Mar 26, 2019
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William, Bill (just don’t call him Bob) Barr’s summary of the Mueller Report is awful, sure, but in his defense, he didn’t have to write a good one. Barr made a hot take on deadline, which was exactly what his bosses wanted, and all that Republicans have needed since the 2000 election.
My job is much tougher. Today, for two hours, David Waldman and Armando talked about the politics and realpolitik behind the scenes, the structure of laws, rules and precedent supporting it all, and how and where it really doesn’t matter. Really, I can’t do it justice. You will need to listen to all of it, maybe twice, to get all the details.
Now that the DOJ has killed the Mueller threat, it’s time to move on to killing healthcare. Republicans zeroed out the penalty for being uninsured under the Affordable Care Act, and now hope to zero out the whole thing. David and Armando talk about the politics, yes politics, behind the decisions of the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump doesn’t have to collude with Russia, if he just cedes all foreign policy to them.