Hi, everyone listening to the podcast. This is Ari, and this is a very special edition of the podcast.

We begin with my analysis the night that Bill Barr released his letter about what Mueller had found,

which of course kicked off a lot of controversy. We talk about why it's important to follow the evidence,

not assumptions, and then turn to the view of someone who has sat in the same

chair as Barr, former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder. This is actually his first ever interview

on the beat, and I think he'll be interested in a lot of what he had to say. Then for a different

perspective, I talked to the lawyer for this sitting president of the United States, Jay Sekalo,

who came on the beat on the first

news night since the Mueller report came out as a finished conclusion that we're waiting to see.

But the first news night since the probe ended, and we got into it, and I think it's a worthwhile

discussion, even for those of you who may think Jay Sekalo has some explaining to do.

And then we turn to my report on why it's very important, especially at times like these,

not to rush to assumptions and to follow the evidence.

All of that in what I consider, what we think, is a pretty special edition of the podcast for The Beat with Ari Melburgh.

Now I turn tonight to my special report for you on what this Mueller probe in total

found, what it accomplished, what it means, and what may be left to be done. Let's start with

something that most people do realize by now. Bob Mueller captivated really a lot of the country

with the way he conducted this probe. In a culture full of shouting and self-promotion and

polarization in a political era defined by trolling and retweeting and bad faith arguments, Bob

Mueller is an old school prosecutor who never held a press conference, never dropped a tweet, and never leaked,

as best we know. This was more than something about style. This was government professionalism.

This was prosecutorial rigor. This was an approach to public service that, yes, operated as an inherent,

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