Special Edition: Preet Bharara Discusses…Everything
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🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today Benjamin Wittes got on the phone with former U.S. attorney and podcast empresario Preet Bharara to discuss a recent report Preet has published along with the National Task Force on Rule of Law & Democracy, a group which Preet co-chairs along with former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman.
The conversation took a turn towards the news: They talked about a hot-of-the-presses Washington Post story naming former attorney general William Barr as President Trump’s leading candidate to be the next attorney general. And, of course, they discussed the Mueller investigation. After that, they turned back to their original purpose, the Task Force report.
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| 0:27.2 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition December 6th, 2018. |
| 0:38.8 | I had originally asked Prit Barara to come on the LawFair podcast to discuss the report |
| 0:45.7 | of the National Task Force on Rule of Law and Democracy which he co-chairs with former New |
| 0:52.6 | Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. |
| 0:56.1 | And we did talk about that, but along the way we talked about a bunch of other things |
| 1:02.6 | too because there's been a lot in the news people just as we were about to start recording |
| 1:07.1 | the Washington Post reported that the president was considering nominating former attorney |
| 1:12.6 | general William Barr to take over his old job once again. |
| 1:17.9 | There's been a bunch of special counsel news and so we got to talking and before we knew |
| 1:23.8 | it, it was not one of those podcasts that would wait its turn. |
| 1:27.1 | It was just kind of a special edition of the LawFair podcast so we're putting it out there |
| 1:31.9 | same day. |
| 1:33.3 | So here it is folks, it's the LawFair podcast episode 371, Prit Barara discusses everything. |
| 1:45.3 | So Prit, I invited you on the podcast to talk about the National Task Force Rule of Law |
| 1:51.4 | and Democracy Proposal for Reform Report. |
| 1:55.8 | But since you agreed to do it and we've scheduled it, a whole lot of news has broken and it |
| 2:03.4 | seems crazy to have you on and not talk about any of that. |
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