Special Edition: What to Make of the Mueller Report
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A redacted version of the 448-page Mueller report dropped yesterday, and there’s a lot to say about it. In this Special Edition of the Lawfare Podcast, Bob Bauer, Susan Hennessey, Mary McCord, Paul Rosenzweig, Charlie Savage and Benjamin Wittes discuss what the report says about obstruction and collusion, Mueller’s legal theories and what this all means for the president and the presidency.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition, |
| 0:35.0 | April 19th, 2019. |
| 0:38.0 | You can't guess why we're here. |
| 0:41.0 | It's just one of these mysteries. |
| 0:43.0 | No, I'm joking. |
| 0:45.0 | The Mueller report, as you know, dropped yesterday. |
| 0:48.0 | We have only had it for 24 hours. |
| 0:51.0 | We've all spent a lot of quality time with it. |
| 0:53.0 | We're going to spend a lot more quality time with it over the next days. |
| 0:58.0 | Days, weeks, and months, but we are ready to have an initial conversation about it. |
| 1:03.0 | In the Jungle Studio, I am here with Mary McCord of Georgetown Law |
| 1:09.0 | and former Lee acting head of the National Security Division at Justice Susan Hennessy, |
| 1:16.0 | who needs no introduction to LawFair listeners. |
| 1:19.0 | Joining us by phone, former White House counsel Bob Bauer, |
| 1:23.0 | and from Costa Rica, Paul Rosen's Waiig, and a special guest, |
| 1:30.0 | New York Times reporter Charlie Savage, who happens to be in Costa Rica |
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