Weekly Roundup: Thursday, February 21

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

New reports suggest that the Russia Investigation could end soon, so what happens when Robert Mueller finishes his work? Plus, the House Oversight Committee is busy investigating the Trump administration's ties to Saudi Arabia and prepares to question Michael Cohen. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, Congressional correspondent Susan Davis, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, editor correspondent Ron Elving, and political reporter Tim Mak. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Melissa, and one year ago I was a student journalist who saw the NPR politics podcast
0:06.1	team come to Cleveland. Scott Decho told me that I was going to have to apply to 30 different
0:11.7	jobs before landing the first one as a journalist. One year later, I just accepted a job as a
0:17.2	federal tech reporter, and I'm officially moving to DC this week to join the DC journalism scene.
0:23.1	This podcast was recorded at. I am very happy to hear that, and I have some context on the other side
0:28.6	of this. It's it is 2-11 Eastern on Thursday, February 21st. Things might have changed by the time
0:35.6	you've heard this. Okay, here's the show. That makes me sound like I was being a downer, but I was
0:42.9	saying like, keep at it. It just takes a while, but it's worth it. You should keep applying. Not
0:47.2	like, yeah, good luck. And congrats on your new job. Yes, congratulations. We are happy to have
0:51.2	you in DC. Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast. There are a lot of new reports that Robert
0:56.1	Mueller's Russia investigation may be coming to an end, so we are going to look at what President
1:01.4	Trump's new attorney general would do with those findings, what those findings may or may not
1:05.5	look like, whether the public will see them and a whole lot of other questions. And whether or not
1:10.6	we could that report next week, there is a lot of Trump investigation talk in Congress right now,
1:15.6	so we'll dig into all of that. I'm Scott Decho, I cover Congress. I'm Susan Davis, I also cover
1:20.3	Congress. I'm Kerry Johnson, I covered the Justice Department. And I'm Ron Elbing, editor correspondent.
1:25.4	So, Kerry, there's all these reports we could be seeing a report tomorrow next week, sometimes
1:30.8	soon. I feel like we've been hearing something like that for a while. So what reality is this
1:37.6	latest wave based on? Okay, Scott. So there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear,
1:44.1	but I think it's fair to report based on my conversations with sources that the Mueller part
1:51.2	of this probe is wrapping up and that lawyers working for Mueller are in conversations about
1:56.8	what next they might do in the government or outside the government. And he may be preparing to
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