Rep. Matt Gaetz Matthew (Matt) GaetzTrump faces tricky choice on Supreme Court pick Florida attorney general scrutinizing Bloomberg paying fines for felons to vote Lara Trump campaigns with far-right activist candidate Laura Loomer in Florida MORE (R-Fla.), an outspoken supporter of President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE, argued Thursday that former special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's testimony sucked "the life" out of the movement to impeach the president.

"Let’s remember where the goal posts were at the beginning of the week," Gaetz, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said on MSNBC a day after Mueller's congressional testimony.

"[House Intelligence Committee Chairman] Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffSchiff claims DHS is blocking whistleblower's access to records before testimony GOP lawmakers distance themselves from Trump comments on transfer of power Rubio on peaceful transfer of power: 'We will have a legitimate & fair election' MORE [D-Calif.] said that Robert Mueller would be breathing life into the Mueller report. Instead what you saw yesterday was Robert Mueller sucking the life out of the impeachment movement altogether."

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Gaetz added that "Republicans are very happy" with how the Mueller hearings went, saying lawmakers seem to have gained "no new information" from them.

He later took issue with Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiPelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Trump signs largely symbolic pre-existing conditions order amid lawsuit MORE's (D-Calif.) statement that the Democrats were waiting to build a strong case against Trump.

"It seems to presuppose that the case right now isn’t strong," Gaetz said. "The fact that they have to continue their investigative activities seems to suggest that Democrats do not believe that there is sufficient evidence in the Mueller report or from Mueller’s testimony to impeach the president.

"Nothing that you saw yesterday is going to change the underlying political dynamic, which is that the country wants the House Democratic majority to move on."

Mueller on Wednesday testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees about his nearly two-year probe into Russian interference and whether Trump committed obstruction of justice.

As he previously indicated, Mueller's testimony remained within the bounds of what his 400-plus page report stated. The former special counsel repeatedly declined to answer lawmaker's questions that went beyond the scope of the report.

However, he did confirm that his investigation did not exonerate the president of obstruction of justice and told lawmakers that the president could be indicted after he leaves office.

Dozens of House Democrats have called for impeachment proceedings to begin in the wake of the release of Mueller's report earlier this year, and more Democrats came out in favor of pursuing impeachment this week.

Pelosi said during a press conference following Mueller's testimony that Democratic leaders would only launch impeachment proceedings if they had a strong hand.

"My position has always been [that] whatever decision we make in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand, and we still have some outstanding matters in the courts," she said.