What did AG Barr hold back from his Mueller report summary?

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🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Rosalind S. Helderman on the people upset about what was left out of the Mueller report summary. David Ignatius on Jamal Khashoggi’s killing six months later. Plus, Jonathan Capehart on voices from the civil rights movement.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.0	It's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:08.0	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Elaheizari with the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martin Powers.
0:16.0	It's Thursday, April 4.
0:21.0	Today, reports of frustration within Robert Mueller's team.
0:27.0	Jamal Kushokji's final moments and voices from the Civil Rights Movement.
0:35.0	Very few people have seen the Mueller report.
0:39.0	But we've seen instead is a four-page letter from Attorney General William Barr
0:44.0	about the 400-page Mueller report.
0:47.0	He quoted the report.
0:49.0	It's one of only a handful of words that he actually gave us directly from the Mueller team.
0:54.0	Ross Helderman has been reporting on Barr's four-page letter.
0:58.0	And so this is what he said the report states.
1:01.0	He wrote, quote, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign
1:06.0	conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
1:12.0	So pretty straightforward.
1:14.0	They did not establish that they coordinated or conspired with the Russians.
1:19.0	And Trump has taken that letter to mean...
1:21.0	No collusion, no nothing.
1:24.0	So there's no collusion, the Attorney General now,
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