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Skullduggery

Mueller Probe-lems

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Weissmann, former Veteran DOJ Prosecutor, Chief of the Fraud Section, Former General Council of the F.B.I. and former top Deputy in Robert Mueller's Investigation joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Weissmann discuss his new book, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation. It's our first look inside the Russia probe that is still and ankle weight to President Trump to this day. In the controversial book, Weissmann describes where Mueller went wrong and where things could have gone further, all while taking some shots at former colleagues.

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0:00.0

We could have done more.

0:04.3

So writes Andrew Weissman in his new book Where Law Ends, the first insider account of

0:09.7

Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and its

0:15.2

links to the Trump campaign.

0:17.2

Weissman was one of Mueller's top deputies, heading up the investigation and prosecution

0:22.4

of former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

0:25.6

But Weissman argues that the Mueller probe didn't go far enough, especially when it came

0:30.4

to investigating President Trump's own culpability.

0:34.5

But what exactly does he think the special counsel should have done?

0:38.3

And how much did Weissman himself speak up about all this at the time?

0:42.7

As President Trump remains fixated on the Russia probe, demanding that his investigators

0:47.5

themselves be charged with crimes, we'll talk to Weissman about where he thinks the

0:52.1

Mueller probe pulled its punches.

0:54.4

And what it could have done differently on this episode of Skull Duggery.

0:59.1

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well,

1:08.2

I'm not a crop.

1:09.2

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

1:12.5

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

1:17.3

tell me it is not.

1:18.5

I did not have sexual relations for that woman.

1:22.6

There will be no lies.

1:25.4

We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

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