Bonus: "An Odd Alice in Wonderland Kind of Switch"
The Investigation
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3.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the bonus episode of The Investigation. I'm Chris Vlasto, senior executive producer |
| 0:10.4 | here at ABC News. It's hard to believe, but it's been 22 months of the Mueller investigation. |
| 0:15.4 | He's delivered 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, and over 500 witnesses interviewed. |
| 0:20.8 | And now it's officially over. |
| 0:22.7 | You know, we had inklings on Friday that it was kind of heading in this direction when they |
| 0:27.2 | announced that there were no further indictments. But I have to admit that even up until |
| 0:32.5 | five minutes before the letter came out, I was surprised on the obstruction that, you know, I know |
| 0:40.2 | there's still open questions, but that really, I didn't know what the answer was. And as I said |
| 0:45.2 | before, Bob Mueller deserves a lot of credit because he kept a leakproof investigation for all |
| 0:51.5 | these two years. So I think anyone in Washington who said they knew what was |
| 0:55.5 | going on, didn't know what was going on in all about. Just look to your point about obstruction, |
| 0:58.5 | Chris. And this is what the letter says. It says in cataloging the president's actions, many of |
| 1:02.7 | which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that in our judgment constitute |
| 1:08.7 | obstructive conduct and had a nexus to a pending or contemplated |
| 1:13.5 | proceeding and were done with corrupt intent. I mean, it really is amazing for how many times, |
| 1:20.1 | you know, we were looking into this. We know the president was asked questions about obstruction |
| 1:24.3 | of justice when he received that long list from special counsel Robert Mueller's team. But to think that they didn't find anything that rose to the level of charging |
| 1:32.0 | when a crime, that's where it actually is quite interesting for the president. |
| 1:36.3 | Well, I think about that, though, is that the thing about Donald Trump is that he obstructed |
| 1:40.2 | in plain sight. Right. You know, and that was always the problem. He was obstructing right |
| 1:44.1 | before our eyes. Well, and I was always the problem. He was obstructing right before our |
| 1:44.6 | eyes. Well, and I think that the one caution on that, on that reading of this letter is that |
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