Hello from Austin. Welcome to Episode 175 of the National Security Law Podcast. We're brought to you by the Strauss Center, University of Texas. Today is Thursday, July 30th, 2020, though almost not much longer.

We're recording this kind of late. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Loddick. Bobby, today's been quite a month.

Today's been, even by the standards of this season of the show, and by show, I mean, the Trump

show, this has been a doozy.

Wow.

The showrunners really started off strong today with a long-expected and speculated about,

but still dramatic plot point revelation where they had Trump come out and explicitly suggest

that we just might need to quote delay the election.

We will pile on.

We have some thoughts.

We have thoughts to share.

That's not the only slice of Trump landia for us tonight.

We've got a follow up from last week.

Michael Cohen does indeed get to both stay home and write books. No surprise there. What else? Another recurring guest, Mike Flynn. Not so fast on the end of that case, says the D.C. Circuit will touch base with Mike Flynn. We're going to go back to

Portland. As predicted here first, the DC Circuit is going on bonk. I'm shocked. Aren't you shocked?

I'm shocked and shocked and the gambling in Casablanca. I know. We've got to, we'll go back to

Portland to kind of follow up on last week's commentary and at least air some of the recent developments.

And then a story late breaking tonight in the Washington Post from our friend Shane Harris

that at least indirectly touches on you, Steve, and the DHS Office of Intelligence

and Analysis, they've got thoughts and they're sharing them and they're mentioning people. We'll

talk about what that's all about. And then maybe some actual national security law. We've got

another theme of recent weeks. The Hassun case, we finally actually got a spelled out decision

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