Episode 154: This Podcast Is Not Just a “Piece of Metal”

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week on NSL Podcast, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The U.S. government's formal statement to Congress on the legal rationale for its airstrike against General Soleimani Trumplandia and law enforcement: the related, but distinct, issues associated with the use of the Pardon Power and the relationship between the President and federal prosecutors Does 18 USC 1114 apply extraterritorially? A D.C. Circuit panel holds that the federal statute making it a felony to murder a federal officer does not apply overseas. Judicial clerkships: Not a national security topic, but an important one for law students--and the rest of us--to ponder. The frivolity this week was supposed to be a review of the three most recent episodes of Picard. But no, Bobby had to go and ruin it by calling a halt to the recording right at the end in order to go attend some "meeting." Likely story! Alas, no Picard until next week. On the other hand, there's some spontaneous frivolity at the beginning of the show regarding the Astros scandal. So, you've got that going for you, which is nice!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello from Austin.
0:10.6	Welcome to episode 154 of the National Security Law Podcasts.
0:14.2	We're brought to you by the Robert Strauss Center, University of Texas.
0:17.3	It's Wednesday, February 19th, 2020.
0:20.3	I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Vladik.
0:21.6	Bobby, this podcast is more than just a piece of metal.
0:24.6	There's very little metal involved.
0:27.6	The microphones are metal.
0:28.6	The preamp is metal.
0:30.6	My computer has some metal in it.
0:31.6	There are metal plates in my head.
0:33.6	Are you saying that if the Astros cheat on this podcast, we shouldn't get too worked up about it?
0:39.7	Or we'll revoke the episode?
0:41.6	We'll delete the episode from the library.
0:43.3	We got immunity to provide this content in exchange for immunity.
0:47.2	Like 230 immunity?
0:48.7	Like the thing that DOJ is doing today?
0:50.9	Right now there are a lot of listeners who are like, what in the world are these guys talking about? So, I'm sorry. So Bobby and I, as I think you guys know, are both huge baseball
0:58.2	fans. I think we've both been fascinated in different ways by the Astros cheating scandal,
1:04.5	which I should say not Astros only, but certainly Astros principally so far, especially
1:10.3	cheating scandal.
1:11.9	And one of the things that has fascinating about the scandal, Bobby, is how preposterously,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.