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The DSR Network

If It's Not Treason Then What Is It?

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As Deep State Radio's resident Constitutional scholar (and Associate Dean of Georgetown Law School) Rosa Brooks explains, the legal threshold for designating behavior as treasonous is quite narrow. But as she also points out, it would be up to Congress to define what was unacceptable in an impeachment hearing. As evidence mounts that the Trump campaign was deeply entwined with Russia and the Trump Administration has been taking a straight Kremlin line on everything, we have clearly crossed the "this is not OK" threshold and we may be headed for something much more serious than that. Rosa, Kori Schake, Evelyn Farkas and David Rothkopf discuss this issue and the state of America's alliances with a NATO Summit and a potential meeting in Europe with Vladimir Putin loom in the next several weeks. Tune in.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio. I am David Rothkoff. I am your

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host. I am David Rothkoff. I am your host. I am very happily in the United States of America. In London, England from double I double S is Cori Shockey. In Spain I think someplace in Spain overlooking the

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Mediterranean is Rosa Brooks and in Washington DC because somebody's got to be

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holding down the fort is Evelyn Farkas of the Atlantic Council.

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Welcome, guys. We had a kind of heavy discussion the last time around about the language we're using to describe the situation we're in in

1:26.7

the United States of America right now both in terms of what's going on in terms of our borders, how we're treating our allies,

1:35.8

how we're treating our enemies, the values that the administration is embracing, the values

1:41.4

that the Republican Party is embracing the values that the Republican Party is embracing and the state of the discourse in this country.

1:48.6

I'd like to continue the discussion in a way by talking about another set of words that I hear a lot about

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where it may not be as clear cut a case.

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And it's not just semantics, but you know in the past few days there's been more

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revelations that members of the Trump campaign have systematically reached out during the course of the campaign to consider

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and potentially embrace offers of assistance from Russians and people affiliated with the Russian government.

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