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🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey stay tuned listeners. I hope you and your loved ones are staying healthy and safe during |
0:05.2 | these extraordinarily difficult times. As many of you know Anne Milgram and I co-host |
0:09.3 | the Cafe Insider podcast where every Tuesday we break down politically charged legal issues |
0:14.1 | making the headlines. The podcast is part of the Cafe Insider membership and I'm so glad |
0:18.7 | that insiders are staying engaged, writing in with questions and comments. Thank you |
0:22.5 | as always for helping support our work. As we make sense of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, |
0:28.1 | we're taking down the paywall on the podcast so that everyone can listen and participate. |
0:32.2 | For part of this special episode, Anne and I are lucky to be joined by our friend Neil |
0:35.6 | Barovsky. During the last financial crisis, Neil served as the special inspector general |
0:40.1 | for the tarp stimulus bill, making him the chief watchdog in charge of policing the implementation |
0:44.8 | of the 2008 bank bailout. Neil joins us to break down the oversight mechanisms in the |
0:49.5 | coronavirus stimulus package, the challenges associated with policing massive government |
0:53.9 | bailouts and the lessons he learned from being on the front lines the last time Congress |
0:58.0 | passed a major stimulus. What follows is a sample of our conversation. If you want to hear |
1:02.8 | our full discussion for free, go to cafe.com slash preet and sign up to receive an email |
1:08.1 | with a link to the episode. That's cafe.com slash preet. And if you already receive emails |
1:13.3 | from cafe, then check your inbox. It should be there or arrive shortly. One of the issues |
1:21.7 | is whether or not an inspector general can be fired for any reason. And this inspector |
1:26.6 | general can only be fired for cause. And the president wrote or at least signed a letter |
1:31.1 | that was kind of short that basically said that this inspector general no longer had |
1:35.3 | his fullest confidence, which doesn't usually meet the standard for cause. What do you |
1:41.4 | make of it? Generally speaking, and when I serve as special inspector general, I served |
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