The Report, Episode 7: Charging Decisions

Published: Sept. 1, 2019, 7 p.m.

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It\\u2019s April 18, 2019, Attorney General Bill Barr summons reporters to the Department of Justice in Washington DC. Robert Mueller\\u2019s report is about to be released. Before the press and the public finally see the document for themselves, Barr wants a chance to tell his own version of the story it contains. But is the bottom line according to Barr the same as the bottom line according to Robert Mueller? We\\u2019ll let you decide.

Previous episodes have told the story of the factual findings of the Mueller report\\u2014what did investigators figure out about what happened? And what were the questions they couldn\\u2019t fully answer? Conducting the investigation is one part of the Special Counsel\\u2019s job: collecting evidence and assembling a record. But the investigation actually supports Mueller\\u2019s larger responsibility: he must reach a set of legal conclusions about the evidence his team has found. The Special Counsel needs to decide which parts of the story laid out in Volume One of the Report amount to prosecutable crimes.

This episode covers those decisions. Where does Mueller decide to bring charges? And when he doesn\\u2019t, is that because he thinks nothing improper or possibly criminal occurred? Or is it because he finds that the evidence just isn\\u2019t sufficient to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt? Here\\u2019s what the Mueller Report says about how the Special Counsel\\u2019s office made these decisions.

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