Dolly Lithwick, host of the Amicus podcast from Slate, the notion of our harmonious politics

felt like it was pierced on Tuesday when a letter special counsel Mueller wrote to Attorney

General Bill Barr leaked.

What did it say?

Yeah, this was a letter that a slightly irate Bob Mueller wrote on March 27 after the

initial summary came out of the Mueller report that was the one in which pretty perfunct

tourally, Attorney General Barr said no collusion and no obstruction.

And it seems that Mueller was a little bit upset at the way that had been characterized

and he pushed back a little bit and essentially said what you have put out there has created

quote public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.

This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the department appointed the special

counsel to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.

He went on to say, I created summaries, use our summaries and don't use your own and

we know that Mueller doesn't talk this way.

And so I think it's fair to say he was legitimately quite frustrated with the rollout and with

the initial capturing of the narrative.

And so really when Barr sat down to testify, he was already wrong footed by the leaking

of something that essentially said Mueller thinks you kind of blew it on the rollout.

Is it any accident this letter leaked Tuesday night just before Barr was set to testify in

front of Congress on Wednesday morning?

I don't think so.

I think it's been plain that there has been a growing divergence between the story Mueller

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