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Talking Feds

Harry Litman

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After a blockbuster week in both Congress and the Southern District of New York, Feds Frank Figliuzzi, Barb McQuade, and Elie Honig join Harry to assess the damage against the President and his country lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Several witnesses gave forceful closed-door testimony about the President’s turning over Ukraine foreign policy to Giuliani, who apparently executed a scheme designed to further Trump’s political interests to the derogation of the country’s national security interests. None of the witnesses might have drawn as much blood, however, as Trump’s own acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who acknowledge before the camera that a quid pro quo had occurred. The Feds consider whether removal is now on the table, and also the repercussions of a potential indictment of Giuliani by his old office. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Producer Jenny here. Talking Feds is now six months old. We have big plans for this show.
0:06.8	But to make those plans possible, we need to understand what you like and what you'd like us to
0:12.2	improve about talking Feds. So head to our website, TalkingFeds.com and participate in our
0:18.8	listener survey. It only takes a few minutes and you can complete the survey anonymously. Thanks!
0:30.1	Welcome back to Talking Feds, our prosecutors round table that brings together prominent
0:38.0	former federal officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the day.
0:44.7	I'm Harry Littman. I'm a former United States attorney and deputy assistant attorney general
0:50.1	and a current Washington Post columnist. It's been a big week, a really big week. There's been
0:58.5	intense activity in Congress, intense activity in the southern district of New York,
1:03.3	and even a confluence of the two areas in the person of the ever bizarre and risen attorney to
1:10.5	the president Rudy Giuliani. We're going to talk about both areas and the repercussions of each
1:16.8	for the possible impeachment and even removal. A topic that seems to have come back at least on to
1:23.6	the far corner of the radar screen of President Trump. And we've got a cracker jack group of well-known
1:30.9	Feds in three different cities to discuss. So let's get right to it. Welcome back to the program,
1:36.6	Bard McQuade, former US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Frank Figley-UZ, former
1:42.6	assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, and Ali Honek, formerly an assistant US
1:49.2	attorney and supervisor in the southern district of New York, which of course Giuliani once
1:55.5	headed and where he now has to worry he will be indicted. Okay, we've had a week with several
2:03.7	different witnesses appearing on the hill giving long closed-door depositions. In theory, the depositions
2:11.6	have been confidential, but to nobody's surprise at least the headlines have leaked out after each
2:18.0	marathon session. Sessions by Fiona Hill, Gordon Saunland, Michael McKinley,
2:25.3	George Kent. Let's just go right in and start. Who this week did the most damage to the White House
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