Episode 147: Sometimes You Get a Donald J. Trump

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast! This week we discuss: The two Articles of Impeachment The Inspector General's Report on the origins and conduct of the FBI's investigation into Russian election interference Amazon's lawsuit arguing that President Trump improperly influenced the DOD cloud contract bid selection The NDAA and the legal framework for DoD to conduct (and counter) grey zone information operations The investigative report on persistent overstatement of success in Afghanistan The attempt to Dzokhar Tsarnaev to make a claim for juror/prosecutor bias in the Bostom Marathon bombing case The decision to suspend the process of designating 1 or more Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations That, plus some frivolous commentary on football. Alas, no review (yet) of Mandalorian episode 5....

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin.
0:11.2	Welcome to episode 147 of the National Security Law Podcast.
0:14.8	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:17.9	It's lunchtime on Tuesday, December 10th, 2019, but we're working
0:21.7	through lunch because we care and it's cold and rainy outside. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm
0:26.6	Steve Lodick. We have articles of impeachment, apparently. We have, we got the articles. Get your
0:31.4	red hot articles impeachment. We got a two-for-one sale. Get your abuse of power and your, what is it? Is it, has it framed the
0:40.0	contempt of Congress, abuse of Congress, something about Congress, not cooperating with Congress.
0:47.6	It's bad. It's just a one-liner, bad. So we've got impeachment articles. We're going to talk about that in a moment.
0:55.6	And under the general heading of Trump landia, we'll also talk about the Inspector
0:59.1	General's report, which goes back to not the subject matter of these two articles of
1:03.9	impeachment, but rather the Mueller report subject matter.
1:07.4	And we will then pivot over to talk about the just arrived conference agreement on the National
1:15.0	Defense Authorization Act.
1:16.5	We'll have a lot more, I'm sure, next week.
1:18.8	Today we're going to highlight just one particular provision, section 1631.
1:24.4	And otherwise note that the Democrats largely caved.
1:27.8	Oh, so maybe we'll touch on a few other things as well.
1:31.5	1631 will be mercifully free from politics, I think, but it's really interesting from a legal
1:35.6	perspective and sort of a policy perspective.
1:38.5	We will note and talk a little bit about the report, this big investigative report,
1:43.8	about public representations
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