Washington Post: Post Reports Podcast for 04 April 2019 – What did AG Barr hold back from his Mueller report summary?
24/04/2019
tags: Chattanooga Times Free Press, Civil Rights, Clay Bennett, Jamal Khashoggi, Mueller Report, Podcast, Political Cartoons, Post Reports, Saudi Arabia, Toxic Politics, Trumpworld, William Barr
On a lighter note this cartoon from Clay Bennett – Chattanooga Times Free Press – 17042019
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.
In this episode
All the things Barr’s summary of the Mueller report didn’t sayDemocratic lawmakers are not happy with Attorney General William P. Barr after The Washington Post obtained information that his summary of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report omitted certain details. No one in Congress has seen Mueller’s full, nearly 400-page, report on the investigation into President Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.Now, Mueller’s team indicates that it’s also not happy with Barr’s summary, saying it leaves out key details. Rosalind S. Helderman covers politics and joins Post Reports host Martine Powers to talk about why the Mueller team isn’t satisfied with the attorney general’s summary.
- Limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller’s team
- What we are still waiting to learn from the Mueller report
- Mueller’s punt on obstruction question throws issue into the political arena
More details on journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killingSix months ago Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. Now, there are more details surrounding his killing. Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius was Khashoggi’s colleague. He was also his friend of 15 years.Ignatius says he knows more about his friend’s death six months after his killing. Those details show how Khashoggi never left that consulate.
- The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
- Khashoggi children have received houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments as compensation for killing of father
- How the mysteries of Khashoggi’s murder have rocked the U.S.-Saudi partnership
51 years after MLK’s assassination, we hear from someone who was thereOn April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of a hotel in Memphis.Civil rights activist Andrew Young spoke to The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart about what he remembers from that day.
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