The National Security Institute on Hot Topics in U.S. Foreign Policy

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🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Our friends from the National Security Institute at George Mason University stopped by earlier this week for their 3rd edition of Faultlines, to discuss a slew of U.S. foreign policy challenges. Lester Munson, Jodi Herman, and Dana Stroul, all former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers, as well as Matthew Heiman, an NSI senior fellow and experienced international and national security attorney, talked about Iran, the G20, North Korea, and what other U.S. foreign policy issues they are watching.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:56.6	Breaking news out of Washington, special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his
1:01.1	investigation and delivered his final report to US Attorney General William Barr.
1:08.1	On April 18th, 2019, the Justice Department released the redacted Mueller report to the public.
1:17.3	The 448 page document details a story that has captured America's attention.
1:23.7	From Russian plots to interfere with our election to constitutional questions of executive power,
1:29.0	the Mueller report is potentially one of the most important and consequential documents of our time.
1:35.2	But there's a problem. Very few people have actually read it.
1:41.2	Two years ago, the Acting Attorney General asked me to serve as special counsel.
1:46.7	And he created the special counsel's office.
1:49.2	It is important that the offices written work speak for itself.
1:53.4	It contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions.
1:57.9	And the report is my testimony.
2:00.2	The charge to say it was the work of 12 officers of Russian military intelligence.
2:04.7	The report did not clear the president of obstruction of justice who relentlessly sought to use
2:10.1	top White House staffers to quote, curtail the investigation.
2:14.2	The clearly stated that the Russian government wasn't far behind the interference operations
2:19.3	that we were seeing at the time.
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