Mueller Hearing Review as told by OMA:
So just finished watching the hearing in its entirety.
Democrats:
Dems clearly had a plan. It played out well for them. Their main focus was on 5 different obstruction of justice bullet points in section 2 of Mueller's report. They came out of the gate strong with Nadler's opening statement and it served great purpose for the Democratic talking points:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfZrSDnnGSQ
As they zig zagged 5 minutes, each member of the Democratic side of the committee went down their list on how Trump Obstructed Justice. Almost (in fact i believe zero) none of them spoke about how Trump did not 'collude' with Russia. Thus, in my opinion, missed the blaring fact that Trump did not break any laws and therefore its hard to obstruct justice when there is nothing to obstruct.
They did however, do a great job of painting Trump as a child, kicking and screaming about this investigation. Trump does not come out looking good by any means.
Its my best guess they will have a plan for impeachment hearings coming shortly. We will also see in sync MSM talking points in conjunction with House/Senate Democrats starting later this afternoon and will be pounded as main headlines for the next 3 days to 2 weeks.
Republicans:
Clearly not as organized as the Dems. Their main focus was on how the entire investigation began and did an okay job of outlining the fact that Trump never ended the investigation when he had the legal power to do so.
Counter opening statement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrf7U8bUE24
The best highlight was of course Jim Jordan. This dude is a boss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EbrfiAxjY0&feature
I also liked Mr. Johnsons summary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQPGedzF_c
I believe it will be the Republican strategy to pivot the conversation to FISA/Dossier abuse. They will do this by constructing their talking points around the Barr investigation into the origins of the Mueller probe. That report should be dropping any day now.
Who controls the narrative in the next two weeks will be pivotable to swaying public opinion.
Mueller:
Clearly did not want to be there. It seemed like he was in sync with the dems though. Almost as if they had a walk through prior. Can't prove that by any means, but man, he was firing off answers to them much much quicker than he was to the Republicans.
Also, seems old and decrepit. He refused to answer many many questions.
Here is an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHasBjRJAbc
Over the entire hearing, it is clear to me, he is/was biased. Thats while attempting to take a non biased observation of the hearing.
Overall:
As stated, i think the dems will go down impeachment on obstruction. It will be the death of them as they did not do a great job of convincing me Trump did anything wrong.
Republicans need to stay united and get the answers needed on FISA abuse. If they can do that, they will be able to fight against what i'm sure is 24/7 Trump basing in the MSM.