From CNN's recent poll: How much of the Mueller report have you read?

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I have most of it--took me a week.

I am waiting to hear Muellers public testimony.




Max Boot Verified account @MaxBoot
3h3 hours ago

Max Boot Retweeted Brian Stelter

This is why more people don’t support impeachment.

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From CNN's recent poll: How much of the Mueller report have you read?

All of it: 3%
Some of it: 10%
Just a little: 8%
Mainly news reports: 3%
Have not read report: 75%
10:21 AM - 5 May 2019



Brittany
‏ @Brittan09737431
3h3 hours ago
Replying to @brianstelter @oufenix

this is exactly what Barr knew would happen tho...he wants to pretend he is being transparent by releasing the full report... bc he knows there is ZERO chance americans will read a 400+ pg report, thats why he didnt release the summaries, this was how he could bury it
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OUFENIX (D)
‏ @oufenix
3h3 hours ago

Exactly! I wish Washington media knew how few people actually follow this stuff! If they did, they'd know EXACTLY why he did what he did.
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JCrongeyer
‏ @JCrongeyer
7h7 hours ago

Replying to @brianstelter @BurnettCynthia

And thus the need for public hearings!
Not that corporate news media will make anything other than the mundane available for prime time news viewing(when most can see what’s happening)

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1. 'Mainly news reports' - 3%

[triron]

3. That one I don't believe. Wonder if that includes local newpapers?

[triron]

2. Americans just don't care. Sad but true. That's a big reason we are losing our 'democracy'.

[empedocles]

5. Fair amount of the problem, imo, is that trump still dominates the daily news cycle.

Kardashian like publicity saturation works.

As the Congressional Investigations heat up, along with the sharp Pelosi comments, and Biden daily on trump - all this will help.

[It would help if presidential candidates would couch their campaign policies in loud contrast to trump].

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6. I really hope you are right. These hearings need to be consecutive not disjointed. Questions

need to be coordinated. I don't understand why that is not done all the time.

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4. The vast majority of people made up their minds on Trump long, long ago.

The people who support him wouldn't bother reading it because they have already formed opinions and nothing will change their minds.

The people who don't support him may not or don't need to read it because they have similarly-formed, but very different, opinions. Plus, some are working from the summaries that have been provided by the media and other sources (though, based on this poll, not as many as I would have expected.)

"And thus the need for public hearings!"

The public hearings worked to some degree with Nixon, but Trump is not Nixon, and public sentiment didn't really start to significantly change until the tapes bombshell.

I suspect public hearings on Trump would be approached by the electorate in largely the same way as the Mueller Report. They'll confirm preconceived notions that the majority of the electorate already has about Trump. His supporters will continue to think it's all fake. We know better.

If we expect public hearings to change the minds of a significant number of people, however, we might end up being disappointed. There may be a few still on the fence, but for the most part, sides were picked years ago.

Note: all of that being said, public hearings are necessary in whatever form, regardless of how they will be perceived or processed. The public should be provided with as much information as possible about the House investigations and the investigations being handled by other jurisdictions, if for no other reason than to inform them going into 2020.

[UniteFightBack]

7. If it were not for those tapes, Nixon would not have been impeached and would of CONTINUED to enjoy

the support of most of the Republicons....if not all.

[TwilightZone]

8. Agreed.

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9. CNN expects people who work for a living to read a 400 page report?

absurd

That's why CNN exists. To inform people.

I agree. Public hearings.

[riversedge]

10. congressional House public hearings are essential. That is a TRUTH.