On the recordOctober 18, 2019
He was an employee and working for the Justice Department. He was under the aegis of the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He was not an independent actor, a special prosecutor. He was an employee of the Justice Department. And the rules that Mueller followed under the Justice Department are that you cannot indict a President. He said, however, the Congress can take action. He said that. He said we were the proper authority to take action in a case like this. We are doing that. He puts a lot of emphasis on ``inquiry.'' Investigation, inquiry, hearing--it is a fact-finding process in the pursuit of our constitutional duties to find out whether high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed by the President of the United States. It is a hearing. It is an investigation. Call it an inquiry. The Speaker said ``inquiry.'' I adopt that language--investigation, hearing, whatever the language is.
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