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The Beat with Ari Melber

Bill Barr’s Russia claims fizzle with new report

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosts “The Beat” on Monday, May 15, and reports on the Durham report and the decline in traditional office life. Plus, actor Rainn Wilson from “The Office” joins. Brittany Packnett Cunningham, James Carville and David Corn also join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat everyone.

0:01.4

I'm Ari Melber and of all the important items that begin this week and we will get to

0:04.9

them.

0:05.9

We have one.

0:06.9

Our office is buzzing about that we are lighting up about if you will if you'll take

0:11.6

the visual on Tondra.

0:13.2

The man you see there, Rain Wilson from NBC's Hit the Office will join us live on the

0:17.8

beat by the end of this hour.

0:20.9

That is some office news.

0:22.2

So believe me, we think it's worth sticking around for that.

0:24.9

The top story of the news though is a loss for a Trump era prosecutor who has been

0:29.8

trying and failing to find any deep state conspiracy against Donald Trump after getting

0:35.4

his special political assignment from Trump Attorney General Bill Barr.

0:40.2

I'm talking about a special counsel you may have remember.

0:42.9

He was tapped originally in that Trump bar DOJ so before the current Biden administration.

0:49.0

And the project was to investigate the investigators, a theme you may have heard to sort of rehash

0:53.6

and relitigate the origins of the Russia probe and related accusations of bias.

0:59.3

Okay, so he was picked by bar to do that.

1:01.4

We're years away from that.

1:02.6

And now today I could tell you we have an update because this prosecutor picked by bar named

1:09.6

Durham stayed on the job.

1:11.5

The new attorney general did not alter or remove him.

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