Welcome back to a special episode of Talking Feds, a prosecutor's round table that

brings together prominent former Department of Justice officials for a dynamic discussion

of the most important legal topics of the day.

And what a day, probably one of the five biggest days of the entire probe, the day when

Attorney General William Barr came to the Senate Judiciary Committee in a much anticipated

appearance to explain why he had decided contrary to special counsel Robert Mueller that

the President of the United States did not commit obstruction of justice.

Barr spent hours responding to aggressive questioning from Democratic senators about his decision-making

layered in with sweetheart Valentine's from the Republican members of the committee who

seemed to be focused on the inception of the probe and Hillary Clinton's emails and

the like.

I'm Harry Littman.

I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General and also an

Assistant United States Attorney or Line Prosecutor and a Washington Post columnist.

I'm joined today to discuss Barr's testimony and the implications of it by three fabulously

qualified feds.

First we're very pleased to have Robert Rabin back on Talking Feds.

Robert is founder and president of the Rabin Group, a progressive public policy firm,

a former principal deputy assistant attorney general and assistant attorney general under

Janet Reno and before that a senior health staffer for Representative Barney Frank.

Hi Robert, thanks very much for coming.

Thank you for having me, Harry.

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