A Constitutional Recap of the Mueller Report
We the People
National Constitution Center
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🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome |
| 0:07.9 | to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:11.6 | The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit charted by Congress |
| 0:16.3 | to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people. |
| 0:21.4 | And on today's episode we shed needed constitutional light on the |
| 0:26.5 | Mueller report. We focus mainly on the question of obstruction of justice. |
| 0:30.7 | Does the special counsel's findings establish obstruction? |
| 0:36.5 | Can the president be guilty of obstruction and what are the statutory and constitutional and Friends of the We The People podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Mary McCord is senior litigator at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection |
| 0:57.6 | and a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. |
| 1:01.0 | She was acting assistant attorney general for national security at |
| 1:04.2 | the US Department of Justice from 2016 to 2017 and also worked at the US |
| 1:09.9 | Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Mary, thank you so much for joining. |
| 1:14.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:14.7 | It's great to be here. |
| 1:16.0 | And Josh Blackman is an associate professor of law |
| 1:18.2 | at the South Texas College of Law in Houston. |
| 1:20.9 | He is author of two critically acclaimed books on Obamacare and has twice testified before |
| 1:26.4 | the House Judiciary Committee on Executive Power and the Constitution. |
| 1:29.8 | He's an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, the founder and president of the Harlan |
| 1:33.6 | Institute and blogs at Josh Blackman.com. Josh it is great to have you back |
| 1:38.1 | on the show. It's great to be back, Jeff, thank you. Mary, let's dive in with the question of what the Mueller report says about obstruction of justice. |
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