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Virginia Heffernan: Robert Mueller's hearings were heading nowhere — until Adam Schiff spoke up

During the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Wednesday morning, Republicans badgered Robert S. Mueller III with sticky names that they often mispronounced. Joseph Mifsud. Natalia Veselnitskaya. Peter Strzok. The special counsel's investigation, they bellowed, was somehow ill-intentioned. Mueller looked at them blankly.

The Democrats, meanwhile, mansplained the Mueller report to the man who oversaw it, often reading it aloud and waiting for him to nod and say, "True."

If Republicans were speaking only to President Trump, Democrats seemed to be speaking straight to

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