Justice, Fairness and McDonald's with Preet Bharara
Remade in America with Bassem Youssef
CAFE
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Preet Bharara is the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which made him one of the most powerful lawyers in America. Preet was the first Indian-American ever appointed U.S. Attorney in that district.
After being fired from that job by President Trump, Preet began hosting a podcast, “Stay Tuned with Preet,” on which he explores issues of justice and fairness with his guests. Preet is also a CNN commentator, teaches at NYU Law School, and is almost done with his first book.
Preet talks with Bassem about growing up in two cultures, prosecuting criminals and hosting a podcast, among many other topics. At the end of the episode, Bassem and Preet answer listener voicemails together.
If you have questions or comments for Bassem, tweet them to him at @Byoussef with the hashtag #askbassem, email remade@cafe.com, or call 785-422-7736 (785-4-BASSEM) and leave a voicemail.
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| 0:00.0 | America is a nation built on democracy and the rule of law. |
| 0:08.0 | The people elect leaders, leaders make laws, and we all follow those laws. It's pretty simple and it works well in a functioning |
| 0:15.8 | democracy. Today's guest, he knows a lot about how the law works and doesn't work in |
| 0:22.0 | America. |
| 0:23.5 | Now don't turn off the show when I tell you this, but he is the first guest on |
| 0:27.6 | remade in America, who is also a lawyer. |
| 0:31.5 | Until last year, Pete Barara was one of the most powerful lawyers. lawyer. of New York. He prosecuted Wall Street criminals, rooted out public corruption, and put |
| 0:45.9 | violent offenders in prison. |
| 0:48.8 | It's the best job that I could ever imagine. I can imagine another job for me and give me what I like to do and |
| 0:53.9 | you know whatever meager talents I have. |
| 0:55.9 | Preet put some pretty high profile bad guys in prison and shut down billion dollar |
| 1:00.6 | hedge funds in the process. |
| 1:03.1 | In fact Showtime, you know, the TV network loosely based the main character of their show |
| 1:08.0 | Billions on Prit. |
| 1:10.1 | On the show, people refer to U.S. attorneys as superheroes. |
| 1:14.3 | So why would he quit being a superhero? |
| 1:17.4 | He didn't. |
| 1:18.4 | He got fired by President Trump, along with 45 other U.S. attorneys all over the country, all of them appointed |
| 1:26.2 | by Barack Obama. |
| 1:28.2 | U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking for the resignation of 46 chief federal prosecutors left over from the Obama |
| 1:34.9 | administration. Of those on the chopping block, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet |
| 1:39.4 | Barara, whose office handles some of the most critical cases in the federal judicial system. |
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