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🗓️ 4 May 2021
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May 2, 2021
Examining the FBI raid of Rudy GIiuliani and what it means.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Courtside, everyone, a discussion of legal issues. I hope everyone's been having a good |
0:05.3 | weekend, enjoying the beautiful weather. I feel like we're finally turning a corner thanks to modern |
0:11.1 | science and a government that finally works. Today, I want to speak about one thing, which is the fate of |
0:18.6 | Rudy Giuliani. Because from America's mayor to America's crazy uncle to now America's most wanted, Rudy |
0:27.2 | Giuliani has truly done it all. |
0:30.4 | And today, as I think many of you know, there have been news reports saying that Rudy's |
0:35.1 | offices home, I think, have been searched pursuant to federal |
0:40.2 | warrants. And, you know, just to back up for a second, law enforcement investigations |
0:45.4 | begin when they, some officer, has credible evidence that a crime's been committed, that |
0:51.5 | someone's violated a law. And, you know, with respect to those around Donald Trump, |
0:57.0 | that could mean any number of different things. |
1:00.0 | And we don't know for sure what it means with Rudy Giuliani, |
1:04.0 | but we do have some reporting that at least part of the investigation |
1:09.0 | deals with something called FARA, the Foreign Agent Registration Act. |
1:12.6 | Now, this is not a minor thing. I know that you've already seen some people on Fox and other things trying to say this is some process, minor, statute or something like that. |
1:22.6 | This is a big deal law. What it does is it says that if you're working for a foreign government, |
1:28.4 | you've got to register and you've got to make be transparent about it for the most important |
1:32.9 | of reasons because we don't want to have our processes being corrupted by people who are |
1:38.9 | working for foreign powers, possibly our enemies, without transparency. There's nothing wrong with defending, you know, |
1:46.9 | in court or whatever, a foreign government. The question is just you just have to be transparent about it. |
1:53.4 | And that's what the FARA that law is all about. Now, the allegations, according to the New York Times, |
1:59.7 | is that Rudy Giuliani sought to remove our ambassador, the United, according to the New York Times, is that Rudy Giuliani sought to remove |
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