Much of Washington will stop in its tracks Wednesday as former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill on his findings on Russia’s 2016 election interference. The Justice Department on Monday told Mueller his testimony should not go beyond information that has already been released publically. Retired Ripon College political science professor, Marty Farrell, says that won’t stop Democrats on the House Judiciary and Intelligience committees from asking whether he thought the president committed a crime. On the other hand, Farrell says Republicans will likely have Mueller reiterate his findings that he did not establish there was a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians who interfered. In the end, Farrell says the question is whether Mueller’s testimony will give further fuel to those who support impeachment proceedings against Trump, or bring that effort to an end.
