Lawfare Daily: Discussing the Kennedy, Patel, and Gabbard Confirmation Hearings

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

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In a live conversation on January 30, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and contributing editor Renee DiResta about the confirmation hearings of Kash Patel to be FBI director, Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy to be the health and human services secretary.

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0:32.3	I would be a little bit surprised if he didn't have at least three Republican defections.
0:37.1	The question is really just if he gets the fourth. least three Republican defections, the question is really
0:37.7	just to be against the fourth. It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare editor-in-chief,
0:44.6	here with Lawfair's senior editors, Anna Bauer, Quinta Jurecic and Roger Parloff, and Lawfare's newest
0:52.3	contributing editor, Renee Duresta.
0:57.3	I think the main issue that really tripped her up was weirdly her position on Edward Snowden.
1:04.7	And I say weird because, I mean, that has been one of the things that kind of puts her outside the
1:09.7	mainstream.
1:10.9	In a live recording on January 30th, we discussed the confirmation hearings of Tulsi Gabbard
1:18.1	to be Director of National Intelligence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the Health and Human
1:24.2	Services Secretary, and of course, Cash Patel to be the director of the FBI.
1:33.5	I'm old enough and naive enough that I still keep thinking that Lindsay Graham will oppose people
1:40.5	like this, but he never does.
1:53.6	Hey folks, welcome to Lawfare Live. It's January 30th, 20205. It's 4 p.m. And I am here with Lawfare Senior Editors, Quinta Jurecic, Roger Parloff.
2:01.7	We're going to be joined by Anna Bauer and Renee DeResta shortly.
2:09.6	We've got a bunch of hearings that took place today.
2:14.7	Before the Senate Intelligence Committee, we had Tulsi Gabbert, who is there as the
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