BONUS: The Mueller probe and the blue wave

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this special podcast extra, listen to some of the biggest Mueller probe stories over the past week. With Democrats taking control of the House after the midterm blue wave, Ari Melber examines how the shift in power could have wider implications for President Trump, his associates and the probe.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone who listens to our podcast. This is Ari Melburgh with some info on the podcast extra you're about to hear.
0:05.7	A key witness and Roger Stone Associate says he expects to be indicted, a lawsuit-threatening Mueller's new boss, Trump loyalist Matt Whitaker,
0:12.5	and Donald Trump announcing that he's actually finished writing his answers to all the key collusion questions for Bob Mueller,
0:19.0	plus a slip-up revealing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
0:21.6	might actually be charged by the Trump Justice Department.
0:24.6	What you're about to hear touches on all of that, some of the most important stories this week
0:28.5	in the wider context of shifting power in Congress.
0:35.9	We do have a responsibility, I believe, to investigate the process by which the FBI was stifled in its investigation by the White House.
0:46.0	We will make sure that Matt Whitaker immediately, one of our first orders of business, will be to invite him, if necessary, to subpoena him to appear before the committee.
0:59.1	It's a direct result of the blue wave. You heard it there. That's a Democrat, Jerry Nadler,
1:03.1	poised to take over the House Judiciary Committee and its impressive subpoena power. And he says
1:07.1	he will grill acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker about his new role overseeing
1:11.3	this Russia probe.
1:12.2	It's part of a new reality confronting the Trump administration.
1:15.4	Democrats winning these projected 35 House seats.
1:18.5	As we've reported on this show from the start, that's their biggest midterm hall in
1:21.4	four decades in planning investigations into Trump's handling of the Mueller probe and much
1:26.2	more.
1:28.3	The ouster of Jeff Sessions.
1:30.3	Certainly, the North Korea summit.
1:33.3	Certainly all issues involving North Korea.
1:35.3	Commitments to Saudi Arabia.
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