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Stay Tuned with Preet

Campaign "Spying" & the Ways and Means of Power (with Bob Caro)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, "Campaign 'Spying' & the Ways and Means of Power," host Preet Bharara answers your questions about: -- Barr’s testimony that the Justice Department would review “both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign,” including potential “spying.” -- Barr’s decision not to use summaries prepared by the Special Counsel’s Office, and the revelation that Mueller was offered but declined to review Barr’s summary. -- Barr's decision not to seek a court order to make grand jury evidence public. -- The President’s purge of top leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, and the concerns over a cabinet filled with “Acting” officials. -- And, Preet’s road to becoming a podcaster and an author. Bob Caro, the two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning author whose biographies of Robert Moses and LBJ double as studies of political power, joins Preet to kick off a special Stay Tuned series of conversations with writers about their craft, their lives, and life lessons. Caro’s new book is called Working. Bonus clips from the interview are available for members of the CAFE Insider community Sign up to receive free references and supplemental materials for Stay Tuned episodes, a weekly newsletter, and updates from Preet. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 699-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. WEBBY AWARDS Stay Tuned with Preet has been nominated for a Webby Award for the best individual episode of a podcast. The selection is Preet’s interview with Bill Browder, a financier who became the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act and is now often described as President Putin’s #1 foe. If you haven’t already, check out the episode, and cast your vote for Stay Tuned at webbyawards.com, in the podcast category. We appreciate your support! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.1

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0:26.9

Slack.com slash DHQ. Hey stay tuned listeners.

0:56.9

I was pleased to learn last week that stay tuned has been nominated for a Webby Award

1:01.7

for the best individual episode of a podcast. The selection is for an interview I did last

1:06.5

year with Bill Browder. As many of you know, Browder became the driving force behind the

1:11.9

Magnitsky Act and is often described as Putin's number one foe. So if you haven't already,

1:17.9

check out the episode and cast your vote at WebbyAwards.com. You can also find the link to vote

1:23.9

in the show notes to this episode.

1:27.9

From Cafe, welcome to stay tuned. I'm Pete Burara.

1:33.8

I never had the faintest interest in writing a book just to tell the life of a great man.

1:40.5

From the minute I started thinking about writing books, I thought of using the loyves

1:46.9

of certain men as a way to examine political power because it's political power that

1:53.3

I was interested in.

1:58.3

That's Robert Carroll, legendary author and personal writing hero of mine. Not to mention,

2:05.7

two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He's the author of the Power Broker about Robert Moses and

2:10.8

several volumes in the years of Lyndon Johnson and also the new book, Working. I speak with

2:16.9

him about the mechanics of power and how he uncovers the details and stories that bring

2:20.7

them to light. That's coming up. Stay tuned.

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