Congress, Congress, and More Congress
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The lengthy August recess has come to a close, and Congress is back. We have an impeachment investigation, we have an expanded scope of that investigation, we have confrontations between the executive branch and the legislature, and we have all of the other work Congress is supposed to do—like budget issues and a National Defense Authorization Act. Molly Reynolds and Margaret Taylor sat down with Benjamin Wittes to talk about it all. They talked about what we should call the impeachment "whatever-it-is" that the House Judiciary Committee is doing, who will be forced to testify, what courts are going to rule and when, and whether any normal congressional business will get done.
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| 0:29.0 | So the resolution itself doesn't sort of articulate the scope specifically, |
| 0:37.0 | but what it signals is that Nadler, presumably with speaker Pelosi's blessing, |
| 0:43.0 | is gathering in from the other committees information from other investigations. |
| 0:48.0 | And from reporting what we know that to include, |
| 0:51.0 | almost certainly is the potentially legal payments to stormy Daniels |
| 0:57.0 | and Caramac do go prior to the election, which of course Michael Cohen is going to jail |
| 1:05.0 | for his actions and connection with those activities. |
| 1:09.0 | And the president is individual one in those materials. |
| 1:13.0 | The second bucket of issues, it seems that they will be pulling in, |
| 1:17.0 | are other corruption related inquiries. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittess and this is the LawFair podcast September 10th, 2019. |
| 1:29.0 | Congress is back. You may have heard it. |
| 1:33.0 | The lengthy August recess has come to a close. |
| 1:37.0 | We have an impeachment investigation, not an inquiry and investigation. |
| 1:41.0 | We have an expanded scope of it. |
| 1:44.0 | We have confrontations between the executive branch and the legislature |
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