State of Emergency: As the “Wall” Fight Looms, Has the Mueller Investigation Moved to its Final Stage? (with William Banks and Mimi Rocah)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Renato and Patti discuss the president’s “emergency” powers, including the limits of those powers, how they can be challenged, and how they should be reformed, with Syracuse Law Professor William C. Banks. They also speak at length with MSNBC Legal Analyst Mimi Rocah about many recent developments in the Mueller investigation, including the revelation that former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort provided private polling data to a Russian intelligence operative.

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0:00.0	M.S. W. Media.
0:09.0	This week, Donald Trump threatened to declare a state of emergency in order to build a wall on the southern border without the consent of Congress.
0:20.0	At the same time, we learned important news from the investigation of Special Council Robert Mueller.
0:27.5	Including the revelation that former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort gave internal poll data to a Russian intelligence
0:37.6	operative.
0:39.2	We also learned that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenberg
0:43.0	Rod Rosenberg will step down when Bill Barr is confirmed as Attorney General
0:48.0	and that he plans to stay until the Mueller report is completed, which suggests that the Mueller investigation
0:56.3	may come to an end soon.
0:59.1	Does Trump have the power to declare a state of emergency?
1:02.9	What can we learn from the new developments
1:05.0	in the Mueller investigation?
1:07.0	And what does this mean for the Trump presidency?
1:10.6	Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the
1:29.9	week's news.
1:31.6	My name is Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing
1:37.1	lawyer, and a CNN legal analyst. And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez,
1:42.8	a WGM radio host who will join us regularly on this podcast.
1:48.3	So, Patty, this has been an insanely busy week.
1:51.1	Yeah, this is on topics.
1:52.3	This is not on topic this week. It's going to be hard. It is literally to the point where the topics keep growing and growing by the minute as we prepare to record. No doubt about it.
2:02.8	I mean, I thought it was going to be emergency,
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