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🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
0:05.5 | Brooke Gladstone is out this week. |
0:07.7 | I'm Bob Garfield. |
0:09.3 | The latest chapter of the ongoing saga of the Mueller investigation and executive branch |
0:15.1 | mischief ratcheted up yet again this week. |
0:19.2 | Pretty dramatically, actually. |
0:21.6 | This is Democratic Senator Maisie Hirono of Hawaii, |
0:25.7 | giving a shout out to journalists for once again revealing administration misdirection. |
0:32.0 | And now we know, thanks to a free press, |
0:34.9 | that Mr. Mueller wrote your letter objecting to your so-called summary. |
0:39.3 | Hirona was grilling Attorney General Bill Barr at a hearing Wednesday of the Senate Judiciary Committee |
0:44.5 | where Democrats wanted to know why his now infamous four-page summary mischaracterized Mueller's |
0:51.5 | investigatory conclusions and why Barr then mischaracterized the |
0:56.8 | special counsel's written objections to the summary. |
1:00.2 | When you called Mueller to discuss his letter, the reports are that he thought your summary |
1:05.2 | was giving the press, Congress, and the public a misleading impression of his work. |
1:10.2 | Once again, the press found itself to be a major character in the Mueller investigation narrative, |
1:15.6 | most especially when fingered by Barr at his initial press conference on the report, |
1:20.6 | as a sort of unindicted co-conspirator in an unholy witch hunt. |
1:25.6 | There was relentless speculation in the news media about the president's personal culpability. |
1:31.8 | Yet, as he said from the beginning, there was, in fact, no collusion. |
1:36.9 | So persistent and unfair was the coverage, Barr testified on Wednesday. |
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