EP 027 | AG Barr Just Got Chatty & Gave an Info Dump on Criminal Probe of FBI Conduct
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
After the release of Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the FBI's conduct in investigating officials connected to the Trump campaign, Attorney General William Barr went on the record with new information about his own ongoing probe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:05.0 | Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Something unexpected happened this. of the Attorney General William Barr became quite chatty and provided an information dump that |
| 0:26.0 | had a lot of news in it. |
| 0:28.3 | That's what I want to talk about today. After the release of Harowitz's report and a lot of news coverage about it, in fact a lot of news coverage saying things like it exonerated former FBI director James |
| 0:45.2 | Komi. |
| 0:46.5 | It disproved all the theories that Donald Trump had about him being spied on or his campaign |
| 0:51.2 | being spied on. There was no political bias on the part of |
| 0:55.4 | FBI agents or officials involved in the surreptitious monitoring of people |
| 1:00.1 | connected to President Trump or then candidate Trump? |
| 1:04.2 | Well, after all that, Attorney General William Barr |
| 1:08.0 | came out in public and gave a couple of interviews. |
| 1:11.6 | He gave one interview to NBC News as Pete Williams and another at the Wall Street |
| 1:17.0 | General's CEO Council, an event that was recorded on C-SPAN. I watched both of them and the content was almost identical in terms of the |
| 1:26.2 | information that Barr gave and it was clear that he wanted to say certain things and make certain |
| 1:32.0 | points. |
| 1:33.7 | He was talking about the U.S. intelligence community's actions against the Trump campaign |
| 1:38.2 | in 2016 and 2017. |
| 1:41.5 | As you may know, a criminal investigation is underway and being led by U.S. Attorney |
| 1:45.8 | John Durham under Barr's supervision. |
| 1:48.8 | This is entirely separate from the Inspector General's investigation. |
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