Politics After Mueller

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🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Last week, the special counsel submitted his report to Attorney General Bill Barr. And this week, Barr shared his brief summary of the big conclusions: there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. As for obstruction of justice, Mueller left that question unresolved. In his letter, Barr said the DOJ had decided the evidence presented didn’t merit criminal charges. More could change with the release of the actual report. In fact, six House committee chairs have demanded it by next Tuesday. But the Mueller chapter of this presidency is now essentially closed. What does the post-Mueller landscape look like? Does the end of his investigation — with no bombshells detonated as yet — hurt Democrats in 2020? Or might it actually help them? Staff writers McKay Coppins and Isaac Dovere join Alex Wagner to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's
0:04.3	final act is special counsel formally ending his investigation
0:08.1	just two months shy of two years after he was appointed.
0:11.5	Two years, 19 lawyers, two years
0:13.0	19 lawyers, 40 FBI agents,
0:16.5	2800 subpoenas, 500 people interviewed.
0:20.4	So it's a four page letter from the attorney general to the chairman and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees?
0:28.0	Well, certainly the most important thing is the total vindication of the president and his staff on the issue of collusion.
0:35.0	I mean there's just no other way around that.
0:38.0	While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime,
0:41.0	it also does not exonerate him.
0:46.0	Robert Mueller's job is done.
0:48.3	Last week, the Special Counsel submitted his
0:55.0	brief, brief summary of the big conclusions.
0:58.0	There was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
1:01.0	And as for obstruction of justice, Mueller left that question unresolved.
1:06.0	In his letter, Barr said the DOJ has decided the evidence presented does not merit criminal charges.
1:12.0	More could change with the release of the... does not merit criminal charges.
1:13.0	More could change with the release of the actual report.
1:16.0	In fact, six House Committee chairs have demanded it by next Tuesday.
1:21.0	But the Mueller chapter of this presidency, at least in terms of an investigation, is now essentially closed.
1:28.0	So what does the post-Muller landscape look like?
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