Bonus Edition: Michael Horowitz vs. the Committee with No Bull
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🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss his recently released report on the Russia investigation. The hearing was contentious and occasionally devolved into speechify-ing. But we cut out all the unnecessary repetition and theatrics to leave you with just the questions and answers that you need to hear.
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| 0:27.2 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Alana Kagan and this is the LawFair podcast December 11th 2019. |
| 0:36.9 | Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz appeared before the Senate Judiciary |
| 0:40.9 | Committee to discuss his recently released report on the Russia investigation. |
| 0:45.6 | The hearing was contentious and occasionally devolved into specifying, but we cut out |
| 0:49.7 | all the unnecessary repetition and theatrics to leave you with just the questions and answers |
| 0:54.2 | that you need to hear. |
| 0:56.2 | As the LawFair podcast bonus edition, Michael Horowitz versus the committee with no bull. |
| 1:02.7 | Chairman Graham's Senator Feinstein members of the committee, thank you for inviting me |
| 1:07.2 | to testify today. |
| 1:09.0 | The report that my office released this week is the product of a comprehensive and exhaustive |
| 1:14.5 | review conducted over the past 19 months by an OIG team that examined more than 1 million |
| 1:21.0 | documents in the department and the FBI's possession, including documents other US and |
| 1:27.3 | foreign government agencies had provided to the FBI. |
| 1:31.6 | Our team conducted over 170 interviews involving more than 100 witnesses and we documented |
| 1:39.1 | all of our findings in the 434 page report that we issued this week. |
| 1:46.8 | I would encourage everybody to read the report, although I understand 400-plus page reports |
| 1:52.8 | can be hard to get through. |
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