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The Lawfare Podcast

Lawfare Archive: What to Make of the Mueller Report

The Lawfare Podcast

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4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

From April 19, 2019: A redacted version of the 448-page Mueller report dropped yesterday, and there’s a lot to say about it. In this Special Edition of the Lawfare Podcast, Bob Bauer, Susan Hennessey, Mary McCord, Paul Rosenzweig, Charlie Savage and Benjamin Wittes discuss what the report says about obstruction and collusion, Mueller’s legal theories and what this all means for the president and the presidency.

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Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings,

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I'm Geo Kokatakis with an episode from the LawFair Archive for June 19, 2023.

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This week at LawFair, our coverage focused on the historic federal indictment of former president Donald Trump

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in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation.

0:53.0

It is the culmination of a long history of investigations of the former president,

0:57.0

the first of which was the Mueller investigation back in 2017.

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For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from April 2019

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in which Benjamin Wittis sat down with Bob Bauer, Susan Hennessy, Mary McCord, Paul Rosenzweig,

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and Charlie Savage to discuss the Mueller report, what it says about obstruction and collusion,

1:16.0

Mueller's legal theories, and what this all means for the president and the presidency.

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You can read LawFair's coverage of Trump's most recent federal indictment at lawfairblog.com.

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I'm Benjamin Wittis, and this is the LawFair Podcast, special edition, April 19, 2019.

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You can't guess why we're here. It's just one of these mysteries.

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No, I'm joking. The Mueller report, as you know, dropped yesterday.

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We have only had it for 24 hours. We've all spent a lot of quality time with it.

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We're going to spend a lot more quality time with it over the next days, weeks, and months,

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but we are ready to have an initial conversation about it.

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