142: The Last Guardrails of Democracy with George Conway
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🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by George Conway, Attorney and Contributing Columnist for The Washington Post. They discuss the legal implications of January 6th, the prosecutions that could ultimately come as a result of the case being built by the House Select Committee on January 6th, and what would Donald Trump’s motivations be to seek the Oval Office once again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Before we get started, I just want to encourage everyone here. Watch the select |
| 0:05.8 | committee on January 6th hearings. I think it is an important historical record of one of the |
| 0:12.0 | worst days in our country's history. And I think it's important that you are able to see for yourselves |
| 0:17.2 | just what happened on that day. Who was responsible and that you can share that information with |
| 0:22.7 | your friends and your family and your colleagues when they say none of it matters. Every bit of it |
| 0:28.0 | matters. I hope you'll tune in. I hope you'll find all of our content. Ask us questions. And now on |
| 0:34.1 | with the show. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Rie Gail. Today, I'm excited to welcome back to |
| 0:49.5 | the show, the one the only George Conway. He is a super lawyer contributing columnist for the |
| 0:55.7 | Washington Post and a man all about town. George, glad to have you back. Well, thanks for having me. |
| 1:02.3 | So George, today we're recording this episode on the evening of June 14th before the third public |
| 1:08.0 | hearing from the House Select Committee on January 6th, which is now scheduled to take place sometime |
| 1:12.4 | on Thursday. This will probably be right after the third hearing. So I want to get into some of |
| 1:18.8 | what your thoughts are already about what you've seen, what else you expect to see, and then what |
| 1:24.5 | you think the outcome will be of this. And I know that you and I have spent the last couple of |
| 1:29.2 | years, even more than that, probably dissecting Donald Trump himself. Obviously, you're very close |
| 1:35.1 | to it. The administration, all the people around him. So is Rick likes to say we're the anthropologist |
| 1:39.9 | of the worst people in the world sometimes. But let's start. So what do you think so far? |
| 1:45.2 | I think they've been doing a fantastic job. I have no material complaints about how they've |
| 1:50.7 | conducted themselves. I thought that last Thursday, they did a terrific job introducing the whole |
| 1:57.5 | set of hearings. I thought the chairman's statement was great at a very high level and |
| 2:02.9 | setting the moral tone. And I thought that Liz Cheney did a masterful prosecutorial opening |
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