House Democrats to read the entire Mueller report aloud on floor of Congress on Thursday

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

House Democrats to read the entire Mueller report aloud on floor of Congress on Thursday
BOB BRIGHAM
14 MAY 2019 AT 19:15 ET

House Democrats announced a new effort on Tuesday to educate the American people on the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

“More than 20 House Democrats will stage a marathon public reading of the entire redacted Mueller report beginning Thursday at noon, and likely ending in the early morning hours of Friday,” The Washington Post announced.


The effort is being organized by Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), the vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee.

“We’ve been saying for weeks that if you think there was no obstruction and no collusion, you haven’t read the Mueller report. So the ongoing quest has been, ‘How do we get that story out there while we are waiting for the witnesses to come in?’” Scanlon explained.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/house-democrats-to-read-the-entire-mueller-report-aloud-on-floor-of-congress-on-thursday/?utm_source=push_notifications

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[msongs]

1. raw story lol nt

[George II]

3. Washington Post.

[SoCalNative]

11. WaPo article

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/14/house-democrats-plan-marathon-public-reading-mueller-report/?utm_term=.d2ffbd8af16e

[Judi Lynn]

25. Thanks for the link. I can't get past the paywall after using my free alottment. Very helpful. n/t

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

50. Judi, clear your computer or device cache and cookies...

Resets your 10 articles. Works for NYT also. Try just clearing the cache first, that alone may do the trick.

[Maxheader]

2. I don't give a rats ass about any modified document concerning the traitors

pre-election activities. I want the whole report...as it was created.
Redacted means they have something to hide..

[pandr32]

4. The redacted report contradicts Barr and Trump

Even though there is missing information, what is there paints a picture that needs to be put forward.

[coeur_de_lion]

6. I still love this though

They're keeping the talk going. Keeping it in the news so people don't forget about it. Getting what we do have, which is very damning, into the congressional record.

[jmowreader]

20. A lot of the redactions are related to ongoing investigations

I read the redacted report and it is seriously very bad for Trump. It makes a VERY clear case that there was both collusion and obstruction. Unfortunately, Barr got the report stopped before they had it firmed up enough to throw anyone in prison.

But that's coming.

[NewJeffCT]

38. I'm almost done with the redacted report as well

and I agree that it is really bad for Trump.

However, unless they read select portions of the report, it's going to take a lot more than just Thursday to read it all into the record - the professionally narrated audiobook is 19 hours long.

[Magoo48]

46. Agreed,

Have Mueller bring the unabused report to the House and read that to it’s true owners: the American people. Everything else is horseshit and gunsmoke.

[Honeycombe8]

53. I agree. Wait for the full report. nt

[malaise]

5. Great idea

Rec

[C_U_L8R]

7. Somebody please

Slip them the full unredacted report. We need truth.

[cstanleytech]

8. And if I recall there is exactly jack shit Trump and his Repugnant lapdogs

can legally do to prevent them.

[lunatica]

9. Pretty sneaky huh?

[onecaliberal]

10. Yes, fantastic idea.

[targetpractice]

12. Good idea... BUT...

... I wish they'd schedule the conclusions to be read in prime time...

The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President 's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law .

At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.

[mopinko]

40. that part doesnt matter. this lets the media pick and choose tasty bits

to go on an endless loop on the teevee machine, and that is the most important thing they can do right now.

let 1,000 clips blossom.

[sandensea]

13. Nice! Reminiscent of Mike Gravel's reading the Pentagon Papers into the record in '71.

Would've been even better if they could have found a way to read the redacted sections as well.

But that's coming.

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. Let's go Congresspeople: slip on your Depends and DO IT!

[onetexan]

56. Lol

[Ramsey Barner]

15. What if a whistleblower . . .

provided the unredacted report to Congress specifically for this reading. As noted above, no laws would be broken (by the reading representatives) and the redacted sections would become public.

Hey. a guy can dream!

[Ramsey Barner]

18. On second thought,

it's not clear to me if the report will be read into the Congressional record, or whether the 20 Democrats in the House Rules Committee Room on Thursday will simply read the report out loud in a non-legislative capacity. If it's the latter, they may not be covered by the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, and my dream of justice dies a painful death!

[zentrum]

16. We need more of this

....kind of thing.

[Politicub]

17. Finally - it's getting lost

It’s about so much more than Trump’s vanity.

[Doreen]

19. Marathon? Redacted version?

That will be easy to sit through. I mean for how much it has been redacted it might be a half an hour marathon.

[Judi Lynn]

26. It starts at noon, and they anticipate it could go past midnight. I plan to hear the whole thing. nt

[NewJeffCT]

39. Mentioned this above

but I'm listening to the audiobook (free to download at audible.com) - it is professionally narrated and clocks in at a bit over 19 hours, and those are professional narrators.

[Generic Brad]

21. What took them so long?

This should have been done within a week of its release.

[Judi Lynn]

27. Maybe it's good to keep it in the public view as long as possible. n/t

[More_Cowbell]

22. I wish they'd get celebrities to read it! nt

[Funtatlaguy]

34. Hillary should read it.

[Jedi Guy]

47. Imagine if they got Stephen Fry to read it.

Or Morgan Freeman, the voice of God! Or James Earl Jones, Darth Vader himself! Or maybe Samuel L. Jackson. I bet plenty of celebrities would be happy to speak as guests of the Democratic majority.

