Special Edition: Outing a Confidential Informant
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith and David Kris join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the sequence of events between the Justice Department, the FBI, the House intelligence committee and the White House over the last few days and the resolution arranged at the White House on Monday afternoon.
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| 0:27.3 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm Benjamin Widiff and this is the LawFair podcast special edition May 21, 2018. |
| 0:37.9 | It has been a hell of a few days on Friday, the Washington Post and the New York Times |
| 0:44.8 | both reported that a major confrontation had developed between the president, the House |
| 0:52.5 | Intelligence Committee and the FBI and Justice Department over information about a source |
| 1:00.0 | to the early phases of the Russia investigation. |
| 1:04.8 | Over the weekend, the situation escalated, leading on Sunday to a presidential tweet demanding |
| 1:12.9 | a Justice Department investigation of infiltration of the Trump campaign. |
| 1:19.5 | On Monday, the president met with acting attorney general Rod Rosenstein, FBI director Chris |
| 1:27.0 | Ray, and DNI Coats and announced a compromise of source in which the congressional leadership |
| 1:37.4 | and the heads of the agencies would sit down to review the material and the department's |
| 1:43.5 | inspector general would review the early phases of the investigation. |
| 1:48.7 | Joining me to thrash through all of this is Bob Bauer, David Chris, and Jack Old Smith. |
| 1:56.5 | Where do we start? |
| 1:57.5 | It's a big mess. |
| 1:59.3 | David, what are your top line thoughts? |
| 2:01.5 | Well, it's certainly a big mess. |
| 2:04.9 | There are two norms that the president's tweet implicated here. |
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