Special Edition: Indictment Day

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🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What a day. Paul Manafort Jr. and Richard Gates III have been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who today also rolled out a plea deal with Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos. Lawfare contributing editors Paul Rosenzweig, who worked under Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and Robert Bauer, who served as Barack Obama's White House Counsel, join Benjamin Wittes for a discussion of the day's events.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:29.9	I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast October 30, 2017 Special Edition
0:37.5	in Dightment Day.
0:40.1	It was a big day today in Washington.
0:42.3	An indictment came down against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates and a surprise plea deal
0:50.7	involving George Poppidopoulos emerged out of nowhere.
0:56.1	We gathered the gang on a conference called Bob Bauer, former White House Council under
1:01.3	President Obama and Paul Rosen's Wig, former DHS official and more importantly for present
1:09.0	purposes, a prosecutor under independent council Kenneth Star.
1:13.7	We talked about the indictments.
1:15.6	We talked about what comes next.
1:18.0	We avoided irresponsible speculation.
1:21.4	It's the LawFair podcast, Special Edition indictment day.
1:27.1	Paul, get us started.
1:29.5	You've been a federal prosecutor in a high profile investigation of the president.
1:37.6	What is your read on this?
1:40.2	What happened today?
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