Welcome to Talking Feds.

A roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests

for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Littmann.

Happy Easter.

Happy Passover to those who celebrate.

The trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minnesota police officer accused of killing George

Floyd, got underway this week and assumed a trial of the century's status.

Cable stations carried it gaviled a gavill with panels of expert analysts providing color

commentary on the courtroom action.

The trial was taking on a larger than life status as, among other things, a bellweather for

the Black Lives Matter movement that was spawned in the wake of Floyd's death and the state

of police community relations in the country.

The Biden administration has been working with the private sector to develop a version

of the so-called vaccine passport.

The idea became a target of crossfire from the governor of Florida and others in the

president in exile camp of Donald Trump, who see it as a form of deep state government

tyranny.

Representative Matt Gets found himself in legal quicksand as he offered a shifting series

of explanations and excuses in the wake of the revelation that he is under investigation

by the Department of Justice for sex trafficking offenses involving underage girls.

To size up and analyze these and other developments from the week that was, I'm joined by a banner

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