Special Edition: The Mueller Report in Under an Hour
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The Justice Department released on Thursday morning a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. The Mueller team divided the report into two volumes: one on Russian interference and potential coordination with the Trump campaign, and the other exploring the president’s conduct in relation to the investigation. Each volume features its own executive summary, chronicling the investigation’s central findings and conclusions. On this special edition episode of the Lawfare Podcast Benjamin Wittes reads those executive summaries in full. It’s a Mueller Report instant audio-book.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast special ultra emergency edition April |
| 0:38.3 | 18th 2019. |
| 0:41.3 | The Mueller report is out. |
| 0:43.4 | We're going to have a lot of content about it on the site. |
| 0:46.7 | The full document is available on the site, of course. |
| 0:51.3 | And we will have more special edition podcasts to come in the days to follow. |
| 0:57.6 | But for now, we thought we would actually distill the document for you simply by reading |
| 1:04.5 | aloud Bob Mueller's executive summaries both to the Russia conspiracy section, part one, |
| 1:12.0 | volume one and to the obstruction section, which is volume two. |
| 1:18.5 | I will do that with notations orally of where there are redactions and roughly how long |
| 1:29.1 | the redactions are as well as the reasons for the redactions. |
| 1:33.5 | So here in however many minutes it takes me to read these pages is an audio book of the |
| 1:40.3 | summary of the Mueller report as articulated by the special counsel's office team. |
| 1:47.3 | Now further ado, executive summary to volume one, Russian social media campaign. |
| 1:54.3 | The internet research agency carried out the earliest Russian interference operations |
| 1:59.1 | identified by the investigation, a social media campaign designed to provoke and amplify |
| 2:05.3 | political and social discord in the United States. |
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