After Trump, Episode 4: Prosecuting a President
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In the fourth episode of “After Trump,” the six-part limited podcast series based on the book, "After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency," by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, we explore how and when a president is held to account for wild and sometimes criminal behavior.
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| 0:27.3 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.3 | Good morning everyone and thank you for being here. |
| 0:43.6 | It's May 29th 2019. |
| 0:46.1 | DC is in the middle of a muggy, steamy heat wave. |
| 0:49.8 | It feels like mid-summer. |
| 0:51.6 | Hale is even predicted. |
| 0:54.0 | Two years ago the acting attorney general asked me to serve as special counsel and he |
| 1:00.4 | created the special counsel's office. |
| 1:03.0 | After years of round the clock speculation and silent investigation, much of it conducted |
| 1:08.2 | in skiffs, the hushed compartments that are basically tombs for deeply classified information, |
| 1:15.2 | special counsel Robert Mueller finally speaks. |
| 1:19.2 | This is the day much of America has been waiting for. |
| 1:22.1 | As his office has issued indictment after indictment, Mueller himself has stayed mum. |
| 1:28.3 | He's come to be regarded as an oracle and indeed his words are delfic. |
| 1:35.6 | The appointment order directed the office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 |
| 1:41.7 | presidential election. |
| 1:43.6 | This included investigating any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals |
| 1:49.5 | associated with the Trump campaign. |
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