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The Mona Charen Show

Look Who's Claiming to Care about Norms Now

The Mona Charen Show

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Law professor and AEI scholar Adam White joins the show to answer legal questions about Trump's trials. The panel then discusses whether prosecuting a former (future?) president is wise or necessary. And in our Highlights and Lowlights segment, Adam celebrates the arrival of a new monograph about director Whit Stillman, whose films include ‘Metropolitan’ and ‘The Last Days of Disco.’

highlights/lowlights:

Adam's: https://firefliespress.com/Whit_Stillman

Linda's: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/nyregion/march-on-washington-harlem.html

Bill's: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/end-china-economic-miracle-beijing-washington

Damon's: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/trump-disqualified-president-14th-amendment/675163/

Mona's: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/29/free-trade-common-enemy-congress/









Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Begg to Differ, the Bullworks weekly round table discussion featuring civil

0:15.0

conversation across the political spectrum.

0:18.0

We range from center left to center right.

0:20.6

I'm Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork and I'm joined

0:24.6

by our regulars, Bill Galston of the bookings institution of Wall Street Journal, Damon

0:29.8

Lincoln, who writes the sub-stack newsletter notes from the middle ground in Linda Chavez

0:34.5

of the Nascannon Center.

0:36.8

Our special guest this week is Adam White.

0:39.4

Adam is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor at the Antanan

0:44.9

Scalia School of Law.

0:48.2

Thank you one and all.

0:50.1

Adam, it is great to have you.

0:51.8

I'm going to rely on you for some legal analysis because we are really in a lot of

0:59.7

uncharted legal territory.

1:02.6

The former president this week was a reigned.

1:05.4

He pled not guilty in the Georgia case.

1:10.0

The January 6 case was scheduled.

1:13.5

It's going to start March 4th in Washington, D.C.

1:18.1

So there's a lot going on, many, many, many moving parts.

1:22.7

So I'm going to ask you to start by giving us a sense of that Georgia big monster case

1:31.4

because there's a lot of commentary that Fanny Willis, the DA, kind of bit off quite a

1:38.5

lot here.

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