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Speaker 1: M M. Welcome to the Bloomberg Law Podcast. I'm June Grosso.

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Speaker 1: Every day we bring you insight and analysis into the

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Speaker 1: most important legal news of the day. You can find

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Speaker 1: more episodes of the Bloomberg Law Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud,

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com slash podcasts. We're just learning

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Speaker 1: how far Bar is going in terms of doing a

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Speaker 1: review of the investigation into the Trump campaign. Bar has

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Speaker 1: thrown a lot of stuff on the table in terms

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Speaker 1: of leads that he's looking into, which includes whether there

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Speaker 1: was unauthorized spying on the Trump campaign during the summer

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Speaker 1: of Bar hasn't specifically described the scope of of of

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Speaker 1: his review at this time. At this time, but he's

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Speaker 1: made it clear that he is taking this seriously and

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Speaker 1: is going to be more aggressive than UM the former

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Speaker 1: Attorney General Jeb Sessions was. And the language that Bars

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Speaker 1: using at this point aligns with language that is being

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Speaker 1: used by Trump and Republicans in Congress about the allegations

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Speaker 1: that there was wrongdoing or even a legal activity when

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Speaker 1: it came to UM investigating Russia's interference in the election.

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Speaker 1: Is he is he going to form a specific team

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Speaker 1: to do this, He's going to form a team. Um

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Speaker 1: is not clear yet exactly how big the team is

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Speaker 1: going to be or who's going to be on it.

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Speaker 1: He is in the process of identifying the personnel that

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Speaker 1: he wants to work with him. The way he's described

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Speaker 1: this is that he wants to pull together everything that's

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Speaker 1: known at this point through the through various investigations, and

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Speaker 1: then see where there might be gaps in knowledge or

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Speaker 1: leads that should be pursued further. So there are some

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Speaker 1: conflicting investigations that are happening right now. The Justice Department

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Speaker 1: Inspector General is doing an investigation into aspects of the

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Speaker 1: of the Russia investigation, and what Bar is talking about

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Speaker 1: seems to over overlap with some of that. And there's

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Speaker 1: been investigations by Republicans in Congress that have looked at

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Speaker 1: other activities that took place during the summer, and Bar

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Speaker 1: has indicated that some of what he's gonna do is

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna overlap with that. And so Bar hasn't

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Speaker 1: been clear in terms of what he's doing exactly, but

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Speaker 1: he says that he wants to pull together all the

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Speaker 1: different threats and look at it as a whole. Has

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Speaker 1: anything come out so far definitively about what happened at

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Speaker 1: the initial formation of the inquiry. Well, we've never had

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Speaker 1: any kind of an official investigative report about what took

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Speaker 1: place during the summer and into into the election. Um.

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Speaker 1: The what we know is that the FBI did get

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Speaker 1: a FISA warrant in order to conduct surveillance on on

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Speaker 1: carter Page who worked for the Trump campaign or was

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Speaker 1: he was a volunteer for the Trump campaign And when

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Speaker 1: the FBI obtained the warrant, carter Page was no longer

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Speaker 1: part of the Trump campaign. And we know based on

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Speaker 1: disclosures that have been made that the warrant to do

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Speaker 1: surveillance on carter Page was was was authorized by the

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Speaker 1: FISA court and approved by by multiple judges and approved

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Speaker 1: by multiple people inside the Department of Justice. It and

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Speaker 1: so there's been a lot there's been an attack by

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Speaker 1: Republicans that the carter Page by the warrant was was

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Speaker 1: illegal and represent represented an overreach. But the evidence that

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Speaker 1: we have shows that it was approved and authorized in

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Speaker 1: the appropriate way and approved by by multiple judges. We've

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Speaker 1: also had the Departments inspector General look at UH some

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Speaker 1: aspects of the beginning of the of the the Russia

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Speaker 1: investigation and say that there's been no wrongdoing found yet,

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Speaker 1: but the i G is doing a deeper dive on

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Speaker 1: this and that's part of an ongoing investigation that is

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Speaker 1: expected to conclude either in May or June. Thanks for

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