The Report, Episode 15: Mueller's Report
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It Friday, March 22, 2019. It’s been nearly two years since Robert Mueller was first appointed Special Counsel. Now, he’s ready to submit a final report to the Attorney General. He has uncovered a sprawling and systematic effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. And he’s developed a mountain of evidence about the president’s efforts to obstruct his investigation, things like witness tampering, ordering the creation of false records, and trying to fire Mueller himself.
But Mueller’s got a problem: a Department of Justice memo says he can’t indict a sitting president. So what is he supposed to do with all this evidence? Mueller decides to just lay it all in the report, all 448 pages of it. It’ll be someone else’s problem to decide what to do about it: maybe a future prosecutor, maybe Congress, maybe the America electorate. That isn’t really Mueller’s concern. He’s done what he was asked to do. Now his report can speak for itself.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.3 | It's Friday, March 22, 2019. |
| 0:34.2 | It's been nearly two years since Robert Mueller was first appointed special counsel. |
| 0:38.8 | Now, he's ready to submit a final report to the Attorney General. |
| 0:44.6 | He has uncovered a sprawling and systematic effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 |
| 0:50.2 | election. |
| 0:51.2 | And he's developed a mountain of evidence about the president's efforts to obstruct |
| 0:55.8 | his investigation, things like witness tampering, ordering the creation of false records, and |
| 1:02.8 | trying to fire Mueller himself. |
| 1:06.4 | But Mueller's got a problem. |
| 1:08.3 | A Department of Justice memo says he can't indict a sitting president. |
| 1:13.1 | So what's he supposed to do with all this evidence? |
| 1:16.1 | Mueller decides to just lay it all out in the report. |
| 1:19.6 | All 448 pages of it. |
| 1:23.0 | It'll be someone else's problem to decide what to do about it. |
| 1:27.0 | Maybe a future prosecutor. |
| 1:28.9 | Maybe Congress. |
| 1:30.4 | Maybe the American electorate. |
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