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The DSR Network

Special Emergency Episode: From Sessions to Whitaker, How Low Can Trump Go?

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

There are constitutional reasons why Mathew Whitaker should not succeed Jeff Sessions as even the Acting Attorney General of the US. There are legal reasons. There are ethical reasons. But none of these stopped Donald Trump from beginning the latest chapter in his effort to obstruct justice and contain the threats he feel Robert Mueller's investigation poses for him. On this special episode Florida-based attorney and former prosecutor Katie Phang and Georgetown Law's Rosa Brooks join us to discuss this disturbing and dangerous if not quite shocking turn of events.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to a special edition of Deep State Radio. We are here to discuss the major changes that took place in the wake of the

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election and the President fired Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and welcomed as Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker who had

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been the Chief of Staff to Sessions.

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Many people have seen this as a direct threat to the Mueller investigation, and in fact some have pointed

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out that had there not been a reason to it had the Mueller investigation

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not been the rationale behind making this move he could have simply done what would have been more natural and that's to make the deputy attorney general

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Rod Rosenberg the acting attorney general which he did not do.

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So we're here to talk about this in its many manifestations and

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fortunately we've got with us Katie Fang who has been a guest before who has been a

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prosecutor who is an attorney practicing in Florida and of

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course Rosa Brooks who is a professor Georgetown University School of Law a

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commentator and a founding member of the Deep

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State Radio Inner Circle.

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