Rep. Will Hurd, a swing-district Republican from Texas, was the only GOP member to use his time in the Intelligence Committee’s hearing of former special counsel Robert Mueller productively and, well, sanely. He’s apparently the only one who doesn’t spend his spare time with QAnon.
He went to the reality of the report and the hearings: Russia succeeded in interfering with the 2016 election. Then he asked if Russia was still at it.
“They are doing it as we sit here.” We knew that already. FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee as much in a hearing Tuesday, as he has in previous hearings since the 2016 election.
Democratic Rep. Peter Welch followed up on that. He asked whether “we established a new normal from this past campaign that will apply to future campaigns” regarding foreign governments interfering in campaigns. Mueller answered, “I hope this is not the new normal, but I fear it is.” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat, asked if the government was doing enough, in Mueller’s opinion, to combat Russian interference. No, Mueller said. “Much more needs to be done, not only with Russia, but with other foreign entities as well.”