The Mueller We Know

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

At a time of intense curiosity about the contents of the Mueller Report, and assessment of Mueller’s key decisions over the course of the probe, this episode brings together prominent former federal officials who each worked closely and at length under Mueller when he was United States Attorney and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director. Their vantage points, generally absent from the public discussion to date, give rise to educated surmises about Mueller’s calculations over the life of the probe to the present day, when he possibly is at odds with the Attorney General about critical conclusions from his probe. Host, Harry Litman, is joined in the San Francisco studio by Melinda Haag, Martha Boersch, and Candace Kelly. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Talking Feds, a prosecutor's roundtable that brings together some of the
0:12.0	best-known former Department of Justice officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important
0:18.0	legal topics of the day, including the investigations of the president and his circle.
0:24.0	Today we're talking about the surprising recent turn of events with special counsel Robert
0:28.8	Muller, who delivered his, we now know, 300-page plus report to the Attorney General last Friday,
0:36.6	and were really privileged to be talking with some of the former feds who know him best and have
0:42.1	worked closely with him. I'm Harry Littman, I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant
0:48.4	Attorney General, and also Assistant United States Attorney or Line Prosecutor. I'm in San
0:55.2	Francisco today near the U.S. Attorney's office where I started out and were later Robert Muller
1:00.9	served as United States Attorney under President Clinton and Bush. I'm joined by three former feds
1:09.0	who are not only intelligent and knowledgeable but who all worked for many years in offices run
1:15.0	by Robert Muller. Their perspectives and those of people who worked most closely with Muller
1:21.6	have been absent from all the TV and podcast discussions to date, so we're very happy that they're
1:28.3	all joining us. First, Melinda Hague, a partner at the law firm of Orrick Harrington, who was the
1:35.5	United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, the same position Muller had held
1:41.2	before her, between August 2010 through September 2015, and before that an AUSA for many years.
1:50.9	That was in two offices, right? How did that come to be that, a Melinda that you worked in two
1:55.0	different offices? I got a job in the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's office a year out of law school.
2:00.0	I was extraordinarily grateful for that. Hard thing to get right out of law school.
2:04.8	I couldn't believe it and felt incredibly lucky. Then needed to move back to San Francisco after
2:12.2	five years went back into private practice. There was actually a hiring freeze in San Francisco,
2:16.5	so I couldn't transfer. Bob Muller became the U.S. Attorney and I happened to meet him.
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