“Not anything any of us ever expected to see in America"
Talking Feds
Harry Litman
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Trump continued to bend the political system to his will, but the courts and his own Dept of Justice pushed back. Alisyn Camerota, Norm Ornstein, & Jacob Weisberg join Harry to assess Trump’s checkered week. A series of federal courts temporarily froze some of Trump’s more brazen power grabs, and a cascade of DOJ prosecutors resigned rather than comply with a lawless order to dismiss well-supported charges. But Trump was able to push through cabinet nominees whose prospects had been in doubt.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, before we dive into today's episode, I want to tell you about something new we are |
| 0:05.3 | launching on Talking Fed's Substack. With the constant flood of executive orders and political |
| 0:11.0 | turmoil, one question keeps coming up. Is this actually legal? That's exactly what we will be |
| 0:18.3 | tackling in. Is it legal? A new substack live series from Talking Feds. |
| 0:24.4 | Every Wednesday at noon Eastern time, I'll go live with top legal and political experts or just on my own. |
| 0:32.1 | To break down the biggest legal issues in real time, what the law says, what precedent tells us, what we think |
| 0:39.8 | will actually happen, and what it all means. Join us at Talking Fed Substack, starting this Wednesday. |
| 0:48.7 | And just one more announcement about our next event in Talking San Diego that you won't want to miss. |
| 0:55.2 | On Friday, March 21st, we'll be welcoming the one and only Marine Dowd, |
| 1:00.6 | Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist for a conversation anchored in her new book, Notorious. |
| 1:07.7 | For tickets and more information on all Talking San Diego events, visit TalkingSandiego.net. |
| 1:20.3 | Welcome to Talking Fed's, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special |
| 1:28.9 | guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Harry Littman. Donald Trump continued to wage war on the government he's ostensibly leading, |
| 1:42.2 | but at weeks' end it looked as if he or his DOJ loyal servants |
| 1:46.7 | might have overplayed their hands. Trump notched two more wins in his cabinet confirmation spree, |
| 1:53.7 | as Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. squeaked through, thanks to his relentless |
| 1:59.6 | hardball tactics with individual senators. |
| 2:02.6 | That left only the ultra-controversial Cash Patel hanging in the balance. |
| 2:08.6 | But Trump took it on the chin in multiple federal district courts, which issued orders |
| 2:13.6 | blocking him from plowing ahead with a slew of lawless measures, many of which outright |
| 2:20.3 | disregarded Congress's constitutional authority to create federal agencies and control the purse strings. |
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