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Stay Tuned with Preet

Free and Fair Elections (with Ellen Weintraub)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned with Preet, “Free and Fair Elections,” Preet speaks with former homeland security and counterterrorism advisors to the president Ken Wainstein and Lisa Monaco about their new CAFE podcast, United Security, which debuts on Friday, July 10th. Then, Federal Election Commission (FEC) Commissioner Ellen Weintraub joins Preet to discuss the largest risks of the 2020 presidential election, the challenging dynamics of the FEC, and why we shouldn’t expect immediate results on election night. For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/free-and-fair-elections-with-ellen-weintraub/ To receive a link to listen to the first episode of the United Security podcast for free, sign up at cafe.com/united-security. To listen to Stay Tuned bonus content, become a member of CAFE Insider at: CAFE.com/Insider Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis of politically charged legal news, updates from Preet, and analysis from Elie Honig, at: CAFE.com/brief And if you haven’t already, listen to a sample from this week’s episode of the CAFE Insider podcast for free at CAFE.com or in the Stay Tuned feed. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.1

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0:16.7

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0:20.9

inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at

0:26.9

Slack.com slash DHQ. From Cafe,

0:56.9

welcome to stay tuned. I'm Priperara. Once you undermine that basic faith that people

1:04.7

have in their democratic institutions, that things are going to be done in a regular order

1:09.4

and the votes will be counted properly and they'll be counted accurately and people will

1:13.9

have access to exercise their choices in a free and fair manner. When you undermine

1:20.2

the trust in that system, it is very hard to build back up. So, I really feel that this

1:26.5

is a very frot time for our democracy and I feel an obligation to stand up for truth

1:34.6

and facts and to make sure that people understand what's real and what's not.

1:43.2

That's Ellen Wyntraugh. She's a Commissioner on the US Federal Election Commission, the

1:47.2

FEC, where she served since 2002. This week, we diverge a bit from the usual format of

1:53.2

stay tuned to bring you a special segment. Before turning to my conversation with FEC Commissioner

1:57.9

Ellen Wyntraugh, I'm joined by my friends, Lisa Monaco and Ken Waynestein. Lisa and Ken

2:02.7

have served at the highest levels of government and their career paths are strikingly similar.

2:07.3

Both are alums of the DCEU's attorney's office, both headed the DOJ's National Security

2:11.3

Division, both were chief of staff to then FBI director Bob Mueller, and both served as

2:15.8

assistant to the president on Homeland Security and counterterrorism. They joined me today because

2:20.3

they now add another impressive credential to their sterling resume, co-host of CAFE's

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