Episode 225: Appetite for Obstruction

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Hello, and welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast, with co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck! In this episode, we dig into the latest filings in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents/presidential records litigation, emphasizing the mounting reasons to believe that the first charges we might see in relation to all of this will involve not the underlying questions about unlawful retention of presidential records or national defense information, but "investigative offenses" such as obstruction of justice. We also touch on "Nashiri Day," explaining what that anniversary signifies, as well as a bit on the recent airstrikes conducted by US forces in Syria--against weapons bunkers associated with an Iran-backed group that had earlier launched rockets at a US facility in Syria.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 225 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:15.0	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:18.8	It's Wednesday night, August 31st, 2022.
0:21.7	It's actually raining here in Austin.
0:24.7	I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:26.2	I'm Steve Lodick.
0:27.1	Fortunately, we were recording this inside.
0:29.9	Unlike our usual outdoors, the practices.
0:32.2	I'm sure many listeners are like, why?
0:34.0	So it's raining?
0:34.7	So what?
0:35.0	Hey, we haven't had a lot of rain this summer.
0:36.7	This is a big deal for
0:37.5	us yeah the weather here has been kind of oh how do i say warm droughty droughty droughty
0:43.6	arid hey i've appreciated the impact on mosquitoes that the drought brings but uh did not appreciate
0:50.1	the impact on my trees yeah i was going to say like you, like, you know, no bugs, but also no grass.
0:54.6	It's an interesting trade-off.
0:56.1	Yes, yes.
0:57.8	So, hey, we've got a lot more to talk about coming out of Mar-a-Lago.
1:04.5	I just want to apologize to our listeners.
1:07.5	Like, you know, this is...
1:13.7	The absence of more serious content?
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