Quite a Week
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, Roger Stone was convicted on seven counts by a jury in the District of Columbia, and three State Department officials testified before the House Impeachment Committee. There's been a lot going on, and Benjamin Wittes assembled an all-star, all-Lawfare crew to talk through it all.
Quinta Jurecic, Margaret Taylor, Susan Hennessey, Scott R. Anderson, and David Priess make appearances to talk about different aspects of the week's events. They talked about the Stone verdict, the impact of the testimony on the Hill, the impact on the State Department as it watched its senior officials testify against the president, what to expect next, and how this impeachment fits in with historic impeachments.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | What we really observed on a Wednesday is the testing of a lot of different theories. |
| 0:39.0 | We compared it to throwing spaghetti against the wall. |
| 0:42.0 | You had efforts to tie in some of these outlandish conspiracy theories, |
| 0:46.0 | particularly by Devon Nunez and some other familiar figures. |
| 0:50.0 | You had efforts to, in several cases, kind of justify President Trump's actions, |
| 0:55.0 | the actions of certain other figures saying, well, isn't it legitimate to have concerns about corruption? |
| 0:59.0 | Isn't it legitimate to remove your ambassador? |
| 1:03.0 | We also had a lot of efforts at distraction, essentially. |
| 1:06.0 | A big focus on the whistleblower efforts to get the whistleblower to testify, |
| 1:11.0 | arguments that Chairman Schiff is obstructing those efforts, refusing to cooperate despite prior commitments. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast, November 16, 2019. |
| 1:24.0 | Roger Stone has been convicted on seven counts by a jury in the District of Columbia |
| 1:32.0 | and three count them, one, two, three State Department officials, have testified before the House Impeachment Committee this week. |
| 1:42.0 | There's been a lot going on and we have quite the gang to chew it all over. |
| 1:48.0 | It's the whole LawFair crew at various times over the next hour talking about different aspects of the events of the week. |
| 1:56.0 | We talked about the Stone verdict. |
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