Weekly Roundup: Thursday, June 14

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🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A Justice Department watchdog on Thursday criticized former FBI Director James Comey for violating long-standing department guidelines and mishandling the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016. We break down that report, and look at a new lawsuit filed against the Trump family. Plus, Republicans - sort of - find a compromise on immigration. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, Congressional correspondent Susan Davis and political editor Domenico Montanaro. 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 Ryan from Newport News, Virginia, and I'm doing nothing exciting. Just live in my life. I have to pull a that's kind of nice
0:08.2	This podcast was recorded at it's five it's five 20 on Thursday June 14 and things may have changed since then
0:16.1	But probably not in my life just an ordinary person
0:20.2	Thanks for listening now here's the show
0:22.5	Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast here with a roundup of the week's news
0:30.9	Including the big Department of Justice investigation into how the FBI handled the 2016 election
0:36.9	We will also talk about a new lawsuit against President Trump and where Republicans landed on immigration legislation
0:43.2	I've got that Troy cover Congress. I'm Kerry Johnson. I cover the Justice Department and I'm Ryan Lucas
0:47.9	I also cover the Justice Department
0:49.4	All right, so the way the FBI handled the 2016 presidential election and I think both of you would agree has really like loomed over
0:57.5	Washington DC ever since
0:59.7	Two years later. We're still talking about it. We're still thinking about it
1:03.2	It still has an effect on a lot of big stuff that's going on here
1:07.1	This is a big official Department of Justice report into that
1:11.7	Ryan can you explain what exactly this report is and how it fits into all the other statements and hearings and everything else
1:18.7	We've been digesting about James Kilmese actions in 2016 you bet well this is a
1:26.0	Report from the Justice Department's Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz
1:29.5	He announced that he was going to look into
1:33.1	Events surrounding the FBI's handling of the Clinton email investigation
1:37.5	He made that announcement back in January of 2017 around a week before President Trump was inaugurated and he said that he was going to look into these issues because of
1:45.3	Requests basically complaints really that he had received from members of Congress from members of the public about
1:51.7	The FBI and Justice Department's handling of the other Clinton investigation
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