Hey, everyone listening to the podcast. This is Ari, and I'm speaking to you on the week that Bob Mueller broke his silence and spoke for the first and only time a special counsel and then promptly resigned. So given that signal event in American history, we wanted to present our extra special this week with some stuff to put it all in context. We are joined by a DOJ official you've probably heard of. Neil Cottell. He literally wrote the rules that Governor Mueller. And he explains what he thought was significant about Mueller's remarks and how to really interpret them because Mueller doesn't speak like just anybody. I also give you later in this podcast my analysis of where Mueller broke with Barr during his remarks. And then we get a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist to weigh in on all of that. And then after that, if you stick around, it's something I call the Mueller sandwich. And I don't mean to make light of this, but I do think we have to understand what the Trump administration of Mr. Barr are doing and whether you want to let them get away with it, because it is designed chiefly not for the media, not for Congress, it is designed for public consumption. What is the Mueller

sandwich? Why does Bill Barr keep making it? If you stay to the end, you'll hear that as well.

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May 29th, 2019. This is the day that Bob Mueller broke his silence and resigned

his office as the most consequential special counsel in a generation. Mueller speaking publicly for

the first time today in more than two years after 37 indictments, guilty pleas from five

Trump a 148-page report, all against

the backdrop of intense obstruction of his probe and wider attacks on the Justice Department.

Now, some of that obstruction was charged by Mueller himself. Some was referred out to other prosecutors

in cases that we know are still open. And tonight, I can tell you,

some of the potential obstruction was not charged at all because, as Bob Mueller underscored in

breaking his silence today, the Justice Department rules prevented him from ever indicting

a sitting president. Mueller delivering that pivotal point that the legal wall barricating

Mueller from ever doing anything

with his evidence on President Trump other than writing it down for Congress, he delivered that

today in his signature, understated manner, noting in his first remarks to the country here

that he would basically not be able to give Donald Trump the good news that there was no crime.

In fact, that if he wanted to, he would have given that good news if the evidence supported it.

But, and this is important, and some of this may get lost, we're going to break it down for you

right now.

Bob Mueller, in his first ever remarks

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