Confirmation Hearing Blitz with No Bull
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
The day before last week's inauguration of President Joe Biden, four of the Biden administration's core national security nominees appeared before various Senate committees for their confirmation hearings. Avril Haines, Biden's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Alejandro Mayorkas, the nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; retired general Lloyd Austin, Biden's nominee to head the Defense Department, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee; and Antony Blinken, Biden's nominee for Secretary of State, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The hearings included a whole lot of performative partisan flattery and outrage, but they also provided a snapshot of the Biden administration's national security priorities. We cut out all of the nonsense, all of the unnecessary information and the duplicative questions to leave you only the most interesting questions and answers.
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| 0:29.0 | I'd ask you to please stand and raise your right hand. |
| 0:37.0 | Do you swear the testimony you will give before this committee will be the truth, |
| 0:41.0 | the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you guys. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast January 25th, 2021. |
| 0:51.0 | The day before last week's inauguration of President Joe Biden, |
| 0:55.0 | before of the Biden administration's core national security nominees |
| 0:59.0 | appeared before various Senate committees for their confirmation hearings. |
| 1:05.0 | On January 19th, Avril Haynes, Biden's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, |
| 1:11.0 | appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Alejandro Mayorkas, |
| 1:16.0 | the nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, |
| 1:19.0 | appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, |
| 1:23.0 | retired general Lloyd Austin, Biden's nominee to head the Defense Department, |
| 1:29.0 | appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Anthony Blinken, |
| 1:34.0 | his nominee for Secretary of State, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
| 1:40.0 | The hearings included a whole lot of performative partisan flattery and outrage, |
| 1:46.0 | but they also provided a snapshot of the Biden administration's national security priorities, |
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