OA339: Who is Jonathan Turley, Anyway?
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🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is a timely impeachment-themed deep dive into the testimony of George Washington University law professor -- and legitimate legal scholar -- Jonathan Turley before the House Judiciary Committee. How should you evaluate his arguments? We walk you through them, of course!
We begin, however, with a new segment: the Wingnut Lightning Round(TM), in which we evaluate -- or rather, make fun of -- two preposterous new lawsuits filed this week by two complete idiots.
After that, it's time for an #AndrewWasWrong about Ronald Burris, the interim Senator nominated by Rod Blagojevich to fill Barack Obama's unexpired Senate seat. Find out the twists and turns to this rather fascinating story as a side bonus to Andrew's well-deserved comeuppance.
Then, it's time for the main segment: the news that the House is going to draft articles of impeachment against President Trump despite the testimony of Jonathan Turley. How do the lone Republican-called witness's arguments stack up? (Hint: they're not good.) Surely the Republicans wouldn't have called someone who's on the record saying the exact opposite of what he's presently saying 20 years ago, right? (Guess.)
After all that, it's time for a fiendishly hard #T3BE about a trial, a videotape, and a jogging plaintiff. You won't want to miss it -- and you'll want to play along!
Appearances
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Show Notes & Links
- Oh man, you just have to read batshit-crazy Rep. Devin Nunes's eleventy million trillion dollar lawsuit against CNN.
- For more of the Roland Burris story, check out Wikipedia.
- Click here to read Turley's testimony for yourself.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's the first thing I want to do after we have a different president taking shower? |
| 0:10.0 | An impeachment is about cleansing the office. |
| 0:23.0 | And mind you the here to four document had had dry ink on it for at least many fork |
| 0:36.0 | nights here to it was a long time ago side. |
| 0:46.0 | I thought you said the wall was power was going to help you not punish you. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to opening arguments the podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with the real |
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| 1:09.0 | don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:19.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments this is episode three hundred and thirty nine I'm Thomas Smith that's |
| 1:24.0 | Andrew Torres how you doing Andrew I am fantastic Thomas how are you I'm great you know it we have so much to talk about today so many good |
| 1:32.0 | segments so much that I'm not even going to mention the fact that I have my twenty seventh consecutive cold in a row not even |
| 1:38.0 | going to bring it up. |
| 1:39.0 | Now I'm not I'm not I'm not even going to take the time to even say that I'm not going to bring it up that's how |
| 1:46.0 | much I'm not going to talk about yet another cold that I have from my kids and take care again not even |
| 1:51.0 | going to say we don't have time Andrew we don't have time yeah that's right so I'm not I am sympathetic and you know |
| 1:58.0 | to is this season not going to mention how I'm going to have to be muting constantly this whole time to try to get |
| 2:03.0 | through I'm not what why would I talk about why I'm okay no we have a great episode for you guys I cannot wait we've got a |
| 2:10.0 | segment that I just now invented called crackpot lightning round which I think is great we're going to quick crackpot |
| 2:16.0 | lightning round and a fun I think these are always fun the Andrew was wrong is my favorite segment because |
| 2:23.0 | it's usually you're wrong about something in consequential but that's also interesting and has a funny story so that's always fun |
| 2:28.0 | and wow we've got a lot of impeachment news don't we we've got so much to talk about there some academics some |
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