Bob Bauer on Trump and the White House Counsel

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🗓️ 27 May 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amidst the hurricane of news coming out of the White House in recent weeks, one question has surfaced again and again: why isn't White House Counsel Don McGahn stopping Donald Trump from doing all this? This week on the podcast, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Bob Bauer, former White House Counsel for Barack Obama, to talk about the Office of the White House Counsel and how President Trump can and can't be restrained.

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1:06.0	I've never met Donald Trump, but one would have to start with the working proposition
1:10.0	that he's not an easy client to have.
1:12.0	That he has a very instrumental view of the law,
1:16.0	that he carries over from the private sector,
1:18.0	and therefore if you will, a very instrumental view of the role of lawyers.
1:22.0	The law is something that pops up in the course of his affairs
1:26.0	that should be managed, managed with particular outcome,
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