BONUS: The "No Conspiracy, No Collusion, Full Exoneration" Edition

Political Gabfest

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News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and the summary Attorney General William Barr submitted to Congress. The full version of this special bonus episode is only available to Slate Plus members. To hear it, sign up for a free trial at slate.com/gabfestplus. Topic ideas for next week? You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest (#heygabfest). (Tweets may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Become a fan of the Political Gabfest on Facebook. We post to the Facebook page throughout the week, so keep the conversation going by joining us there. Or follow us @SlateGabfest. The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank with production assistance from Melissa Kaplan. Links compiled by Bridget Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, GapFest listeners, special producer Melissa Kaplan here. This is just a preview of today's bonus
0:05.3	episode of the Political Gap Fest. The full episode is available to sleep plus members. Learn more
0:11.0	at slate.com slash GapFest Plus.
0:21.7	Hello and welcome to a special slate political Gap Fest. The no conspiracy, no collusion,
0:28.4	full exoneration edition. It is Sunday, March 24th. It's Sunday afternoon and we're here because the
0:39.7	Mueller report or rather the bar gloss on the Mueller report has just been released to the public
0:45.8	and sent to congress. So I'm joined, I'm David Plott's Valesubscura and I'm joined, of course,
0:50.8	by Emily Bazelon of The New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily.
0:57.9	Hello. And by John Dickerson of CBS this morning, hey, John.
1:03.5	Hi. So Emily, it is just minutes or maybe an hour or so after this bar letter to the public and
1:14.2	to congress has been released. What are quickly is in it? What are the main headlines of what bar has
1:20.1	said about the Mueller report? The main headlines are that according to bar Mueller concluded that
1:29.7	the Trump campaign did not assist the Russians in trying to interfere with our election. That's
1:35.9	headline one and headline two is that Mueller wrote a lot about obstruction of justice and we don't
1:43.6	know the details of what he wrote. He did not reach a conclusion about whether Trump should be
1:49.5	indicted for obstruction of justice. He left that decision to attorney general bar and bar decided
1:57.1	not to bring such a charge. And John, the president, of course, has already tweeted. He's called this a,
2:05.4	I don't have the words in front of me, but it's a full exoneration, a complete exoneration,
2:09.9	something of that sort. Is this a full and complete exoneration for the president? Has it, has it
2:16.9	been revealed that this is a witch hunt and that there was no collusion? Let's see. Well, no, no,
2:25.9	and yes, okay. So no, it's not a witch hunt. If you look at the number of people that were
2:30.9	interviewed and the thoroughness of the Mueller investigation, the president called it a hoax,
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