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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Midweek edition of Legal AF, the top legal podcast, providing analysis |
0:08.2 | of the most consequential developments at the intersection of law and politics with |
0:12.7 | your regular team of Midweek anchors, Michael Popak and Karen Friedman Agnifala. |
0:18.3 | We have a special crossover edition, Karen of Legal AF, because we're joined for our |
0:23.2 | first segment by Anthony Davis, journalist, podcast host and broadcaster, and he's the |
0:28.7 | host of Five Minute News and the Weekend Show on the Midest Media Network. |
0:32.6 | He's unvarnished. |
0:33.8 | He's unbiased, and he's here with us today to talk about our first topic. |
0:38.4 | Our first topic, speaking of first topics, the Biden administration and its State Department |
0:43.7 | has made a decision to seek immunity for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who's also |
0:49.3 | known as MBS, in a suit brought by the widow of journalist and US citizen Jamal Khashoggi |
0:55.4 | of the Washington Post, who was brutally ambushed, tortured, killed and dismembered in 2018 |
1:02.3 | in Istanbul at the Saudi consulate. |
1:05.0 | According to the US intelligence community, that was done by order of MBS. |
1:10.1 | So why did the Biden administration weigh in and argue for immunity? |
1:14.3 | And what does it mean internationally to our global standing as a defender of human rights? |
1:18.9 | Anthony Davis will join us for this discussion. |
1:21.4 | And Karen and I will talk about the revelation just yesterday of a secret trial that was |
1:27.4 | conducted last December, but didn't get disclosed until yesterday, in which a New York State |
1:33.2 | Supreme Court judge, Judge Mershaw, found the Trump organization in criminal contempt, |
1:39.0 | even before the Trump organization trial and conviction on 17 felony counts, including |
1:44.1 | tax evasion, even began. |
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