No Clarity

Making the click-through worthwhile: How Robert Mueller dropped the ball on his one big job, the pro-life movement is on the verge of a major victory in Louisiana, a reviewer finally gives Michael Wolff what he deserves, and some far-flung strange and scary places you can read about soon.

You Had One Job, Robert Mueller!

Mueller's press conference was extraordinarily frustrating, for a variety of reasons.

First, Mueller emphasized the grammatically muddled point, "If we had had confidence that the president had clearly not committed a crime we would have said so."

As Charlie Cooke lays out, this is not the legal standard in ...

May 30 2019

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The Mueller Press Conference: More Confusion, No Clarity

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: How Robert Mueller dropped the ball on his one big job, the pro-life movement is on the verge of a major victory in Louisiana, a reviewer finally gives Michael Wolff what he deserves, and some far-flung strange and scary places you can read about soon.

You Had One Job, Robert Mueller!

Mueller's press conference was extraordinarily frustrating, for a variety of reasons.

First, Mueller emphasized the grammatically muddled point, "If we had had confidence that the president had clearly not committed a crime we would have said so."

As Charlie Cooke lays out, this is not the legal standard in ... Read More

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