Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined as always by Steve Hayes, David French and Jonah Goldberg.

Today we are talking about the Department of Justice announcements coming out from Bill Barr yesterday.

No election fraud and a special counsel to boot. And then we'll talk about the cases, the election litigation still being pursued by Donald Trump in his campaign.

A little on coronavirus updates the vaccine as it rolls out and who's getting it first. And finally, an assassination in Iran. What it means for foreign policy heading into the Biden administration.

Let's dive in. So first up yesterday breaking news out of the Department of Justice the associated press reported that Bill Barr in an interview said that to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected it.

A different outcome in the election. And then just a few moments later, we bill bar announced that in October before the election, he had appointed the US attorney in Connecticut Durham as special counsel to look into the Russia investigation instead of just sort of an internal DOJ investigation.

And then this morning we have Catherine Haraj of CBS reporting from a DOJ spokesperson, quote, some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the department has concluded its investigation of election fraud and announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election.

That is not with the associated press reported nor with the attorney general stated the department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific incredible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.

I'm sure we're going to spend a little bit of legal time on this tomorrow on advisory opinions, but politically what say you?

Well, okay, can I violate the question and just just dip my toes.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, well, let me back up a little bit and say, look in principle, I want the investigation of the of the beginnings of the Russian investigation to be completed.

This is this is something that I think it's in the public interest to have a complete picture, a complete picture of everything that occurred that we can know from start to finish of this entire sorry affair.

So I've said this for years now, I want to investigate the investigation. I wanted the investigation to be completed.

I want to know it all, but we got a little problem here, Sarah.

We got a little problem and I'm going to I'm going to read from the code of federal regulations, which is always a crowd pleaser.

And and especially 28 CFR section 600.3 a which is, yeah, that's a great.

Everyone knows that one.

That's a great one.

I mean, literally nobody's listening anymore.

That was it.

No, no, no, no.

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