Mueller Would Like You to Read His Report, Please
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Special Counsel Robert Mueller breaks his silence to reiterate the conclusions of his investigation’s report -- and remind the American people to read it.
Guest: Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, host of the Amicus podcast.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Dahlia, before yesterday, when was the last time you heard Robert Mueller's voice? |
| 0:10.3 | I just remember, like, searching for audio of it, like, in the last few years, because I thought, like, what if he has, like, a squeaky little... |
| 0:19.0 | Jared Lousie voice? |
| 0:20.7 | Kushner voice and, you know, like, what if? |
| 0:23.2 | We didn't learn a lot of new things at Robert Mueller's press conference yesterday morning, |
| 0:27.3 | but we did learn what his voice sounds like. |
| 0:29.9 | Good morning, everyone, and thank you for being here. |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah, I expected James Earl Jones, basically. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah, yeah. And instead I got something else. |
| 0:39.4 | It felt like Robert Mueller was presenting |
| 0:41.4 | a book report. He definitely |
| 0:43.6 | was. I'll make a few |
| 0:45.4 | remarks about the results of |
| 0:47.2 | our work. But |
| 0:49.2 | beyond these few remarks, it is important |
| 0:51.4 | that the office's written work |
| 0:53.2 | speak for itself. |
| 0:56.1 | Dahlia Lithwick Slate's legal correspondent, she didn't have high expectations here. |
| 1:03.0 | What I initially thought it would be, as I'm rolling up, right, we've been waiting for him to, |
| 1:07.5 | you know, put the chairs on the desks and turn out the lights. So I thought that's what we were getting. |
| 1:12.3 | And in fact, no, we got a book report. |
| 1:14.4 | Like these are the, in case you fail to read, the 448 pages, these are the things that I think are the takeaways. |
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