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DSR's Words Matter

Preview: Mimi Rocah-Constitutional Crisis

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Joe interviews Mimi Rocah and they discuss whether or not we have reached the point of a Constitutional Crisis. The full interview drops on Thursday. Mimi Rocah is Pace Law's Distinguished Fellow in Criminal Justice and a Legal Analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. From February 2001 until October 2017, Mimi was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.  As an AUSA, Mimi successfully prosecuted and tried numerous cases including several high-profile Organized Crime cases. During her career in SDNY, Mimi held a number of leadership positions including, Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Unit, as well as Chief of the General Crimes and Narcotics Units for the SDNY. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.2

Welcome to Words Matter.

0:23.0

Here's a special preview of our next episode, with Joe Lockhart and special guest, Mimi

0:28.3

Rokha.

0:30.2

Looking forward and put on your history and had, will historians look back at this week

0:34.8

and say this is where we reached a constitutional crisis?

0:38.0

I think so.

0:39.0

I mean, if we hadn't already been there, I think when you now have the head of the Department

0:45.4

of Justice, and the start of really weeks ago, really from the moment of the rollout of

0:50.7

the Mueller Report, it became even clearer with Barr's testimony.

0:55.1

You have the person who's supposed to be head of the Justice Department, acting as the

1:00.2

president's white-color criminal defense attorney.

1:03.5

I mean, there's really no other way to put it.

1:06.0

He makes factual defenses for him.

1:08.6

He makes legal arguments for him.

1:10.6

He spins things for him.

1:12.5

And now he's preventing in this very way-to-broad way, documents, information, testimony and evidence

1:20.6

from getting to another branch, co-equal branch of government with really almost no basis

1:26.4

in the law, I think we're there.

1:28.0

We are at it and the question is, what are they going to do about it?

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