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It's Complicated

End of the Mueller Investigation: What Will We Learn and What Will It Mean for Trump? (with Asha Rangappa)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Renato and Patti discuss recent reports that the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller will end soon and that Attorney General William Barr will release a summary of Mueller’s report but not the full report. They are joined by former FBI counterintelligence agent and CNN Legal Analyst Asha Rangappa.

Transcript

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0:00.0

M. S. W. Media.

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This week, we learned that the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be winding down soon,

0:16.1

and that the Justice Department is preparing to receive Mueller's report.

0:21.4

Attorney General Bill Barr will supposedly transmit a summary of the report, not the full report, to Congress.

0:29.8

What can we expect to see in the Mueller report?

0:32.8

What will the public be able to see?

0:35.0

Will they be able to see the final report?

0:37.5

And what will happen after that investigation ends? Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news. My name is Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal

1:06.6

prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a CNN legal analyst. And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez, a WG on radio host who will join us

1:16.8

regularly on this podcast. So Patty I have to say I you know it heard some reports and NBC News are reported for a while that the Mueller

1:26.1

investigation is going to be ending soon.

1:28.8

But I was very surprised to see that news that suddenly, you know it it appeared like it had been

1:33.7

confirmed first by CNN then by the Washington Post that the Justice

1:37.7

Department was getting ready to get that report I'm not fine it I'm not going to

1:40.8

believe it till I see it or I know we're not we're not going to see the whole thing but still I'm a little suspect

1:47.2

All right well we will see I will say it's one thing that I find funny and because I pay you know I try to read all the comments and stuff that our listeners leave and questions that they leave is there

1:59.4

A lot this week. Oh my God is insane and it's just funny to me that people are very

2:04.2

skeptical of like Mueller winding down but they're not skeptical about all sorts of

2:09.5

charges potentially being brought by Mueller in other words you, you know, we're skeptical on some

2:13.4

things we don't see but not others. Well, because he hasn't said he's winding down

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and nor would we expect him to. He would not. I mean, so Mueller's not going to

2:21.8

say anything, you know, one thing that I think people have always had a miss characterization of Mueller is they think that he's this guy who's going to, you know, come down, you know, he's like a John Wayne or something.

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