It is pretty clear to many of us that Democrats are moving towards impeachment. The House Whip made that clear as day and he would know more than anyone.
Democrats would like public opinion to shift before impeachment so the goal is to use the summer to bring the Mueller report to life so that most Americans are actually aware of what it says rather than Barr's propaganda.
And it looks like the Democrats are going to be off to a great start on June 10th.
The House Judiciary to hold series of hearings on Mueller report
The House Judiciary Committee will hold the hearings beginning next week, Chairman Jerry Nadler announced Monday. The first hearing will feature testimony by John Dean, the former White House counsel whose bombshell testimony during Watergate paved the way for President Nixon's resignation.
The first hearing in the series, entitled "Lessons from the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes," will take place on June 10 and feature testimony from Dean, former U.S. attorneys and legal experts.
this is part of a larger strategy:
“Attorney General Barr did a very effective number on the country,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee. “He did everything in his power to create a thick fog of propaganda around the country and then to force us into these fights over process. But we’re getting back on track.
That phase would involve hearings in June and July featuring former prosecutors who can walk Americans through the allegations of obstruction of justice, witness intimidation and the dangling of pardons. The committee may also focus on Trump’s business entanglements and whether he’s received any unauthorized payments from foreign governments — known as emoluments.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said he anticipates calling a bipartisan panel of prosecutors who recently signed a letter arguing that Mueller’s evidence proves Trump obstructed justice — and that Trump would have been charged if he weren’t the president.
“At some point you’re going to see a panel of federal prosecutors come in about the letter that they signed,” said Lieu, also a Judiciary Committee member. “We’ll also hold hearings on witness intimidation. We’ll hold hearings on abuse of power. Just because Mueller doesn’t come in doesn’t mean we don’t continue with these.”
It’s all part of a strategy, Democrats say, to bring the allegations off the pages of the 448-page Mueller report — which they worry few Americans will actually read — and onto Americans’ television screens.
This will be a summer of educating the public about what trump did and why it was wrong. This is a very careful and very serious prelude to impeachment hearings.