Barr answers for his handling of the Mueller report
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🗓️ 1 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, |
| 0:05.6 | this is Cleveland, some of the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.0 | It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post. |
| 0:13.8 | This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers. |
| 0:19.0 | It's Wednesday May 1st. |
| 0:22.8 | Today, questions about how the Attorney General |
| 0:25.6 | characterized the Mueller Report, |
| 0:28.0 | proposed changes for asylum seekers, |
| 0:30.8 | and a ruling on gender and sports. |
| 0:35.8 | The solemnly, you do solemnly swear the testimony |
| 0:38.3 | about the justice committee is the truth, |
| 0:40.0 | the whole truth and nothing but the truth. |
| 0:42.0 | Except you got it. |
| 0:42.8 | Yes. |
| 0:44.1 | Thank you, Mr. Chairman and the ranking member, |
| 0:47.5 | finestein members of the committee. |
| 0:51.2 | On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr |
| 0:53.6 | appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, |
| 0:56.4 | and he defended his rollout of special counsel Robert Mueller's report. |
| 1:00.1 | That's what we were trying to do, |
| 1:01.5 | notify the people as to the bottom line conclusion. |
| 1:04.4 | We were not trying to summarize the 410 page report. |
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