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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 771 - Barr Brawl

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Reports break of Special Counsel Robert Mueller complaining to Attorney General Bill Barr, Venezuela’s chaos continues, and a Washington Post columnist calls all male candidates sexist. Date: 5-01-2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Special counsel Robert Mueller apparently complained to Attorney General William Barr and now Democrats are all mad about it.

0:05.6

Plus, chaos continues in Venezuela. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

0:15.3

Okay, so today's episode is titled Bar Brawl, and it is indeed a brawl over William Barr. See, it's punny. We'll get to all of that in just one second. First, after a childhood full of unsuccessful attempts to lie to your mother, do you really think she won't be able to tell the difference between a last-minute Mother's Day gift and something truly thoughtful? This Mother's Day, don't settle for anything less than the biggest and brightest bouquets from 1-800flowers.com. Right now, 1-800 flowers has a great deal for mom, like 24 assorted roses for 24 bucks. That's only a buck per rose. I love 1-800 flowers. Every time I need to send my wife flowers, whenever I go on the road, I send my wife flowers. Whenever she does something cool, like past the boards, I send her flowers from 1-800 flowers because their flowers are the best. She loves them every time with a bright and beautiful mix of orange, yellow, and pink blooms. These assorted roses are guaranteed to make her smile. Assorted roses are the perfect way to surprise all of the moms in your life, wife, sister, grandma. Roses from 1,800 flowers are picked at their peak from premier farms and shipped overnight to ensure freshness. 24 assorted roses for 24 bucks. It's an amazing offer, but you have to hurry because it expires on Friday. Trust 1,800 flowers to make mom feel loved this Mother's Day. Order today from 1,800flowers.com to order those 24 assorted roses for 24 bucks. Go to 1,800flowers.com slash Shapiro. That's 1,800flowers.com slash Shapiro.

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1:45.3

are very upset at Attorney General William Barr, deeply upset at Attorney General William Barr.

1:50.9

Why, you ask, why would they be upset at the Attorney General? After all, the Attorney General

1:54.7

simply provided a while back, a month ago, a month and a half ago, a four-page synopsis of the findings of the Mueller

2:01.9

report. And then we actually got to see the Mueller report, all 448 pages of it. And it turns

2:07.0

out that Attorney General Barr accurately summarized the conclusions of the Mueller report, which is

2:11.7

exactly what he said he was doing. You don't have to take anybody's word for. You can read

2:15.3

the Mueller report. You can also read Barr's letter.

2:19.6

So where's the controversy?

2:26.9

Ah, apparently Robert Mueller was very upset, very mad that William Barr's original synopsis of the findings did not include the mood of Robert Mueller's team in the summary.

2:33.5

I kid you not. He's whining Robert Mueller. Listen, I've been

2:36.8

very fair to Robert Mueller. I've been suggesting for years, literally years, that Robert Mueller

2:42.6

is an honest broker, that we ought to let him do his job. And when this is all done, he had done

2:47.3

his job. He had done a thorough investigation, not only of Russian collusion, of which there

2:52.3

was none, but also a thorough investigation of supposed obstruction of justice. And it turns out

2:58.0

there was nothing prosecutable there. And that's what Barr said. He said, listen, there's no

3:02.3

evidence of collusion. That is Mueller's finding. Also, he says in the letter itself, the William Barr letter itself suggests

3:09.2

that Robert Mueller did not make a finding on obstruction of justice. They declined to make a finding

3:13.3

on obstruction of justice. And that in the end, the Attorney General declined to prosecute because

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