Roger Stone's Sentencing and Rod Blagojevich's Commutation: What Does This Mean for DOJ and the Rule of Law? (with Mike Quigley and Barb McQuade)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Renato discussed the recent intervention by Barr and other senior DOJ officials in the Roger Stone sentencing recommendation as well as recent Trump's pardons and commutations, including the commutation of the sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. He was joined by Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-5), a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence who questioned Stone, and MSNBC Legal Analyst Barb McQuade, former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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0:00.0	M.S. W. Media.
0:09.0	Today, Donald Trump pardoned Rod Lagoevich and other white-collar criminals.
0:14.0	Days earlier, Bill Barr personally intervened in the sentencing of Roger Stone.
0:20.0	What does this mean for the rule of law? Let's Renato Mary. that helps us understand the week's news.
0:43.0	My name's Renato Mariati.
0:45.0	I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a CNN legal analyst.
0:51.0	I'm usually joined by my friend Patty Vasquez who's literally in
0:55.4	her last month of campaigning. So today we're going to get right to our
0:59.4	episode and we've got a couple of fantastic guests. But first I want to recognize our
1:05.0	patrons who brought you this episode. With special thanks to Michelle Due,
1:09.8	Eric DeWurst, Edy, James Frohmeyer, Jay Galhousen, Jamie Gordon, Steve Hunsburg, and an anonymous patron.
1:19.4	You can become a patron too at our website on topic podcast.com all one word just click the
1:27.9	support link at the top of the page so today we're going to be talking about
1:32.4	the threat to the rule of law that is posed by
1:35.8	Trump and his administration, particularly Bill Barr.
1:40.0	And we've got two great guests.
1:41.8	So let's bring in our first guest.
1:43.6	Congressman Mike Quigley is a congressman in Illinois representing the Illinois
1:49.2	fifth district.
1:50.1	He happens to be my congressman.
1:51.9	He's a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
1:54.4	He was actually the person that Roger Stone lied to when he testified before Congress.
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