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Former special counsel Robert Mueller arrives to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
- The former special counsel Robert Mueller appeared before Congress on Wednesday for a blockbuster hearing on his findings in the FBI's Russia investigation.
- Mueller's team was conspicuously silent during its 22-month-long investigation of Russia's election interference, whether members of President Donald Trump's campaign conspired with Moscow, and if Trump sought to obstruct justice throughout the course of the probe.
- Wednesday's hearing is the second time Mueller has spoken out publicly about the investigation.
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The former special counsel Robert Mueller appeared before Congress on Wednesday for a historic hearing on his findings in the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election, and whether President Donald Trump sought to obstruct justice throughout the course of the investigation.
According to a lightly redacted version of Mueller's report that was released to the public in April, Mueller did not find sufficient evidence to charge Trump or anyone on his campaign with conspiracy related to Russia's meddling.
He declined to make a "traditional prosecutorial judgment" on whether Trump obstructed justice, but his team emphasized that if they had confidence the president did not commit a crime, they would have said so.
Mueller's report also implied that the remedy for accusing a sitting president of wrongdoing does not come from the Justice Department, but from Congress.
Since then, congressional Democrats have launched a sprawling effort to investigate Trump for potential wrongdoing, and Democratic aides told INSIDER this week that their main objective with Wednesday's hearing is to drum up public support for Trump's impeachment.