[Doitnow]

23. Thom Hartmann has been reading sections of it on line----don't know if he's

reading all of it.

[emmaverybo]

24. I want to see Gym Jordan and the rest of the Freedom stoppers' faces during the reading. Can

they be forced please to sit through the whole marathon? Grassley would be apoplectic. Oh, and what is Trump going to do? He might send his bikers and his military and his police in to arrest the readers.
Let Barr try to summarize this.

[ancianita]

28. Why can't they wait for the unredacted? The public can handle classified info. Millions of us

already have classified clearance, anyway.

The rough stuff should be in the Congressional Record, too, imo.

[emmaverybo]

29. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Keeping it creative, cause we have to. nt

[EveHammond13]

30. can it be viewed on CSPAN? I'm going to watch.

[True Blue American]

31. Probably CSPan 3

Could be on 1. But there will be reruns. You can bet on that!

[Judi Lynn]

33. Looking forward to it, so much. It would be a rare opportunity, after so many disappointments,

like not seeing Mueller in a hearing, yet.

[Judi Lynn]

32. I didn't see that, yet. C-Span sounds like the place you'd hope to see it. n/t

[True Blue American]

36. CSPAN 1

Broadcasts the House. 2 ,the Senate.

And I would not be surprised to see some of it on the Cable News.

[Funtatlaguy]

35. Green eggs and spam. Russia elected me, Trump I am.

[watoos]

37. If the idea is to keep control of the narrative, good luck,

How many people are going to watch for 12 hours? I mean the report is available to read on line at one's leisure.

There is a way for Democrats to control the narrative, start impeachment proceedings.

Anyone should have seen what was going to happen, especially if dumb me predicted it. Trump/Barr changed the narrative by starting another investigation of the FBI and Democrats who carried out a witch hunt against Donald Trump. That's the narrative now on the M$M. See, Trump was right all along, he was spied on by the deep state, that's the narrative. This new Barr investigation is going to drag on right up to the election so that Trump can control the narrative.

Americans are swayed by sound bites not by marathon reading sessions. While Democrats are busy reading the redacted Mueller report Republicans will be on cable news claiming "No Collusion, No Obstruction, the deep state, rogue FBI agents and Hillary and Obama spied on Trump."

I hope I'm wrong. I mean Republicans are violating the Constitution, would it help if Democrats held a marathon session and read the Constitution?

My local cable provider doesn't carry C-Span. Now if they were reading the un-redacted Mueller report people would tune in.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

41. If we want the American people to pay attention

We need to serialize the readings. And get some heavy hitter actors in there to read it. Maybe some special effects would help. Get those production values up!

Sad but true.

[jayschool2013]

43. Yes.

And distribution is key. More than CSPAN and MSNBC. Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc.

[Jedi Guy]

48. I suggested some guest celebrities in my post above.

Stephen Fry. Morgan Freeman. James Earl Jones. Samuel L. Jackson. Maybe Chris Evans, so it's Captain America reading the report. Given how most celebrities feel about Trump, I bet plenty would be happy to volunteer as guest speakers of the Democratic majority.

[jayschool2013]

42. Good start

I'd like to see the motion picture, though. More middle-of-the-road types would see it on the Netflix or the Hulu than they will on CSPAN or MSNBC.

[kimbutgar]

44. I wonder if those old fart repukes who call into CSPAN will watch it on Thursday?

[wolfie001]

45. Give AOC all the best parts!

[Jedi Guy]

49. Or have AOC and Hillary trade off reading the best parts.

Trump would be apoplectic seeing that on the evening news. He might even have a debilitating stroke. Wouldn't that just be awful?

[wolfie001]

54. Oh Yeah! Ha ha!

[stillcool]

51. oooh nice....must see tv!

I haven't finished reading it yet.

[LonePirate]

52. No, they are reading the redacted report, not the full report. Big difference.

[Judi Lynn]

55. HOW TO WATCH HOUSE MEMBERS READ FULL REDACTED MUELLER REPORT STARTING NOON ON THURSDAY

BY KATHERINE HIGNETT ON 5/15/19 AT 6:12 AM EDT

From noon Thursday, more than 20 Democratic representatives will read out the entire redacted Mueller report at the Capitol. And organizer Representative Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania thinks that number is likely to grow.

According to The Washington Post, which reported the news Tuesday, the lengthy reading will be live-streamed and later shared as an audiobook. The session will take place in the House Rules Committee Room, and Scanlon estimated it could take between 12 and 14 hours.

Gabby Richards, Scanlon's communications director, told Newsweek the congresswoman's team is planning to stream the event live on her social media accounts and via YouTube. This article will be updated with the link when it is available. The live video may be broadcast through other outlets, but Scanlon's team is still working to finalize this.

Richards confirmed a podcast-style recording of the reading will be made available free of charge on streaming platforms such as SoundCloud and Spotify.

More:
https://www.newsweek.com/mueller-report-house-reading-mary-gay-scanlon-jerry-nadler-donald-trump-1425891