Collusion elusion: the Mueller report
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🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.5 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.8 | Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel Investigating President Donald Trump's campaign, has handed over his conclusions. |
| 0:24.4 | We look into how the report changes the landscape for the president and what will happen next. |
| 0:31.2 | In 2015, Greece's hard-left Sariza party stormed to power, raging against the austerity that had gripped Europe for years. |
| 0:40.4 | But economic realities set in, and Sariza moved toward the center. |
| 0:45.3 | Now there's talk of an early election, and the party is struggling to hang on. |
| 1:05.1 | Okay. It was an investigation that clouded all but the first few months of Donald Trump's presidency. |
| 1:13.6 | But special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded that neither Mr. Trump nor his campaign team conspired with Russia during his 2016 campaign. There was no collusion with Russia. There was no obstruction and none whatsoever. |
| 1:21.6 | And it was a complete and total exoneration. |
| 1:37.4 | The president has not been exonerated by the special counsel, yet the Attorney General has decided not to go further or apparently to share those findings with the public. |
| 1:43.4 | Mr. Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the election began nearly two years ago. |
| 1:46.2 | It involved more than 2,800 subpoenas, nearly 500 search warrants, and about 500 witnesses. On Friday, he passed his finished |
| 1:53.3 | report to William Barr, the Attorney General, who yesterday made his four-page summary of the report |
| 1:58.7 | public. And while Mr. Trump has been cleared of colluding |
| 2:02.2 | with Russia, there remain questions over whether he or anyone else in the White House obstructed |
| 2:07.6 | justice during the investigation. Mr. Barr wrote, while this report does not conclude that the |
| 2:12.3 | president committed to crime, it also does not exonerate him. Although the submission of the report did not result in any |
| 2:18.9 | further charges, there have already been 37 indictments or guilty pleas and nearly 200 criminal |
| 2:25.2 | charges over the course of the investigation. Some of Donald Trump's closest former advisors have been |
| 2:30.9 | sent to prison. John Prudeau is our US editor. Hi there, John. |
| 2:35.7 | Hi, Jason. We've been waiting, well, the world has been waiting for a better part of two |
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