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The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 18: Disclosing Secrets to the Russians Makes Me WannaCry

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The guys came back to the office tonight for a rare evening recording session, inspired by a combination of hot-off-the-presses news about the president talking out of turn to the Russians, lack of interest in the Wizards-Celtics game, and a general inability to find another time to record this week.  And what's in it for you?  An extended discussion of the significance of the report earlier this evening to the effect that President Trump may have shared highly-sensitive classified information with his Russian guests in the Oval Office last week, some follow-up discussion of the Comey firing (with an emphasis on the situation of Rod Rosenstein), an update on the litigation challenging the executive order on immigration, a review of the problems associated with the rapidly-spreading WannaCry ransomware, an attempt by Bobby to steer the conversation away from Spurs-Warriors Game 1 in favor of Spurs-Rockets Game 6 (quickly rebuffed by Steve), and a trivia question for those who manage to hang on until the end.  Be sure to share the word about this podcast if you are enjoying it; give us a review on iTunes and elsewhere, and join the conversation at @nslpodcast, @steve_vladeck, and @bobbychesney!  And be sure to come back next week, when we plan to have...wait for it...music!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 18 of the National Security Law podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.

0:09.1

Today is Monday, May 15th in the evening.

0:12.3

And I'm Bobby Chesney.

0:13.6

And I'm Steve Vladic and Bobby, I want to cry.

0:16.8

I want a crypt.

0:18.5

It's been a busy day and we thought that we just couldn't wait until tomorrow.

0:23.4

Yeah, although I think...

0:23.9

So it's funny, at the end of last week's episode, we joked about whether we would need an emergency episode

0:28.4

between last week's emergency episode and our regularly scheduled episode for this week.

0:32.0

I feel like the word.

0:32.4

We're close enough to the next one.

0:34.1

We probably would have done it Tuesday anyways? That's probably true, but I guess our students who are waiting for us to grade their counterterrorism law exams right now,

0:41.8

let me just, I'll give them an update, right?

0:43.5

If you're scoring at home.

0:45.2

Bobby has completed his grading, I can say.

0:48.0

Thank you.

0:48.5

And Steve is halfway through his.

0:50.6

So I anticipate that barring further national security crises between now and,

0:55.7

let's say, the end of the day tomorrow, Bobby, right? We'll have those grades up soon.

0:58.8

So it'll be a few days.

1:02.2

So, Bobby, why are we, I mean, it's 9-10 central time Monday night. What the heck are we doing in my office?

1:09.9

You know, we obviously don't have hobbies.

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