Special Edition: The Mueller Report and the Barr Letter
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Special Counsel Robert Mueller sent his report to Bill Barr on Friday, and the attorney general sent a letter to Congress on Sunday detailing the principal conclusions of the Mueller report. Benjamin Wittes talks about it all with Lawfare Executive Editor Susan Hennessey, former senior Justice Department official Carrie Cordero and former assistant attorney general for national security David Kris.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition emergency edition |
| 1:22.4 | March 25th 2019. |
| 1:26.4 | You know why we're here today people started on Friday when Bob Mueller declared himself |
| 1:33.5 | finished and delivered his final report to attorney general Bill Barr on Sunday delivered |
| 1:42.8 | himself of a four-page summary of that report, a summary as to its quote, principle findings |
| 1:50.1 | unquote, excuse me, that summary raises a lot of questions. |
| 2:01.7 | It also answers a lot of questions or at least some and it has provoked cries of vindication |
| 2:09.9 | from the president and his defenders, a lot of head scratching. |
| 2:14.8 | So we are here to evaluate it all. |
| 2:17.9 | I'm here in the new jungle studio with Susan Hennessy and Carrie Cordero and on the |
| 2:25.0 | line from a remote location is David Chris. |
| 2:30.9 | Everybody, welcome back. |
| 2:34.9 | So Carrie, get us started. |
| 2:40.6 | How do you read what Bill Barr did and did not do? |
| 2:47.1 | So first I think it's useful to stay from the outset that we have not yet seen the |
| 2:54.0 | special counsel's report and what the attorney general released on Sunday afternoon was |
| 3:04.0 | a very brief summary of very high level conclusions and it was only on two parts of the investigation, |
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