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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report is finally public, and it’s not great! Politico’s Natasha Bertrand joins to talk about all the explosive revelations, the fallout, and what comes next. Then we discuss Bernie Sanders’s decision to hold a Fox News town hall, and hear from comedian Chelsea Handler about her crush on Robert Mueller and her political awakening.

Show Notes:

Finally Mueller time

• New York Times: The Mueller Report: Excerpts and Analysis
• Washington Post: The Mueller report, annotated
• New York Times: White House and Justice Dept. Officials Discussed Mueller Report Before Release
• Washington Post: Mueller report will be lightly redacted, revealing detailed look at obstruction of justice investigation
• Washington Post: Key members of Congress will get more complete version of the Mueller report than the public, prosecutors tell judge
• The Atlantic: Who’s Afraid of the Mueller Report?
• Washington Examiner: Trump legal team working to refine 140-page counter-report to Mueller findings
• Lawfare: Trump’s Planned Counter-Report Is Fair Game for Congressional Testimony
• Vox: William Barr will give a press conference on the Mueller report Thursday. Here’s how to watch.
• Washington Post: 3 ways the Mueller report still threatens Trump
• Politico: The White House’s Mueller reaction plan has a wild card: Trump
• Vanity Fair: RUDY GIULIANI’S MUELLER “COUNTER-REPORT” KEEPS GETTING SMALLER
• ABC News: Attorney General William Barr defends handling of Mueller report, says release ‘within a week’
• New York Times: Glimpses of the Mystery That Is the Mueller Investigation – Here are some pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. The full picture is missing.
• Empty Wheel: THE DEBATE WE MAY BE HAVING TOMORROW: IF TRUMP OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE TO HIDE COMPROMISE BY RUSSIA, COULD THAT BE A CRIME?
• Empty Wheel: HOW TO READ THE MUELLER REPORT
• New York Times: Mueller Report: Who and What the Special Counsel Investigated
• Washington Post: The normal person’s guide to the Mueller report
• New York Times: This Just In! Waiting for Mueller, Trump Passes Time Commenting on the News
• Daily Beast: The Mueller Report is the Tip of a Big, Slimy, Trump-Shaped Iceberg
• Lawfare: Mueller Report Redactions: Will Congress Ever See All of the Mueller Grand Jury Material?
• New Yorker: William Barr Prepares to Release a Redacted Mueller Report
• Washington Post: Barr said things Trump liked, and now he wields huge power. He’s not alone.
• Washington Post: Republicans seem to have already made up their minds on the Mueller report
• Washington Post: Lawmakers intent on sticking to script, no matter what Mueller report says
• Politico: Poll: Most Americans don’t think Mueller report will clear Trump
• Associated Press: AP-NORC Poll: Many want Congress to probe Trump-Russia
• Fox News: Fox News Poll: Approval of President Trump steady since Mueller probe ended
• CNN: Why Trump attacks: He knows he can’t win a referendum election in 2020
• Washington Post: Trump moves to resist House inquiries, setting up fight over congressional subpoena powers
• CNN: Waiting for Mueller, Democrats plow forward with probes
• Washington Post: Democrats could subpoena Mueller report redactions as soon as Friday
• Washington Post: How the legal battle for the full Mueller report could play out
• Washington Post: Media must ‘fight their own DNA’ to properly cover the redacted Mueller report.
• Talking Points Memo: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘I Support Impeaching This President’
• New York Magazine: Five Reasons Why Republicans Won’t Abandon Trump Like They Ditched Nixon
• Washington Post: Impeachment should be a no-brainer, no matter what the Mueller report says – Op-Ed

