OA170: All Yodel, All the Time

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🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Well, it's another Rapid Response Friday, and we're here with everything you need to know about Yodel Mountain, including:

Breaking news regarding the wiretap of Michael Cohen's office several weeks before the search warrant issued and that the SDNY has at least one conversation between Cohen and Trump
Rudy Giuliani's rather bizarre appearance on Hannity, during which he admitted that President Trump is DD and paid Michael Cohen back for the $130,000 in hush money paid to Stormy Daniels -- directly contradicting the President's own earlier statement
Whether the repayment scheme alleged by Giuliani (a) makes sense and/or (b) constitutes money laundering
The "leaked questions" regarding Mueller's efforts to interview Trump
Trump's decision to replace Ty Cobb with Emmett Flood
The House Freedom Caucus's efforts to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; and, of course
Stormy Daniels's latest defamation lawsuit against President Trump

Our tip to journalists -- the question you want to ask is "What 'information' does Stormy Daniels have under Paragraph 2.1 of the Agreement?" Finally, we end with an all new Thomas (and next week's guest Andrew Seidel) Take The Bar Exam #74 that's not about real property, but is instead about the rules of evidence and whether a particular line of questioning is permissible. If you'd like to play along, just retweet our episode on Twitter or share it on Facebook along with your guess. We'll release the answer on next Tuesday's episode along with our favorite entry! Recent Appearances Andrew was just a guest on Episode 141 of the God Awful Movies podcast, reviewing "Cries of the Unborn." Check it out! Show Notes & Links

We first discussed how unhinged Rudy Giuliani is way back in Episode 13, "Hillary Clinton's Damned Emails" -- which is one of our all-time favorites.
This is the not-to-be-missed Laura Ingraham reaction video to Giuliani's Hannity appearance, which led to this set of tweets from the President.
The money-laundering statute is 18 U.S.C. § 1956.
This is the New York Times article we mentioned that breaks down the political implications of the switch from Cobb to Flood, and here is the list of questions Mueller wants to ask Trump.
Finally, this is the Stormy Daniels defamation complaint.

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0:00.0	Your honor, I object!
0:05.0	And why is that Mr. Ead?
0:07.0	Because it's devastating to my case!
0:19.0	I did you know, the murders, but as you're all so looking forward to this, I thought I'd be not guilty.
0:31.0	They say a man who represents himself as a fool for a client.
0:35.0	Well, with God as my witness, I am that fool!
0:45.0	Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film the never-ending store.
0:53.0	Welcome to Opening Arguments, the podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with a real-life lawyer.
0:59.0	This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Antertloras, LLC for Entertainment purposes,
1:05.0	is not intended as legal advice, and does not form an attorney-client relationship.
1:09.0	Don't take legal advice from a podcast.
1:13.0	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is Episode 170, I'm your host Thomas Smith, that over there is your other host, Andrew Torres. How you doing, sir?
1:26.0	I'm doing fine, I am good and relaxed, I mean it's nice to know that not a whole lot's happening in the world this week, so yeah, good break, good relaxing time.
1:40.0	Alright, I can't wait to get to today's episode. We're going to talk collective bargaining, we're going to talk, there's an update on the Miami Marlins offshore classification that I think is going to be really interesting, we're going to hear, I mean we got about half of that last time, we're going to hear the rest of that story, and then what is the definition of a third-party beneficiary specifically as it relates to MLB pitching, I think, is where that legal question is going.
2:09.0	So it's a baseball show, can't wait, okay, let's get to it.
2:13.0	So you're not aware of any context during the course of the election. How many times you have to answer this question?
2:35.0	Russia is a ruse, I know you have to get up and ask a question, so I'm putting Russia is a ruse. Well, I'm not a crook.
2:45.0	Biggest record scratcher. No, we're just kidding, it's where I up here on Yodel Mountain, we're so damn high on Yodel Mountain, we can't even breathe.
2:55.0	It's an incredible altitude never before reached by human exploration. I don't know how we're going to do this podcast with our oxygen masks, I guess you're just going to be like, okay, and then stormy, so then the 130,000 payment, that's how I think that's how you're going to have to deliver the entire show, because we are so far up on stormy mountain, I almost said, that works too.
3:21.0	Yodel Mountain stormy mountain either way. Boy, what a nice day, huh?
3:25.0	Yeah, with let's see, it would never have occurred to me that the key to Yodel Mountain would be the dynamic duo of Rudy Giuliani and Sean Hannity.
3:39.0	That broke last night, that was that was fun, so I spent this morning looking at that and then literally at 103 p.m.
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