Much Ado About McGahn?

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Elie Honig breaks down the decision by the Biden administration to allow former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before Congress about Donald Trump’s attempt to obstruct the Mueller investigation into Russian election interference in 2016. Join Elie every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Third Degree for a discussion of the urgent legal news making the headlines. Transcript, references and supplemental materials are available on the CAFE website: cafe.com/third-degree-podcast/much-ado-about-mcgahn/ Third Degree is brought to you by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio and Music Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producer: Noa Azulai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.0	Beginning the week of May 24th, the third degree feed, this feed where you're listening
0:40.2	now, will feature audio of my weekly notes to the cafe community where I analyze news
0:45.3	at the intersection of law and politics.
0:47.8	We'll be dialing back the current Monday, Wednesday, Friday format a bit because we're
0:51.9	turning our attention to a brand new podcast. I'm going to tell
0:55.7	you now this thing will blow your mind when you hear it. I don't want to say too much at the moment,
1:00.4	but it draws on my experience as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.
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1:14.5	have to Letters atcafe.com. From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is third
1:21.2	degree. I'm Ellie Honig. Don McGahn is back, or at least he's back in the news.
1:41.1	I'm sure he doesn't want to be.
1:42.6	Certainly Donald Trump and Bill Barr and others
1:45.0	don't want him to be. But to the credit of House Democrats, only very belated and partial credit,
1:51.0	as we'll get into, they stuck to it. McGahn, you'll probably recall, was White House counsel
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