2020

• Daily Beast: Bernie’s Fox News Town Hall Was a Ratings Smash. More Dems May Follow Him There.
• Politico: Trump’s Fox News love fest hits a rough patch
• New York Times: 2020 Democrats Seek Voters in an Unusual Spot: Fox News
• Politico: Klobuchar to appear in Fox News town hall
• Huffington Post: Beto O’Rourke Says He Would Appear On Fox News
• Vox: Bernie Sanders’s Fox News town hall wasn’t a debate. Bernie won anyway.
• The Atlantic: Bernie Sanders Pierces the Fox News Bubble – A town hall on the network was a risk for the self-described “democratic socialist.” It paid off.
• Think Progress: Fox News town hall audience erupts in cheers when asked if they want single-payer
• Washington Post: Trump calls it ‘so weird’ to watch Bernie Sanders on Fox News
• Politico: Sanders takes on Fox — and emerges triumphant
• NBC News:  Op-Ed -Steve Krakauer Fox News, Bernie Sanders and the value of discomfort
• New York Magazine: Bernie Sanders Is the Howard Schultz of the Left
• New York Times: Bernie Sanders Accuses Liberal Think Tank of Smearing Progressive Candidates
• Daily Beast: ThinkProgress, a Powerful Democratic Media Arm, Calls Out Bernie Sanders for His Wealth
• Politico: Bernie became a millionaire in 2016, records show
• Washington Post: The Trailer: What we learned about Sanders 2020 this weekend – By David Weigel
• New York Times: The Rematch: Bernie Sanders vs. a Clinton Loyalist
• Washington Post: How a 78-year-old mom became collateral damage in a messy fight between Sanders and Clinton supporters
• Daily Beast: ‘New York Times’ Contacts Article Subject’s Mother. Twitter Erupts In Fury.
• Rolling Stone: Bernie Sanders and the Science of Smears
• New York Times: ‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum
• Washington Post: Bernie Sanders’s campaign escalates fight with establishment Democrats in reprise of 2016 party rifts
• Washington Post: How worrisome are the divisions among Democrats? – Plumline
• American Prospect: How Think Progress Would Have Attacked Franklin Roosevelt
• Washington Post: Gillibrand backs challenger to antiabortion House Democrat
• New Yorker: Bernie Sanders Imagines a Progressive New Approach to Foreign Policy

Natasha Bertrand

• Empty Wheel: WILLIAM BARR’S ASYMMETRIC CONFUSION ABOUT SHITTY MUELLER REPORTING
• Empty Wheel: WILLIAM BARR FALSELY DENIES HIS MUELLER MEMO MAKES THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT
• The Atlantic: Barr May Do Exactly What Trump Wants
• New Yorker: William Barr and Why Democrats Shouldn’t Expect This Era to Be Anything Like Watergate
• New York Times: The Integrity of William Barr
• ABC News: Old Friends: William Barr and Robert Mueller may work together again, in a very different time
• Washington Post: The Russians know exactly what Putin and Trump talked about, but we probably won’t find out for decades
• Vox: The weekend’s Trump-Russia news, explained
• BBC News: US press in decline over claims Trump worked for Russia – Moscow
• CNN: Senate Democrats’ effort to block Trump move on Russia sanctions fails
• New York Times: Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery.
• The Atlantic: Bill Barr Breaks With Trump on the Mueller Probe
• The Atlantic: Maria Butina’s Defiant Plea and Yet Another Russian Ploy
• The Atlantic: Mueller’s Memos and the Alleged Lies of the Trump Lieutenants
• The Atlantic: Manafort’s Own Lawyers May Have Hastened His Downfall
• The Atlantic: Is Manafort Angling for a Pardon?
• The Atlantic: Michael Cohen Pays the Price for His ‘Blind Loyalty’ to Trump
• The Atlantic: A Surge in Foreign-Influence Prosecutions
• The Atlantic: Mueller’s Sentencing Memo for Flynn Doubles as a Warning to Manafort
• The Atlantic: The Special Counsel Is Bearing Down on Roger Stone
• The Atlantic: The President Humiliates His Own Department of Justice
• The Atlantic: FBI Agents Say the Shutdown Is a Threat to National Security
• The Atlantic: Michael Flynn’s Lawyers Appear to Have Badly Miscalculated