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The Bulwark Podcast
The book was described as marvelous, and it offered a scathing takedown of Bill Barr's actions regarding the Mueller report. The author began the book by recounting hearing Attorney General Bill Barr preemptively release his spin on the Mueller report via the radio.
I am still haunted by that scene in your marvelous book Where Law Ends Inside the Mueller Investigation. And you begin the book by describing how you were listening on the radio and you heard Bill Bar...
— Episode: Andrew Weissmann: Jack Smith Cometh
Episode: Andrew Weissmann: Jack Smith Cometh
The book was described as marvelous, and it offered a scathing takedown of Bill Barr's actions regarding the Mueller report. The author began the book by recounting hearing Attorney General Bill Barr preemptively release his spin on the Mueller report via the radio.
I am still haunted by that scene in your marvelous book Where Law Ends Inside the Mueller Investigation. And you begin the book by describing how you were listening on the radio and you heard Bill Barr preemptively releasing his spin on the Mueller report.
And your book is really a scathing takedown of what Barr did.
Mueller's fundamental flaw, Weissmann says, was a persistent faith in the Justice Department headed by his old friend William Barr.
The Mueller team had meticulously laid out their findings in their 448-page, antiseptically worded report only to be blindsided by Bill Barr's four-page self-styled summary, which Weissmann depicts as a nakedly cynical distortion of the truth we had just been played by the Attorney General.