What's in the Mueller report?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The investigation has taken nearly two years, cost tens of millions of dollars, and led to dozens of criminal charges. Now, a redacted version of Robert Mueller’s report into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 US Presidential election is going to be delivered to Congress.
This week David Aaronovitch and his guests in the Briefing Room examine what’s in the report, and what does it all mean - especially for Donald Trump and his prospects for winning a second presidential term next year.
Contributors: Katie Benner, Justice Department reporter, New York Times Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Head of the US and the Americas Programme, Chatham House Shira Scheindlin, former United States District Judge Larry Sabato, Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. |
| 0:09.3 | The idea is that you and I step into a large room |
| 0:12.2 | crammed with computers, maps, reference books and top experts |
| 0:15.9 | whose only job is to give us the most thorough briefing possible |
| 0:19.2 | on the burning questions of the day. |
| 0:22.2 | And our singeing question today is all about the release of the report by special counsel Robert |
| 0:27.8 | Mueller on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. What's in it? And what does it |
| 0:34.7 | all mean, especially for Donald Trump and his prospects for winning a |
| 0:38.6 | second presidential term next year? And if you enjoy this podcast, you might enjoy other |
| 0:43.5 | editions of the briefing room, which are all available on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:56.1 | One was low key. |
| 1:02.0 | After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other department lawyers, the Deputy Attorney General |
| 1:07.8 | and I concluded that the evidence developed by the Special Counsel |
| 1:12.5 | is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense. |
| 1:18.7 | One was happy. |
| 1:19.7 | I won. |
| 1:20.7 | No collusion, no obstruction. |
| 1:23.0 | I won. |
| 1:24.2 | Some were cross. |
| 1:25.7 | Criminal or not, it's immoral and it's undemocratic and frankly it's un-American. |
| 1:31.8 | The investigation has taken nearly two years, cost tens of millions of dollars and led to dozens of criminal charges. |
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