After Trump, Episode 5: Independent Justice
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In the fifth 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 consider whether the Justice Department is really independent of the president.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | You swear that the testimony you're about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth, |
| 0:37.0 | and nothing but the truth so help you God. |
| 0:41.0 | It's early 2017, and former Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, |
| 0:46.0 | the first sitting senator to endorse Trump way back in February of 2016, |
| 0:52.0 | is about to land his dream job. |
| 0:55.0 | It doesn't take too long for that dream to lurch into a nightmare. |
| 1:01.0 | How do you plan to address those concerns? |
| 1:04.0 | I do believe that that could place my objectivity in question. |
| 1:09.0 | I've given that thought. |
| 1:11.0 | I believe the proper thing for me to do would be to recuse myself from any questions involving those kind of investigations. |
| 1:19.0 | Jeff Sessions was a disastrous attorney general, should have never been attorney general, he's not qualified, |
| 1:25.0 | he's not mentally qualified to be attorney general. |
| 1:28.0 | He was the biggest problem. |
| 1:29.0 | Sessions gets the job right after he gets the job, very guilty. |
| 1:34.0 | Sessions should have never recused himself, |
| 1:37.0 | and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job |
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