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Reading into the Leak of the Mueller Questions

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Eric Columbus, a former lawyer at the Department of Justice, about the leak of the Mueller questions and the questions themselves. What can we read into them? What do we make of the leak? Don't forget to buy tickets to our live show in Brooklyn, NY! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

These questions are unconstitutional.

0:03.6

They are outrageous.

0:05.2

And they are just the latest chapter

0:08.5

in the most incredible,

0:11.0

anti-presidential effort in the history of our country.

0:16.4

He really has a deep animosity to the press.

0:20.4

Clearly, a leak by the Special Counsel's office,

0:23.9

you read these questions,

0:25.9

and you say to yourself,

0:27.5

there is simply no way the president can sit down with Robert Mueller.

0:33.1

These new, your time questions,

0:35.3

you can use it to burn in your fireplace tonight.

0:42.8

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernon.

0:45.5

So last night, the reporter Michael Schmidt had a story in the New York Times called,

0:49.2

Mueller has dozens of inquiries for Trump on broad quest in rational ties and obstruction.

0:54.7

It included what the Times assured us,

0:57.2

was the Special Counsel's proposed questions for Donald Trump in the Russia probe,

1:01.3

as filtered through the defense teams,

1:03.4

that's Trump's defense teams notes on those questions.

1:06.9

I'm proud to say that an alternate name for Trumpcast might just be.

1:11.5

Mueller has dozens of inquiries for Trump in broad quest on rational ties and obstruction.

1:16.0

The creator of this show, my esteemed colleague Jacob Weisberg,

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