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It's Complicated

The Barr Letter: What Questions Does it Raise? (with Barb McQuade)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Renato and Patti discuss the implications and aftermath of the letter of Attorney General Bill Barr purportedly describing the contents of the Mueller report, as well as Barr's own conclusion that Trump did not obstruct justice. They are joined by MSNBC Legal Analyst Barb McQuade, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

M.S. W. Media.

0:08.4

Two days ago, Attorney General Bill Barr

0:12.0

released a four-page letter summarizing what he claimed

0:16.2

were the principal conclusions of the Mueller report.

0:19.9

Among other things, Barr said that Mueller had concluded there was not sufficient evidence to prove

0:26.2

that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government.

0:30.8

Barr also said that Mueller did not conclude one way or another whether Trump obstructed justice.

0:37.0

But Barr himself concluded that Trump had not done so.

0:42.0

Mueller's report is still not that Trump had not done so.

0:43.0

Mueller's report is still not publicly available,

0:46.6

and there may be a fight ahead over disclosure.

0:50.1

So when will we see the Mueller report?

0:53.0

And what key questions still remain on answer?

0:57.0

Let's get a topic that helps us understand the week's news.

1:18.0

My name is Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a CNN legal analyst.

1:26.5

And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez, a WGM radio host who will join us regularly

1:32.0

on this podcast. and someone who's just

1:35.0

genuinely interested in what the hell's going on that's I think that's probably how

1:39.2

we should introduce me from now on I love that that. It is fascinating. I will tell you though the exuberance that you show is not entirely. I suspect that the feeling that many of the listeners of our podcast have.

1:53.9

In other words, there's a lot of people out there who I think have felt disappointed and

1:58.9

deflated, but my hope is that none of them were people who were religiously listening to this podcast because we try to keep things

2:07.0

they think pretty grounded here. We've been talking a lot, particularly over the last several weeks,

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