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Hello and welcome to another episode of National Security magazine from the DSR network.

I'm David Rothkoff, your host. I'm here in New York City.

And I am joined today by Natasha Bertrand, who is a staff writer at the Atlantic and a commentator and analyst for NBC, where she covers national security and the intelligence community.

Hi Natasha, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having you David.

So obviously the story on everyone's mind this week is the release of the bar letter summarizing the Mueller report.

We now know that Barr will not be providing us with his version of the Mueller report for several weeks.

But that has not stopped people from offering a whole range of opinions from the

president saying that he has been completely exonerated and that there was no collusion

to a host of other people questioning bars, motives and methods.

And I'm just wondering, you know, you've been immersed in this story from the beginning

and I'm wondering what your reaction to the reactions is right now.

Yeah so I think that it's really too soon to conclude anything because as you said, we only got the four four page summary of a report that may be

hundred of pages long we just don't even know how long it actually is which in

and of itself is it's kind of perplexing But you know I think that the rush to conclude that the

Mueller investigation found no evidence of any kind of collusion or coordination between the campaign

and Russia is completely misguided because you know as anyone with even a cursory understanding of you know our legal system

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