The insistence by Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler to subpoena a reluctant Robert Mueller to testify before the Committee has proved an unmitigated disaster.
Nadler had hoped that Mueller would appear before the Committee on May 15 but the Committee's 24-16 vote on party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena for the unredacted Mueller report and its underlying evidence appeared to have complicated negotiations for Mueller to testify before the Committee.