CAFE Insider 10/21: Mick Mulvaney's Mess

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🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this clip from the CAFE Insider podcast, "Mick Mulvaney's Mess," co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram break down Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s walk-back of his quid pro quo Ukraine comments made at a press conference last week. Listen to the full episode with a free 2-week trial of the CAFE Insider membership. REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS MULVANEY’S PRESS CONFERENCE Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s press conference (video and transcript), 10/17/19 Mick Mulvaney’s interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, 10/20/19 Trump Doral & The G7 “What Is the Emoluments Clause?,” Encyclopedia Britannica “Trump was already violating the emoluments clause. Grabbing the G-7 is even worse,” The Washington Post, 10/18/19 “Trump Has Just the Place for the Next G7 Meeting: His Own Golf Resort,” The New York Times, 8/28/19 President Trump’s tweet announcing that the G7 in 2020 would no longer be held at the Trump National Doral resort in Florida, 10/19/19 “How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success,” The New Yorker, 12/27/18 Quid Pro Quo Admission The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Congress.gov “Mulvaney Says, Then Denies, That Trump Held Back Ukraine Aid as Quid Pro Quo,” The New York Times, 10/17/19 Trump’s “perfect call” tweet, 10/1/19 Letter sent by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to the General Prosecutor of Ukraine in 2018 raising their concerns that the Trump Administration could unduly pressure Ukraine into obstructing the Mueller investigation by withholding funding, 5/4/18 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.7	President Trump announced he would no longer host next year's G7 summit at his Trump National
1:06.8	Dural Miami Resort after mounting criticism from Democrats and Republicans. And after acting
1:12.0	White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, basically admitted that there was a quid pro
1:15.8	quo with Ukraine, he continues to back off on those statements. And more State Department
1:20.2	officials were deposed by House Democrats as evidence mounts about what's being described
1:24.2	as, quote, shadow diplomacy, spearheaded by the president's attorney slash fixer Rudy
1:29.4	Giuliani.
1:30.4	I talk about all this and more with Anne Milgram on the Cafe Insider podcast. Each week
1:34.6	we break down the news and take stock of what's happening. Today we're making a clip from
1:38.1	the most recent episode available in the stay tuned feed. To listen to our full conversation
1:42.5	and to access all other Cafe Insider content, try the membership free for two weeks. You can
1:47.7	do that at cafe.com slash insider. That's cafe.com slash insider.
1:54.7	All right, so quid pro quo, Mick Mulvaney comes out, does a briefing and basically says
2:03.8	that one of the reasons why we withheld the funds was we wanted them to do an investigation
2:07.8	with respect to the DNC. This is talking about Ukraine. And then everyone freaks out, including
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