Lawfare Archive: Bob Bauer and A.B. Culvahouse on Defending the President
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🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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From October 7, 2017: Last month, Lawfare and Foreign Policy hosted an event on lawyering for the Trump presidency. Susan Hennessey spoke with former White House Counsels Bob Bauer, who served in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2011, and A.B. Culvahouse, who served in the Reagan administration from 1987 to 1989, in a lively discussion on providing legal support when your client is the president. They talked about the distinction between a president’s personal counsel and White House counsel, the challenges of defending a president during an investigation, and the quotidian aspects of the role of the White House Counsel.
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| 0:29.0 | I'm Jacob Schultz with an episode from LawFair Archive for August 29th, 2021. |
| 0:45.0 | There's been a lot of discussion, both in news outlets and on LawFair about |
| 0:50.0 | luring during the Biden administration, particularly in connection with the release of the new |
| 0:54.0 | conviction moratorium late last month. So I thought it might be nice to bring an episode |
| 0:59.0 | from the archive from October 2017, in which Susan Hennessy spoke with former White House |
| 1:05.0 | councils Bob Bauer, who served in the Obama administration from 2010, 2011, |
| 1:10.0 | an AB Cullville House who served in the Reagan administration from 1987 to 1989. |
| 1:16.0 | They had a lively discussion about providing legal support when your client is the president. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm Vanessa Sauner, and this is the LawFair podcast. |
| 1:28.0 | October 7th, 2017. Last month, LawFair had four policy hosted an event, |
| 1:33.0 | unlawyering for the Trump presidency. Susan Hennessy spoke with former White House councils Bob Bauer, |
| 1:38.0 | who served in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2011, |
| 1:42.0 | an AB Cullville House who served in the Reagan administration from 1987 to 1989, |
| 1:47.0 | in a lively discussion on providing legal support when your client is the president. |
| 1:52.0 | They talked about the distinction between a president's personal council and White House council. |
| 1:56.0 | The challenges of defending a president during an investigation, |
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