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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on Bombshell, Quinta Jurecic of Lawfare (and Washington Post!) fame joins us to break down the Mueller investigation, AUMF debate, and whether Mike Flynn is really a character from a Coen Brothers' movie. We also discuss the president's trip to Asia and do our best to understand the drama in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, which is all happening without the benefit of a functioning State Department. Quinta confesses her love of James Comey's Twitter account, while Erin and Loren do their best cosplay courtesy of Rag and Bone.

Episode Reading:

Quinta Jurecic, "Robert Mueller can't save us," The Washington Post
Benjamin Wittes, "The Lawfare Podcast, Special Edition: A Person of Flynnterest," Lawfare
Julia Ioffe, "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks," The Atlantic
James V. Grimaldi, Shane Harris, and Aruna Viswanatha, "Mueller Probes Flynn's Role in Alleged Plan to Deliver Cleric to Turkey," The Wall Street Journal
Daniel W. Drezner, "Why Donald Trump's foreign policy ambitions will always collapse," The Washington Post
Zeeshan Aleem, "8 photos that sum up Trump's rollicking Asia tour so far," Vox
Anne Barnard, "Where's Saad Hariri? Lebanon Wants to Know," The New York Times
Louisa Loveluck and Suzan Haidamous, "Lebanese prime minister whose resignation shook the region says he will return 'very soon,'" The Washington Post
The Economist, "Saudi Arabia's unprecedented shake-up," The Economist
Zack Beauchamp, "The purge in Saudi Arabia, explained," Vox
Amb. Barbara Stephenson, "Time to Ask Why," American Foreign Service Association
Charlie Savage, "Will Congress Ever Limit the Forever-Expanding 9/11 War?," The New York Times
Scott Anderson and Sabrina McCubbin, "Summary: Senate Foreign Relations Committee's AUMF Hearing," Lawfare
Rag & Bone, Star Wars Collection (December 1, 2017)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren Diyang Shulman, and we are here this week with...
0:18.0	Hello, I'm Quinta Jurassic. We are so excited to have here as our special guest host for this lovely week on
0:25.6	bombshell.
0:26.8	Quinta is an associate editor at Lawfare and a research analyst at Brookings and has lots of
0:32.8	podcasting experience.
0:34.2	And so we're very excited for microphone discipline and all kinds of things, but I promise
0:37.7	I won't make you do the edits afterwards. So yeah, as long as I'm not in charge of the levels,
0:41.9	I'm happy. Perfect. Perfect. We have some exciting news for our listeners, Lauren. What do we have in store
0:48.6	for them? We have swag. We have swag in the store. Oh my gosh. We have swag. So for all of you
0:53.9	processed valentines, guess what?
0:55.4	You can have your very own process as your Valentine's tote or a mug.
1:00.5	Mug.
1:00.6	We also have bombshell mugs, totes, and t-shirts.
1:05.6	They are available at the Aaron, remind me of the URL.
1:09.0	War on the rocks.com slash store.
1:11.3	Yes, a very obvious one.
1:14.8	These are, you know, I think things you should carry around the Pentagon or perhaps while
1:19.3	shopping for booze, maybe for us, maybe good Christmas gifts to your loved ones.
1:24.4	I have designs on creating a bombshell gift guide,
1:28.3	and we'll see just what sorts of ridiculousness we could put on there,
1:32.3	besides our own swag, of course, which we think would make for excellent gifts.
1:35.3	Yeah, I mean, I will say law firm has recently ventured into the pillow and shower curtain business.
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