Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 5
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Michael Feinberg, Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus and Lawfare Contributing Editor James Pearce to discuss the arrest of a suspect in the attempted bombing on Jan. 6, 2021, a hearing in NPR’s lawsuit over the Trump administration cutting its funding, where the prosecutions of Letitia James and James Comey stand, and more.You can find information on legal challenges to Trump administration actions here. And check out Lawfare’s new homepage on the litigation, new Bluesky account, and new WITOAD merch.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.
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| 0:00.0 | Nearly every news alert in 2025 has raised questions, some old, some new, about the law and national security. |
| 0:07.5 | And now you get the chance to ask Lawfare directly. It's time for our annual Ask Us Anything Mailbag podcast, an opportunity for you to ask Lawfare this year's most burning questions. |
| 0:18.3 | You can submit your question by leaving a voicemail at 202-643-8474. Or by sending a |
| 0:27.7 | recording of yourself asking your question to Ask Us Anything Lawfare at gmail.com by December 16th. |
| 0:37.2 | It's the Lawfare podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Natalie Orpud, Lawfare Executive Editor, with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bauer, Michael |
| 0:45.2 | Feinberg, Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff, and Eric Columbus, and contributing editor James |
| 0:51.1 | Pierce. |
| 0:52.1 | In the December 5th episode of the trials of the Trump administration, |
| 0:56.0 | we discussed the arrest of a suspect in the attempted bombing on January 6, 2021, a hearing in NPR's |
| 1:02.8 | lawsuit over the Trump administration's cutting its funding, where the prosecutions of Letitia James |
| 1:08.1 | and James Comey stand stand and so much more. |
| 1:21.6 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Lawfare Live. |
| 1:25.0 | I am Natalie Orpett, executive editor here at Lawfare. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm joined today by my colleagues, senior editors, Roger Parloff, |
| 1:38.4 | Eric Columbus, Molly Roberts, Anna Bauer, who will appear on screen shortly, Mike Feinberg, |
| 1:46.5 | and our contributing editor James Pierce. So a quick reminder as a matter of business, if you have questions that you would like to ask us, which we will get to at the end of our comments, please put them |
| 1:52.0 | in the Q&A section of the chat if you are on Riverside. And if you don't see a Q&A section, |
| 1:58.2 | it's because you're on YouTube watching us there. And you should go to lawfirmedia.org slash support and become a material supporter, so you too can ask us questions. |
| 2:08.9 | So we are, per usual, going to do a run through of all of the events over the past week in legal challenges and litigation relating to Trump |
| 2:19.5 | administration executive actions. And I'm going to start with what I think is the most |
| 2:24.3 | breaking of the news from yesterday, which is that after nearly five years of pure mystery |
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