Hatchet Job

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Elie Honig breaks down the latest development in the long saga of Bill Barr: a federal judge reprimanding the former attorney general for misleading Congress about whether Donald Trump should have been charged with obstructing the Russia investigation. Join Elie every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Third Degree for a discussion of the urgent legal news making the headlines. Transcript, references and supplemental materials are available on the CAFE website: https://cafe.com/third-degree-podcast/hatchet-job/ Third Degree is brought to you by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio and Music Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producer: Sam Ozer-Staton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is third degree.
0:34.7	I'm Ellie Honig.
0:49.6	Thank you. This is third degree. I'm Ellie Honig. How long do you think it would take you to read a 448 page document?
0:55.7	Single space, small font, nonfiction, dense, hundreds of footnotes, thousands of names,
1:01.9	dates, places, and you can't just skim it.
1:04.3	You have to internalize it.
1:05.6	You have to get a real fluency with the facts, with the details.
1:09.5	Assume you knew time was of the essence. Assume you knew a lot of
1:12.9	people were waiting on you to read it. So how long? A week, if you worked around the clock,
1:18.3	maybe two more realistically. How much time if you knew you had to do complex legal research
1:23.8	and analysis based on those 448 pages and then make a decision of national
1:29.2	consequence based on your conclusion. You have to tack on some more time for that.
1:34.4	So we're now up to what, three, four weeks, maybe again, if you pushed yourself to the limit?
1:40.6	Well, do you remember how long it took Bill Barr to read, I'm using scare quotes here, absorb,
1:47.8	and draw complex legal conclusions from the report of Robert Mueller? Do you remember? It was two
1:54.8	days, 48 hours, not even. Bill Barr got the Mueller report on a Friday. It was March 22nd, 2019, and he was done.
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