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Can You Indict the President?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School about what it would take to prosecute a sitting president. Plus, is the free speech decision about Trump's Twitter wrong? And is Trump taking a page out of Bill Clinton's book? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

A court will probably conclude that criminal charges cannot be brought against a sitting

0:07.3

president.

0:08.3

Ultimately, Richard Nixon was not indicted.

0:10.1

Instead, prosecutors opted to let the impeachment proceedings in Congress run their course.

0:15.2

The bottom line legal issue is the president is not above the law.

0:19.8

He is not King George.

0:28.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who won't be making peace with

0:33.1

North Korea after all.

0:35.1

Donald Trump.

0:36.1

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:38.4

Part of what we try to do on this show is focus attention on the real dangers Donald

0:42.4

Trump presents.

0:43.8

The action he takes that threaten democracy and the rule of law as opposed to just his routine,

0:49.4

dishonesty, mismatagement, and incompetence.

0:52.6

Well, one of the real alarms sounded and I'm afraid a lot of people might have missed

0:57.1

it, are failed to distinguish it as something really serious among all the other outrage

1:02.1

in chaos.

1:03.1

It was the news that Trump has been trying to punish Jeff Bezos for the Washington Post's

1:09.2

coverage of his administration.

1:11.7

Here's what we know.

1:12.8

The Washington Post itself reported at the end of last week that Trump has been pressing

1:17.3

the U.S. Postmaster General, Megan Brennan, to double the rates that the Post Office charges

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