Note from Elie 6/20: The President’s Constitutional Power to Do Stupid Things

The Counsel

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Politics, News

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst. For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the year 2000.
0:02.0	Everyone, everywhere is having fun, except me.
0:06.0	On BBC Eye Player.
0:08.0	I worry you're growing up too fast.
0:10.0	Yeah, we can't be your little duck here forever, can I?
0:13.0	Inspired by a true story.
0:15.0	You walk out this house a boy, one day you'll come back.
0:17.0	When you do, you will be a man.
0:20.0	Oh, and hard your breath.
0:21.5	What it feels like for a girl. I wish I could look like you. Baby, you can. Why don't you?
0:27.0	Watch on BBC Eye Player.
0:31.5	Hey, everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday. Before we get to this week's podcast, I have an exciting announcement. For me,
0:38.7	exciting. I hope it's exciting for you all too. My next book is available now for pre-order.
0:45.7	It comes out in September. It is called When You Come at the King, Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the
0:50.8	President from Nixon to Trump. If you like this podcast, I hope you do because
0:55.6	you are choosing to listen to it, you're going to love this book. It's actually a little different
0:59.2	than what we do on the podcast. What I did in this book is I talked to over 30, I think over
1:03.5	35 people who were directly involved in the biggest prosecutions of the modern era, from Watergate
1:10.1	to Iran-Contra, to Clinton and
1:12.6	Ken Starr, on through Pat Fitzgerald and Scooter Libby, and all the more recent ones that we've
1:17.9	talked about, Mueller and Durham, the Hunter Biden case, the Joe Biden documents case, and of course
1:23.3	Jack Smith. The insight, the firsthand perspective I got from these people is remarkable. I couldn't
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