Bye Bye, 2020
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It is the last podcast of the year, and we are giving 2020 an appropriate send-off. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare executive editor Susan Hennessey, managing editor Quinta Jurecic, senior editor Scott Anderson, and Lawfare contributor and law professor Alan Rozenshtein to talk about the worst stories of the year, as well as their expectations and predictions for the coming year.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.0 | The worst story of 2020 and the worst national security story of 2020 is hands down without |
| 0:41.8 | any close competition, the complete and utter failure of the coronavirus response by the |
| 0:48.1 | US federal government. |
| 0:49.4 | Even if the Democrats win the two Georgia Senate races, they're going to still have trouble |
| 0:53.4 | pushing any sort of ambitious agenda through. |
| 0:55.8 | Has Donald Trump shown us that the arrangements that we've relied upon that we came into |
| 0:59.9 | this year and the last several years with, are they strong enough to propel us into this |
| 1:04.8 | next decade and this next phase of American history? |
| 1:07.4 | We are once again hearing indications that a major confrontation with Iran might be part |
| 1:15.0 | of the last few days of a Trump administration. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, I have to say my first pick for a villain was Bill Barr and then my second pick for |
| 1:22.5 | a villain was Mitch McConnell. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Benjamin Whittes and this is the LawFair podcast December 30th, 2020. |
| 1:31.8 | It is the last podcast of the year of the year 2020 no less. |
| 1:38.8 | So we thought we would give 2020 an appropriate send off. |
| 1:44.4 | Good riddance, bad rubbish. |
| 1:46.6 | We're going to talk about the worst stories of the year as well as our expectations and |
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