Lawfare Daily: National Security and the 2024 Election, Presidential Transitions
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🗓️ 2 November 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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This episode of “Lawfare Live: National Security and the 2024 Election,” was recorded on October 29 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings Elaine Kamarck, Visiting Fellow at Brookings and director of the Katzmann Initiative Katie Tenpas, and Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett about what occurs during a presidential transition, what went wrong in 2020, and how Harris and Trump have begun to prepare for the transition.
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| 0:47.0 | and a certain text message scandal. |
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| 1:11.6 | I'm confident that we're seeing career people throughout the government. Preparing transition memo is probably a lot like I saw in 2012. |
| 1:14.6 | Again, when you're in government, this is frankly your best opportunity to really make a detailed case for what you think the right policy should be. |
| 1:22.6 | It's the Lawfare podcast, National Security, and the 2024 election. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm Benjamin Wittes, Lawfair's editor-in-chief, with Lawfare Senior Editor-N-Chief, |
| 1:37.3 | Brookings Governance Studies Senior Fellow, Elaine K. Mark, |
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