Episode 17: On the Firing of Jim Comey

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Yes Episode 16 just dropped yesterday, but given the firing of Jim Comey we felt duty bound to get back to the microphones ASAP. And so here you will find Bobby and Steve reviewing and debating the legal and policy backdrop to, and fallout, from yesterday's shocking news. Tune in for a discussion that covers the power of the president to appoint and remove the FBI Director, the implications of the firing for a variety of ongoing investigations, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode number 17 already of the National Security Law Podcast brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:11.6	Today is Wednesday, May 10th, and I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:15.3	And I'm Steve Lottis. Bobby, weren't we just here?
0:17.8	I think we literally just uploaded our last episode yesterday.
0:21.6	Steve, why are we back so suddenly?
0:23.6	Because we're prescient.
0:25.6	No, we really weren't prescient.
0:27.6	We actually talked about Jim Comey in yesterday's episode, which all, you know, 37 of you
0:32.6	have listened to.
0:33.6	I'm not really sure we saw this coming.
0:36.6	No, no. Big surprise for all of us, of course.
0:38.8	Everyone listening to this, I'm sure already knows.
0:40.8	Jim Cummys been fired by President Trump.
0:42.8	It's not possible that there's someone who listens to our podcast who is unaware of the news
0:47.3	or the reason why we decide to sit down and have this emergency session.
0:50.3	You know, I don't know if my mom was watching the news last night.
0:53.3	Maybe this will come as a surprise to her.
0:55.2	All right. Well, hey, Bobby's mom. So Bobby, we wanted to just sort of get back on the air,
1:00.3	mostly because I think we both thought it would be useful for us, if nothing else, to talk through
1:06.0	the news, to talk through our reaction to it, to talk through what it means, to talk through
1:10.7	the implications.
1:11.6	You know, are there legal implications? What are some of the more obvious political implications?
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