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🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's 9.30 pm on Sunday night. How was your weekend? |
0:10.0 | Yeah, super fun. How was yours? |
0:12.0 | This is Dolly Lithwick, sleep legal correspondent. |
0:17.0 | I felt like I was in labor. Like it was like a three day labor from Friday night until Saturday afternoon, |
0:24.0 | except that there was like no ice chips. |
0:27.0 | Did you want ice chips? It would have made it better. |
0:29.0 | Well, the crunch. |
0:30.0 | With my guy, I think would have made it very nice. |
0:35.0 | So was this a good weekend for President Trump? |
0:37.0 | Yeah, I think that there, I mean, even Friday night, even before we knew what we now know on Sunday night, |
0:44.0 | it was a good weekend because his kid wasn't indicted and Jared wasn't indicted. |
0:49.0 | And it felt already by Friday night. Like maybe Mueller wasn't going to indict anyone else |
0:54.0 | and the whole thing was wrapping up. And I think that, you know, it allowed him, he was very quiet. |
0:58.0 | It's clear, but I think it allowed him to feel like the massive pressure had been released. |
1:05.0 | And then I think it's fair to say that by Sunday afternoon, it was a very good weekend for President Trump. |
1:10.0 | And he tweeted as well. He's called it a complete and total exoneration. |
1:16.0 | So from the beginning, you have told me and everyone else, |
1:22.0 | not to expect a lot from the end of Robert Mueller's investigation. |
1:26.0 | You've been like, just don't, don't get excited about it. |
1:29.0 | Like don't hype yourself up about it. |
1:31.0 | Is this working out how you thought it would? |
1:33.0 | Kind of. I don't think I was ever saying that Mueller might just punt, |
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