Welcome to a special episode of Talking Feds, a prosecutor's round table that brings

together prominent former Department of Justice officials for a dynamic discussion of the

most important legal topics of the day.

And today we have maybe the most important legal topic of the year or the Trump presidency

because we finally have the Mueller report in our hands and we finally have Bill Barr's

account of exactly what he did with the Mueller report and we're going to talk about both.

Now I'll say we've had the report for an entire half hour so these will be top line reactions

and there will be more.

This is Harry Littman, a former US Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General.

I'm joined by Amy Jeffress who you already know at Talking Feds, a partner and Arnold

and Porter, the former DOJ attaché to the US Embassy and a long time assistant US Attorney.

And Paul Fishman, a partner at the law firm of Arnold and Porter like Amy, Paul was the

United States Attorney for New Jersey from 2009 through 2017 and has also been a senior

DOJ official for many years.

And we're pleased to welcome to the program for the first time Jennifer Rogers, a lecturer

at Columbia Law School and the former Deputy Chief of Pellet Attorney at the US Attorney's

Office for the Southern District of New York.

All right, let's skip the pattern and dive right in.

So today we had first at 930 before the report had issued a remarkable press conference

from the Attorney General who laid out the conclusions of the report, gave a very strong

defense of the president in the president's language of no collusion, no collusion, no

collusion and then switched to obstruction and made it clear that special counsel Robert

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