Emergency Edition: Insurrection at the Capitol
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol following a rally at which the president spoke. Congressional efforts to count the electoral votes were suspended, and an armed standoff, in which at least one person was killed, ensued. To discuss the matter, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare managing editor Quinta Jurecic; Lawfare chief operating officer David Priess; Georgetown's Mary McCord, who used to run the National Security Division at the Justice Department; and Daniel Byman, a professor at Georgetown and Lawfare's foreign policy editor.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm Benjamin Whitteson. |
| 0:32.0 | This is the LawFair podcast January 7th, 2021. |
| 0:37.0 | It's been a long time since we've had a bonafide emergency podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | But boy, does today require one. |
| 0:46.2 | As you all know, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the capital today following a rally |
| 0:53.2 | to which the president spoke, congressional efforts to count the electoral votes were suspended |
| 1:00.8 | and an armed standoff in which at least one person was killed ensued. |
| 1:07.2 | We have an impromptu group of people to discuss the matter in the virtual jungle studio. |
| 1:14.1 | LawFair managing editor Quinta Jurexic, David Priest, our chief operating officer, George |
| 1:20.3 | Towns, Mary McCord, who used to run the national security division at the justice department |
| 1:26.9 | and Daniel Beymann of Georgetown, who is also LawFair's foreign policy editor. |
| 1:34.9 | Quinta, let's start with you. |
| 1:37.0 | Give us a summary to the best that we can discern of what happened today. |
| 1:44.4 | Sure. |
| 1:45.4 | So to begin with, I should say we're recording this around 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday. |
| 1:50.6 | I mentioned that because the situation has been pretty fluid. |
| 1:54.4 | But what the day so far has looked like is Congress, as was expected, assembled to count |
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