With a Constitutional crisis afoot, we continue our discussion of impeachment with Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein. And, Ralph welcomes Middle East policy expert, Hassan El-Tayyab, to fill us in on what’s going on with the humanitarian tragedy that is the war in Yemen.
Constitutional Crisis
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
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🗓️ 12 October 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Bruce Fein is a Constitutional scholar, who was Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan. Mr. Fein has been a visiting Fellow for Constitutional Studies at the Heritage Foundation and an adjunct scholar at American Enterprise Institute. He has advised numerous countries on constitutional reform, including South Africa, Hungary and Russia. He is author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire: Before the Fall.
“It’s not just the conservatives who are in my judgment derelict here. I think the entire political class now has conceded that we no longer have a Constitutional dispensation. Both parties, if their guy is in the White House, say ‘do whatever you want to do.’”
Bruce Fein, attorney and Constitutional scholar
Hassan El-Tayyab is the lead lobbyist on Middle East policy for the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Previously, he was co-director of the national advocacy group Just Foreign Policy, where he led their lobbying work to advance a more progressive foreign policy in the Middle East and Latin America. He played a major role in the successful passage of the War Powers Resolution to end US military aid to the Saudi-UAE coalition’s war in Yemen.
“As far as what people can do: they need to reach out to their legislators. Their Rep and their two Senators need to hear from you. And let them know that you don’t want the U.S. to be participating in the Yemen War any longer.”
Hassan El-Tayyab, lead lobbyist on Middle East policy for the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. |
| 0:18.6 | Hello David, how you doing today? |
| 0:20.6 | Very good. We have an important show today. We have an important show. |
| 0:24.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, we have most of our shows are very important. |
| 0:28.0 | I would say all of our shows are very important, but there's a lot of stuff going on and this is the place you come to sort it out. We also have the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph. Hello everybody. When do we ever not have an important show? That's what I was trying to say. |
| 0:43.8 | I was talking about we have tickets to go see the Rolling Stones. |
| 0:48.2 | That's a, I wasn't talking about that show. |
| 0:50.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.6 | No, no, that's a whole different thing on this show today we continue to discuss the soap opera that is the impeachment inquiry into president Donald Trump now just to provide some context here as new developments continue to unfold almost on an |
| 1:06.1 | hourly basis you might have guessed a few things have happened since we last left you |
| 1:10.4 | the president has publicly called on China to investigate Joe Biden. |
| 1:15.0 | China should start an investigation into the Biden. |
| 1:19.0 | Right there on the White House lawn, |
| 1:21.0 | in an apparent attempt to normalize his behavior by doing it over and over again out in the open. |
| 1:26.3 | Text messages between diplomats have emerged that suggest that there was in fact a quid pro quo, |
| 1:31.5 | that an investigation into the Bideniddens and the 2016 election take |
| 1:35.2 | place before a meeting between Ukrainian President Zelensky and Donald Trump would be scheduled. |
| 1:40.5 | Also there are reports of a second whistleblower coming forward. |
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