Episode 23: She Could Be the Ruckelshaus to Rosenstein’s Richardson

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come up with a tongue-twister of a title while exploring the legal fallout from the Comey testimony last week, including discussions of (1) whether Comey's actions were illegal (hint: they weren't), (2) whether executive privilege attached to his conversations with Donald Trump (hint: not really), and (3) what would it look like if the president decides to try to fire Bob Mueller--or even abolish the office of the special counsel. Your hosts also find time to talk about the recent arrest of two Hezbollah operatives inside the United States (with commentary on the role the material support statute plays in such cases), a recent airstrike in Somalia that DOD says took place under color of the recent policy decision to categorize Somalia as an area of active combat operations, a new bill from the House Armed Services Committee that would require DOD to give notice to HASC and SASC when conducting certain offensive (or active defense) cyber operations, and--of course--the latest twists and turns in the ever-more-complex Travel Ban litigation. Tune in, give us a review on iTunes and elsewhere, and spread the word to others!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 23 of the National Security Law Podcasts, brought to you by Robert
0:16.1	Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:18.3	I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:19.6	And I'm Steve Lottick, and Bobby, the NBA season is over,
0:22.8	and I don't know what to do with myself. Well, you should be celebrating the success of Texas X,
0:28.2	Kevin Durant, who had a pretty magnificent journey to his first title. So we're off Kauai,
0:34.5	and now we're on to Kevin Durant. I'm happy to return to Kauai as soon as they get back into the finals.
0:39.4	It could be a while.
0:40.0	Or at least until preseason gets started.
0:41.4	I was going to say, if we're waiting for the NBA finals, Bob, you could be waiting
0:43.3	a long time.
0:44.1	Oh, boy.
0:44.7	I think the offseason for the NBA is going to be Antonio, but they've got some salary cap issues. They need old Powell Gasol not to pick up his option. I'm just shaking my head over here. Yeah, you're not
0:59.5	seeing that happening? I'm just switching to baseball mode where the only thing I can say about the
1:04.2	Mets is if they somehow win tonight and tomorrow, they'll have a better record than the Cubs. Hey,
1:08.5	you know, there's some pitching hope. Stephen Mats is back. You looked good the other day.
1:12.4	And the worst part is, it's not just that the Mets are underachieving and having a terrible year,
1:17.5	is that the nationals look other than their bullpen, pretty unstoppable.
1:22.2	And so, of course, we have to deal with all these insufferable nationals fans.
1:25.3	You know, you could focus on the Astros. They're sure looking good.
1:28.1	The Astros.
1:29.1	The Astros.
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