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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Trump refuses to allow unredacted Mueller report to go to Congress

    President Trump has asserted executive privilege over the entire Mueller report, saying he won’t comply with the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoenas for the unredacted report or the underlying evidence.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 8, 2019 • 1 min read

    President Trump has asserted executive privilege over the entire Mueller report, saying he won’t comply with the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoenas for the unredacted report or the underlying evidence. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said, “Faced with Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the attorney general’s request, the president has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege.” This comes as the New York Times found that Trump lost more than a billion dollars over 10 years.

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    The full episode

    1 of 4
    Rideshare drivers strike ahead of Uber’s IPO
    1. 0:00Trump refuses to allow unredacted Mueller report to go to CongressYou’re reading this
    2. 12:33Rideshare drivers demand higher wages as Uber prepares for a multi-billion dollar IPO
    3. 21:03Poor black women at the turn of the 20th Century lived quiet, revolutionary lives
    4. 37:47Why director Joe Berlinger focuses on serial killer Ted Bundy’s charms instead of his crimes
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