Pardon Our Obstruction!

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It was already a big week with the Supreme Court’s final decisions and the House hearing with ousted SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman; but Trump’s Friday-night commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence made it enormous. This episode begins with a 1-on-1 with Harry and Congressman Adam Schiff about the Stone scandal, then moves into a larger discussion with the Congressman, Jen Rubin, and Barb McQuade about the Trump cases – were they great or a mixed bag? –the politics of a Stone commutation, and Berman. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Talking Feds.
0:03.1	We begin with a post script.
0:04.7	In our episode tape Friday afternoon, we discussed the prospect that President Trump would
0:09.6	commute the sentence of long time, crony and dirty political trickster Roger Stone for
0:14.6	seven felonies centering around obstructing the investigation into Trump himself.
0:20.9	Late Friday night, the well-known witching hour for political corruption, Trump turned
0:25.6	it from a prospect to a fact.
0:28.1	Republican Senator Mitt Romney captured the depravity of it.
0:32.1	Unprecedented, historic corruption and American president commutes the sentence of a person
0:37.5	convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
0:43.0	Romney tweeted,
0:44.0	Congresswoman Adam Schiff, a guest in this week's show, looks more prophetic than ever in
0:48.5	the warnings he gave the Senate and the country in the impeachment trial.
0:52.9	He has done it before and he will do it again.
0:56.9	What are the odds if he has left an office that he will continue to try to cheat?
1:00.6	I will tell you 100%.
1:03.6	Congresswoman Schiff hugely graciously agreed to come back in on a weekend for his reaction
1:09.5	and analysis.
1:10.5	Thank you so much, Congresswoman Adam Schiff.
1:13.7	Let me get right to it.
1:15.0	How does this action compare, as you see it in the sort of pantheon of corrupt conduct
1:21.1	by this president since 2016?
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