Attorney General Barr Defends His Handling Of The Mueller Report To Congress

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr defended his handling of the final stages of the inquiry in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that underscored how much the focus of official Washington has shifted from Russian interference in the 2016 election to the lingering aftermath of the inquiry for Republicans and Democrats. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:41.6	student at Georgetown University and I'm recording this from my kayak in the Ecuadorian Amazon where
0:46.4	I'm currently researching wild capybarras. Wow! This podcast was recorded at. It is 5.22 pm on Wednesday,
0:55.0	May 1st. Things may have changed by the time you hear this and a big thank you to NPR for keeping
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1:24.8	it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover politics. I'm Kerry Johnson. I cover the
1:29.2	Justice Department and I'm Mara Laias and National Political Correspondent. A lot of serious business
1:36.8	on Capitol Hill today. So let's all get our serious faces on as best as possible for the three of us
1:42.0	to do. William Barr certainly had a serious face on when he sat in front of the Senate Judiciary
1:47.0	Committee for hours talking about the Mueller report, his handling of the Mueller report. But
1:52.9	Kerry, the big news that day happened before the hearing even began and that was when the Department
1:58.0	of Justice released a letter that Robert Mueller himself had written to Barr after that initial
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