Bill Barr’s attempt to undo the Mueller investigation

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Matt Zapotosky reports on the Justice Department’s recent moves to undercut the Mueller investigation. Aaron Gregg on the small-business loans that are going to large companies instead. And Monica Hesse on the power and popularity of Purell.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post-Kolley.
0:08.0	How are you?
0:09.0	He there, it's Simon and the Post.
0:11.0	Hey, it's Dave Farron from the Post-Kolley.
0:13.0	Have you got a second post?
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.0	It's Tuesday, May 12.
0:23.0	Today, an attempt to undo the Mueller investigation.
0:27.0	By small businesses are still struggling to get loans.
0:30.0	And the history of pure out.
0:36.0	This week, a couple thousand former prosecutors
0:40.0	and other justice department employees
0:43.0	penned an open letter calling on a Attorney General William Barr
0:48.0	to resign, and they also called on Congress
0:51.0	to look into a recent decision that he made.
0:54.0	That's a lot of people, a lot of former prosecutors.
0:57.0	It is.
0:59.0	What is a remarkable move by the Department of Justice?
1:03.0	They were sort of organized by this group called Protect Democracy,
1:06.0	which has organized similar letters in the past.
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