Perverted Pardons and Private Prisons
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In a show jam-packed with great information and provocative discussion, Ralph welcomes constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, to update us on impeachment, professor and author, Sinan Antoon, to decry the pardons given to American mercenaries convicted of murder in Iraq, and attorney John Dacey, who is campaigning to abolish the private prison industry.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.3 | Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:15.3 | My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host, David Feldman. |
| 0:18.6 | Hello, David. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:21.1 | And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:23.2 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:25.0 | And we have an old friend and regular listeners know him very well. |
| 0:29.4 | Bruce Fine is joining us, could give us a little update on impeachment here as we speak |
| 0:34.9 | on the third day of February. |
| 0:36.9 | Ralph, why don't you and Bruce talk about a little bit of impeachment? |
| 0:39.9 | Yes, I think our listeners want to get an early view of the brief that the Democrats |
| 0:44.8 | and the House have sent to the Senate pursuant to the trial of Donald J. Trump on one |
| 0:51.4 | article of impeachment has already passed by the House of Representatives and the trial |
| 0:56.4 | starts on February 9th. |
| 0:58.7 | So I'm going to ask Bruce a preliminary question. |
| 1:02.4 | Bruce, regardless of how this comes out in the Senate, is it correct to say that the federal |
| 1:08.2 | government can criminally prosecute Donald J. Trump for inciting a riot in so many ways |
| 1:14.8 | at the time and laying the groundwork for it to show his intent in previous weeks and |
| 1:20.6 | months? |
| 1:21.6 | Can he be criminally prosecuted under federal law? |
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