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The Daily

New Insights Into the Mueller Report

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The special counsel’s team sent its report to the attorney general, William P. Barr, who sent a summary of that report to Congress. But some members of the special counsel’s team have told associates that their findings are more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated. Guests: Nicholas Fandos, who covers Congress for The New York Times, and Michael S. Schmidt, who has been covering the special counsel investigation. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.

0:02.0

This is the Daily One.

0:04.0

Today, the Mueller team sent its report to the Attorney General, William Barrett.

0:14.8

The Attorney General sent a summary of that report to Congress.

0:18.6

Now, new reporting shows members of Mueller's team feel that Barrett's summary did not

0:25.3

reflect the report they wrote.

0:27.6

It's Thursday, April 4.

0:39.1

So take us back to the beginning of last week.

0:41.6

What do we know at that point?

0:43.6

So we knew that Bill Barr, taking Bob Mueller's three to 400-page report, had gone through

0:50.5

it extensively and boiled down what he called the principal conclusions to just four pages.

0:57.2

Dick Fando's covers Congress.

0:59.3

Mike Schmidt covers National Security.

1:01.4

We were in this unusual situation where the special counsel, Robert Mueller, had sent his

1:07.8

report to the Attorney General, said, I found no evidence that the campaign conspired with

1:13.1

Russia to impact the election, but he declined to make a decision on obstruction.

1:19.0

And what he said was, Mueller didn't reach what Barr called a traditional prosecutorial

1:24.3

decision.

1:25.3

In other words, Mueller presented evidence for the fact that the president may have obstructed

1:31.5

justice, but didn't go as far as to conclude that he had.

1:35.4

He essentially punted to the Attorney General's office.

1:39.5

And in this case, by Mueller not reaching a determination, he leaves the door open for

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