Congress, Congress, and More Congress with Margaret Taylor and Molly Reynolds
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The action has shifted to Congress, the Mueller report is filed, and a blizzard of subpoena fights between the White House and various congressional committees is already underway. The president has sued a committee chairman, there's a question about whether Don McGahn will testify or whether the White House will exert executive privilege over it, and looming over it all is the question of how congressional Democrats and Republicans are thinking about impeachment.
Molly Reynolds and Margaret Taylor joined Benjamin Wittes in the jungle studio to focus on all things Congress. They talked about subpoenas, lawsuits, impeachment, and even the much-forgotten 'inherent contempt' power of Congress.
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| 0:49.9 | There is the possibility of a sufficient delay. |
| 0:52.3 | I mean, we only have 18 months until the next election. |
| 0:56.9 | And if Trump can even put off that information becoming public, basically, which is sort |
| 1:01.8 | of how it would be if it went to a committee, if you can even put it off, you know, six |
| 1:06.0 | months or eight months, I think that's probably valuable to President Trump in his run-up |
| 1:11.1 | to 2020. |
| 1:12.1 | I mean, I think there's also this sense, you know, Donald Trump is very aggressive when |
| 1:16.3 | it comes to lawsuits and he's probably trying to maybe trying to signal to, for example, |
| 1:21.1 | their committees or other, you know, House Democrats who have this urge to do oversight. |
| 1:25.3 | They're like, hey, I'm going to make this as hard for you as I possibly can. |
| 1:29.8 | I'm Benjamin Withiss and this is the LawFair podcast April 27, 2019. |
| 1:36.7 | The action has shifted to Congress. |
| 1:39.8 | The Mueller report is filed and a blizzard of subpoena fights between the White House |
| 1:45.7 | and various congressional committees is already underway. |
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