The Thing With These Investigations

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🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Jacob Weisberg speaks with Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and The New Yorker about what we could expect as Mueller gears up as special prosecutor in the Russian investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.6	Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
0:06.7	Right.
0:07.2	Did you ask for a recommendation?
0:09.2	What I did is I was going to fire, call me.
0:12.8	My decision.
0:13.6	It was not...
0:14.1	You would make the decision before they came in.
0:15.6	I was going to fire a call me.
0:18.9	He asked them for their recommendation based on the conversation that they had on Monday.
0:23.3	Oh, I was going to fire regardless of the recommendation.
0:25.3	So there was a way where I'm going to...
0:26.3	My understanding is that this was an independent decision.
0:29.1	If it's possible, will you let me know?
0:31.7	Am I under investigation?
0:33.4	Is it you are not under investigation?
0:36.1	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.
0:43.9	The show about the White House where the flags hide in the bushes and honest public servants
0:49.6	try to blend in with the curtains.
0:51.6	Donald Trump's.
0:53.1	I'm Jacob Weispert.
0:55.9	So I think it's great news that we have a special prosecutor investigating Donald Trump.
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