Throughout his testimony in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, and despite multiple efforts to divert him, former special counsel Robert Mueller was focused on just the two issues that were the topics of his official report: Russia's interference with the 2016 presidential campaign and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.
Republicans and Democrats alike disliked it, and found it weak, when Mueller answered their lengthy questions by referring to that report. "I rely on the language of the report," he sometimes said.
But there was nothing weak about that. He remained faithful to his opening statement, when he vowed that he would not "summarize or describe the results of our work in a different way in the course of my testimony today.