BONUS: The "No Conspiracy, No Collusion, Full Exoneration" Edition
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, GabFest listeners. Special producer Melissa Kaplan here. This is just a preview of today's |
| 0:05.1 | bonus episode of the Political GabFest. The full episode is available to Slate Plus members. |
| 0:10.7 | Learn more at slate.com slash gabfest plus. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello and welcome to a special slate political gab fest. |
| 0:26.4 | The No Conspiracy, No Collusion, Full Exoneration Edition. |
| 0:30.8 | It is Sunday, March 24th. |
| 0:34.8 | It's Sunday afternoon. |
| 0:36.8 | And we're here because the Mueller report, or rather the bar gloss on the Mueller report, has just been released to the public and sent to Congress. So I'm joined, I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura, and I'm joined, of course, by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:56.4 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:57.9 | Hello. |
| 0:58.9 | And by John Dickerson of CBS this morning. Hey, John. |
| 1:03.4 | Hi. |
| 1:04.5 | So, Emily, it is just minutes or maybe an hour or so after this Barr letter to the public and to Congress |
| 1:14.7 | has been released. What are quickly is in it? What are the main headlines of what Barr has said |
| 1:20.4 | about the Mueller report? The main headlines are that according to Barr, Mueller concluded that the Trump campaign |
| 1:30.7 | did not assist the Russians in trying to interfere with our election. |
| 1:35.5 | That's headline one. |
| 1:36.8 | And headline two is that Mueller wrote a lot about obstruction of justice, and we don't |
| 1:43.7 | know the details of what he wrote. He did not reach a lot about obstruction of justice, and we don't know the details of what he wrote. He did not |
| 1:46.0 | reach a conclusion about whether Trump should be indicted for obstruction of justice. He left that |
| 1:52.4 | decision to Attorney General Barr, and Barr decided not to bring such a charge. |
| 2:00.9 | And John, the president, of course, has already tweeted. |
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