Mueller 101

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🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Today, special counsel Robert Mueller dropped over 20 criminal counts against former Trump campaign official Rick Gates, just days after Gates agreed to a plea deal. Mueller's Russia probe has a lot of people and moving parts, so how do we keep them all straight? Vox’s Zack Beauchamp tells Sean Rameswaram not to focus on all the names and places or it might start to sound like “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” We update the Billy Joel song to explain Mueller’s investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.3	Okay, Zach Beacham International reporter at Vox,
0:31.2	host of the worldly podcast. Nice to meet you.
0:34.1	Nice to meet you very much, sir.
0:36.0	Our show's existed for about a week and we haven't once talked about the Mueller investigations.
0:41.5	Is that a problem?
0:42.5	Well, yeah, it's the biggest news in the country right now.
0:45.6	Great, great. Okay, let's do it.
0:46.9	But I'm wondering the best way to approach it.
0:50.2	Is it maybe by talking about pop a dopalus and manifold and all of these gates, guys?
0:56.8	No, no, no. So if you just keep running through the people like that,
0:59.5	it's going to sound a little bit like we didn't start the fire.
1:03.5	That doesn't sound so bad.
1:47.0	Okay, so that was fun.
1:51.7	But how should we do it?
2:17.0	All right, there are three prongs to this.
2:19.5	First is the actual collusion.
2:21.3	Okay.
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