Welcome to the Muck Rake podcast. I'm Nick Houselman, and as always, I'm joined by Jared Yates Sexton.

And I'm going to start the podcast today because Jared is so upset and angry with what happened in the William Barr interview with Pete Williams at NBC.

I needed to give him a

couple extra seconds just to hopefully maybe chill out a little bit, but I still want to tap into

some of this anger because it was really, really unbelievable what we had to listen to the other

day. Jared? Yeah, you know, we're going to do some emergency podcasts every now and then when

times necessitate it.

And I think the United States Attorney General getting in front of a camera for a national mainstream outlet and lying, bold-faced and promoting authoritarian principles and basically trying to subjugate the entire

rule of law while also throwing the Justice Department under the bus and just twisting reality

to the point to help a criminal president. I think that that qualifies as an emergency podcast topic,

right?

Yeah, yeah.

And it's not like it's the first time he's done this.

So we're sort of embroiled in this repeated behavior, which is sort of like the crucial

that we're looking under Trump at.

Even though these impeachment proceedings are only two articles, this isn't in a vacuum.

And I think that's what the Republicans are getting so bogged down about it.

It's not just two sentences in a call.

And this is not just William Barr talking about, you know, this one interview.

It's what he did with the Mueller report.

And by the way, I thought what we could do here to make it really easy on us or easy for everyone to follow is I want to just sort of break down this interview bit by bit and we're going to go through it and pull apart what he's saying and why it was so ridiculous.

That sounds great but also infuriating.

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