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The Al Franken Podcast

95: BEST OF - Neal Katyal On How Trump Would Be Prosecuted

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🗓️ 1 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The documents? January 6th? The Raffensperger call?

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Peter and I are taking a well-deserved break for Christmas and New

0:09.3

years. And when I say well-deserved, we did 44 podcasts this year. So we're repeating a couple

0:16.0

of best subs. This one is Neil Cottial. Neil, of course, the former acting Solicitor General during the Obama administration.

0:24.9

The Solicitor General argues on behalf of the administration before the Supreme Court.

0:29.6

And since Neil left that job, he continues to argue before the court and wins so much that he has the distinction of winning more SCOTUS cases than any other minority lawyer.

0:42.2

Neil's Indian, India Indian.

0:44.6

And you'll see in this, I give Neil a little shit here because he can't tell me if that includes Jews.

0:53.0

And we are a minority group.

0:56.4

What Neil and I talked about when we recorded this a few months ago was the various options

1:01.7

that the Department of Justice will have and how they prosecute Donald Trump,

1:06.3

assuming they do, which they have to.

1:09.4

What charges does Merrick Garland indict them on? Do you do everything?

1:14.3

Do you just do the most cut and dried like the classified documents? And Neil walks us through that.

1:19.9

So I thought this one was a timely one to repeat because it's really, really a great one.

1:26.9

You know, for a change.

1:36.1

We met, finally, I had never met you at the Dead and Company show.

1:42.6

It was amazing.

1:44.4

Wasn't that?

1:45.3

It was.

1:46.7

Mayor is so good.

1:48.3

He's grown into that so brilliantly.

1:51.4

Yeah, and I have to say, like, so my last dead show before this was actually Jerry

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