from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, March 23rd.

With the passing announced this weekend of former FBI director and Vietnam veteran, Robert Mueller, best known in his later years as leading the so-called Mueller investigation of the first Trump presidential campaign's involvement with Russia, also known as the Russia investigation,

we'll get some thoughts now from a lead prosecutor on Mueller's investigating team.

After that investigation, Andrew Weissman wrote the

best-selling book called Where Law Ends Inside the Mueller Investigation. In that book, Weissman was

fairly critical of Mueller, largely for being too cautious in that probe, leading to conclusions

that may have been too much of letting Trump off the hook.

Andrew Weissman has also been General Counsel for the FBI, under Mueller,

co-hosts the MS Now podcast called Main Justice,

and has a new book coming out in May called Liar's Kingdom,

How to Stop Trump Deceit and Save America.

Andrew, we appreciate that you're giving us

some time today. Welcome back to WNYC. Nice to be here, Brian. Before we get to the Mueller investigation

and his legacy around that, would you like to eulogize the man a little more broadly first?

You knew him for a long time and before he became a household name in relation

to Donald Trump. Sure. Well, I think people know that he devoted his life to public service.

As you noted, he was in their Marines and was a decorated Marine. He has somebody who volunteered to be in the military

after growing up in a very well-to-do background,

having gone to Princeton, and then chose to serve his country.

And he then chose to serve his country throughout his life,

dedicating his time to not being in private

practice, but to serving all of us from beginning to end. And one thing I think is worth

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