Executive Summary to Volume II (Mueller Report)

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Dan Williams

Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 4 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers the "Executive Summary to Volume 2," pages 3 to 8, from Volume 2 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election." The executive summary provides an overview of the investigation's focus on a series of actions by the President related to the Russian-interference investigations, and an overview of the constitutional issues raised by the Special Counsel.

Executive Summary to Volume II (0:11)

Factual results of the obstruction investigation (0:26)
The Campaign's response to reports about Russian support for Trump (0:33)
1. Conduct involving FBI Director Comey and Michael Flynn (1:27)
2. The President's reaction to the continuing Russia investigation (2:57)
3. The President's termination of Comey (4:22)
4. The appointment of a Special Counsel and efforts to remove him (5:40)
5. Efforts to curtail the Special Counsel's investigation (7:06)
6. Efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence (8:29)
7. Further efforts to have the Attorney General take control of the investigation (9:30)
8. Efforts to have McGahn deny that the President had ordered him to have the Special Counsel removed (10:27)
9. Conduct towards Flynn, Manafort, [Redacted - Harm to Ongoing Matter] (11:22)
10. Conduct involving Michael Cohen (12:22)
11. Overarching factual issues (13:51)
Statutory and Constitutional defenses (16:24)
1. Statutory defenses (16:42)
2. Constitutional defenses (17:33)
Conclusion (20:09)

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0:00.0	Monday Sidekick, the AI agent that knows you and your business, thinks ahead and takes action. Ask it anything. Seriously, Monday Sidekick, AI you'll love to use. Start a free trial today on Monday.com.
0:19.9	Welcome to the Mueller Report Audio.
0:23.6	Executive summary to volume 2.
0:26.5	Our obstruction of justice inquiry focused on a series of actions by the president
0:30.5	that related to the Russian interference investigations,
0:33.7	including the president's conduct towards the law enforcement officials overseeing the investigations
0:38.0	and the witnesses to relevant events.
0:41.4	Factual results of the obstruction investigation.
0:45.4	The key issues and events we examined include the following.
0:49.3	The campaign's response to reports about Russian support for Trump.
0:53.0	During the 2016 presidential campaign,
0:55.7	questions arose about the Russian government's apparent support for candidate Trump. After WikiLeaks
1:00.5	released politically damaging Democratic Party emails that were reported to have been hacked by Russia,
1:06.0	Trump publicly expressed skepticism that Russia was responsible for the hacks, at the same time that he and other
1:11.5	campaign officials privately sought information, redacted, citing harm to ongoing matter,
1:16.8	about any further planned WikiLeaks releases. Trump also denied having any business in or
1:22.6	connections to Russia, even though as late as June 2016, the Trump organization had been pursuing a licensing
1:28.6	deal for a skyscraper to be built in Russia called Trump Tower Moscow. After the election,
1:34.4	the president expressed concerns to advisors that reports of Russia's election interference
1:38.5	might lead the public to question the legitimacy of his election. Conduct involving FBI Director Comey and Michael Flynn.
1:46.0	In mid-January 2017, incoming national security advisor Michael Flynn falsely denied to the vice president,
1:54.0	other administration officials, and FBI agents that he had talked to Russian ambassador,
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