CAFE Insider 1/5: Bad Call

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Anne break down whether President Trump committed a crime when, in an hour-long phone call over the weekend, he pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes necessary to flip the election in his favor. In the full episode, Preet and Anne discuss Republican Senators’ last-ditch effort to subvert the election results in Congress and Vice President Pence’s role in counting the electoral ballots. To listen to the full episode and get access to all exclusive CAFE Insider content, including audio notes from Preet and Elie Honig and the United Security and Cyber Space podcasts, try out the membership free for two weeks: www.cafe.com/insider Sign up to receive the weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, featuring analysis by Elie Honig: www.cafe.com/brief This podcast is produced by CAFE Studios. Tamara Sepper – Executive Producer; Adam Waller – Senior Editorial Producer; Matthew Billy – Audio Producer; Jake Kaplan – Editorial Producer REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS: “Here’s the full transcript and audio of the call between Trump and Raffensperger,” WaPo, 1/3/21 “‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor,” WaPo, 1/3/21 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, there's already plenty of politically charged legal news making the headlines in
0:05.7	2021.
0:07.2	In a leaked recording of an hour-long Saturday phone call, President Trump pressured Georgia
0:11.3	Secretary of State Brad Raffinsberger to find the votes necessary to flip the election
0:16.4	in Trump's favor.
0:17.8	Meanwhile, a number of Republican senators, led by Missouri's Josh Hawley, plan to participate
0:22.4	in the last-ditch effort to challenge the results of the presidential election when Congress
0:26.5	meets tomorrow to formally certify the electoral college vote.
0:30.5	And there are questions surrounding Vice President Pence's role in the certification
0:33.4	vote, and whether he will join the group of Republican senators in attempting to subvert
0:37.7	the will of the voters.
0:39.6	And Milgram and I discuss all of this and more on the Cafe Insider podcast.
0:43.8	Today, we're sharing a clip from the episode with listeners of Stay Tuned.
0:47.3	To hear our full conversation and access all other Cafe Insider content, try the membership
0:52.2	free for two weeks.
0:53.8	You can do that at cafe.com slash insider.
0:56.8	That's cafe.com slash insider.
0:59.8	College students with a valid.edu email can head to cafe.com slash student and sign up
1:05.0	at a lower rate.
1:06.0	Again, that's cafe.com slash student.
1:09.6	We look forward to having you as a part of the insider community.
1:16.7	Here's somebody who called in, David who listens to the show.
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