Special Edition: The Mueller Investigation's Weird Weekend
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
What a weird weekend it has been. The Manafort jury is deliberating, the White House lawyer is cooperating with the special prosecutor and giving 30 hours of interview about presidential conduct, and Michael Cohen seems poised to either be indicted or form a cooperation deal with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York.
Benjamin Wittes jumped on the phone to discuss all of this with former White House counsel Bob Bauer, former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero, and Lawfare contributor Paul Rosenzweig.
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| 0:27.3 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition August 20th 2018. |
| 0:39.4 | What a weird weekend it has been. |
| 0:42.4 | The Manafort jury is deliberating. |
| 0:45.8 | The White House lawyer is cooperating with the special prosecutor and giving 30 hours |
| 0:52.5 | of interview about presidential conduct and Michael Cohen seems poised to either be |
| 1:00.5 | indicted or form a cooperation deal with the US attorney's office in the Southern District |
| 1:07.4 | of New York. |
| 1:08.9 | Things are happening quickly and we have the perfect group of people to talk about it. |
| 1:13.7 | Joining me on a recorded Skype line apologies for any audio quality glitches are former White |
| 1:21.1 | House counsel Bob Bauer, former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero and Paul Rosenz-Waig, |
| 1:29.0 | man of many trades most notably for present purposes veteran of an independent council investigation. |
| 1:36.3 | Paul get us started. |
| 1:38.3 | What are your impressions? |
| 1:39.9 | Well, I think the dominant impression that I have is that the more things change, the more |
| 1:45.7 | they stay the same or it's ground talk day all over again. |
| 1:49.7 | The efforts by the special counsel to interview the White House counsel for example are very |
| 1:58.0 | much like the efforts by the star investigation to talk to Bruce Lindsay who was then in the |
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