Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Jan. 30
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Senior Editor Eric Columbus sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts to discuss the FBI search of the election center in Fulton County, the arrest of protestors in Minnesota, including Don Lemon, a decision out of the 9th Circuit regarding temporary protected status for Venezuelans, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Eric Columbus, Lawfare Senior Editor, with Lawfare |
| 0:12.6 | Senior Editors Anna Bauer, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts. In the January 30th episode of |
| 0:19.6 | the Trials of the Trump administration, we discussed the FBI search of the election center in Fulton County, the arrests of protesters in Minnesota, including Don Lemon, the decision out of the Ninth Circuit regarding temporary protected status for Venezuelans and more. |
| 0:45.4 | And we're live. |
| 0:51.6 | It is January 30th, 2026th, and I am not Ben Wittes. |
| 0:59.0 | I am Eric Columbus, Lawfare Senior editor, because Ben is in Kyiv today. |
| 1:09.3 | I am joined by three of my fellow senior editors, Anna Bauer, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts. And in order to try to attain the gravitas that Ben carries with him effortlessly, |
| 1:18.0 | I have grown a beard. |
| 1:19.7 | So we'll see if that suffices. |
| 1:22.1 | We've got a lot to talk about this week because of January refuses to end. |
| 1:28.8 | This month has gone on for so long that, if you can believe it, when it started, |
| 1:34.2 | Nicolas Maduro was still running Venezuela. |
| 1:38.6 | So many things have happened in the past week. |
| 1:41.4 | The first, we are going to begin with a first item on Wednesday. The FBI |
| 1:48.4 | searched the Fulton County Election Office. Fulton County is basically Atlanta, Georgia, and is |
| 1:58.6 | the, believe, the home terrain of Anna Bauer. |
| 2:02.4 | And she will explain to us what this is all about. |
| 2:06.9 | Yeah, thanks for the setup, Eric. |
| 2:09.6 | It has been, it feels like this week alone, I've lived like five lifetimes, |
| 2:14.5 | but every week it does seem a little bit like that. So I guess that I should be |
| 2:19.3 | used to it at this point. So in Fulton County, yes, we had the FBI execute a search warrant |
| 2:26.4 | at the Fulton County Elections Warehouse, where at the time of the search, they were holding ballots, election data, things related to |
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