00:00Robert Mueller has died aged 81. He was a director of the FBI, but is perhaps best known in his
00:06role as special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
00:14Mueller stopped short of a criminal indictment of Trump.
00:19First, our investigation found that the Russian government interfered in our election in sweeping and systematic fashion.
00:29Second, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in its election
00:36interference activities.
00:42Trump repeatedly dismissed Mueller's investigation as a witch hunt. He reacted to news of his death, saying...
00:50Robert Mueller just died. Good. I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.
00:56Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give shall be the truth?
00:59Mueller was the second longest-serving director in FBI history behind J. Edgar Hoover.
01:05He began his 12-year tenure just a week before the 9-11 attacks in 2001,
01:10and switched the Bureau's priority from solving domestic crime to preventing terrorism.
01:16He was legendary within the Department of Justice for a long, long time, even before he was director of the
01:22FBI,
01:23because he had headed as the top prosecutor some of the key federal prosecutors' offices around the country.
01:31Sometimes he'd been brought in in times of crisis.
01:34Mueller went to Princeton and was an officer for three years during the Vietnam War,
01:39before eventually becoming the sixth head of the FBI.
01:42The FBI Agents Association cited Mueller's commitment to public service and to the FBI's mission.
01:48He died after living for several years with Parkinson's disease.
01:51He died after living for an un gardening断.
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