Congress's Last Stand: Mueller's Testimony

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

When Robert Mueller testifies on July 17th, the stakes for the House are enormous. The two committees must use the opportunity to make the American people understand the gravity of the offenses and misconduct laid out in the Report, but that is no easy task. How should they approach it in broad strokes? How do they get meaningful answers, respectfully, from Robert Mueller? Harry Litman is joined by Andrew McCabe, Ron Klain, Tim Lynch, and Matt Miller for a discussion in front of a live audience. You can also watch video of the live discussion at c-span.org. This episode was sponsored by Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and The American Constitution Society. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Talking Feds, a prosecutor's round table that brings together prominent
0:12.3	former federal officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the day.
0:19.0	I'm Harry Littman.
0:20.0	I'm a former United States attorney and deputy assistant attorney general and a current
0:24.7	Washington Post columnist.
0:27.2	We're here in Washington DC live to take a series of podcast episodes just blocks from
0:34.0	the Capitol dome.
0:35.8	All this thanks to our gracious host here at Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional
0:41.6	Advocacy and Protection and for this episode as well, the American Constitutional Society,
0:49.9	the leading progressive organization and network with over 200 lawyer and student chapters
0:56.7	nationwide.
0:59.0	All this week we're talking about what happens after Mueller.
1:03.1	What are the challenges and prospects for our democratic institutions?
1:07.7	Today we're focused on what happens the day of Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress.
1:15.4	Prior to the announcement of Mueller's testimony, the House's effort to bring the report to
1:20.2	life seemed to be getting nowhere and near checkmated.
1:24.8	13 weeks had passed and the House hadn't succeeded in having a single fact witness testify
1:30.4	publicly.
1:32.2	Stymied repeatedly by the administration's reflexive and ultra-aggressive policy of interposing
1:39.8	dubious defenses that left Congress having to choose between caving and litigating the
1:45.8	latter involving significant time.
1:49.0	But Mueller is a law-biter and he got a lawful subpoena and agreed to testify notwithstanding
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