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36: Voting rights, Durham’s investigation & civilian control of the military

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🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The #SistersInLaw meet this week to make the case for the voting rights bill currently before Congress.  Then, they examine the charging of Michael Sussman by Trump’s appointee John Durham relating to his investigation of the origins of the Russian inquiry, and discuss our history of civilian control of the military, how it relates to the chain of command, and recent events.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to hashtag Sisters in Law with Joyce Fance, Kimberly Eckenstor, and

0:17.2

me Jill Weinbanks.

0:19.4

Barb McQuade is away this week with her daughter on a sporting trip, so we'll miss her and

0:25.5

so will you, but today we will go ahead without her talking about the new voting rights bill

0:31.3

being considered in Congress. We'll discuss the indictment by special counsel Durham,

0:36.4

who was appointed by the Trump administration to investigate the origins of the Russian inquiry,

0:42.3

and will explain civilian control of the military after new revelations of general millies

0:48.0

concerns about Trump. As always, we really look forward to tackling some of your questions at the

0:54.1

end of the show. But before we get to any of those conversations, it's been a week of a lot of

1:00.1

food and a lot of non-food for Joyce and I at least because it was young Kapoor, which means

1:07.1

you have to fast. So Joyce, I know you cook a lot. What kind of foods did you cook for what's

1:13.5

called break fast? That's breakfast in two words as a break in the fast.

1:18.9

You know, my husband who's not Jewish always needs the reminder that Jewish holidays go from

1:25.6

sundown to sundown. So you start fasting at sundown one day and you end at sundown the next.

1:33.5

And it gives me actually a lot of compassion for my Muslim friends who do it for far longer than we

1:40.0

do. Right? I'm always super impressed that they do it for an entire month when I struggle with a

1:45.5

day. But this was a huge week for food in our house. It's the birthday of my oldest child was this week.

1:52.6

And so we decided to make him special meals every night. He's grown, he's a lawyer, he's just

1:58.5

taken a new job that he's really excited about. So we thought let's have some fun. So I made his

2:04.2

favorite dinner, rack of lamb, for his actual birthday on Tuesday night. It's one of his favorite

2:10.4

things. It's super easy, by the way. I use the joy of cooking recipe. It's sort of a no-fail

2:16.3

recipe with a good green salad and some spinach and and it's a meal and got a beautiful cake from a

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