Contempt & The Court (with Joan Biskupic)

On this episode of Stay Tuned, "Contempt & The Court," host Preet Bharara answers your questions about:

-- Why he didn’t sign on to the statement by former federal prosecutors asserting that if Trump were not the president, he would be charged with obstruction of justice.

-- What Attorney General Bill Barr would do had Special Counsel Bob Mueller recommended indicting the president

-- Whether lying to the media is a crime, and

-- The extent to which federal investigators share evidence with their state counterparts

Joan Biskupic, Supreme Court biographer and a veteran journalist, joins Preet for a discussion of her most recent book, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts. Currently a full-time analyst for CNN, Biskupic has covered the Court for over three decades starting as a reporter at The Washington Post in the early 1990s.

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