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Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Feds are honored to be joined by Rep. Ted Lieu, a forceful presence on the House Judiciary Committee. We begin with a probing look at the legal, ethical, and political implications of the President’s suggestion that it’s fine for a campaign to take negative information about an opponent from a foreign country, including the seemingly untenable position that Trump has imposed on FBI Director Christopher Wray by directly contradicting him in public. Following a sidebar from Prof Larry Tribe on the federal government’s obligation to provide information to criminal defendants, the Feds engage in a candid assessment of Congress’s attempts to date to bring the Mueller report to life before the American public, ending with Rep Lieu’s declaration that "[w]e are going to get McGahn to testify at some point." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Talking Feds, a round table that brings together prominent former federal
0:13.1	officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the day.
0:18.9	Today, we are privileged to be inside the Los Angeles offices of Congressman Ted Lu.
0:26.1	We're going to talk about the president's remarkable assertion that there's no problem
0:31.1	receiving dirt from a foreign adversary, as well as the general state of play of the House's
0:37.4	investigation into the counterintelligence aspects of the 2016 election.
0:44.3	We'll then turn to a discussion of where things stand with respect to Congress' efforts
0:49.9	to bring public attention to the more incendiary conclusions of the Mueller report and a clear
0:56.4	eye look at whether the opportunity is possibly slipping away.
1:02.1	I'm Harry Littman.
1:03.1	I'm a former United States attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General and a current Washington
1:08.0	Post columnist.
1:09.9	Today, we've assembled another fantastic quartet, or at least trio, plus me, of authoritative
1:17.1	voices on these topics.
1:20.0	First, we're very pleased to welcome, for the first time to Talking Feds, Professor Laurie
1:25.8	Levinson of Loyola Law School.
1:29.0	Laurie served here in Los Angeles as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Section,
1:35.1	where she was a trial and a pellet lawyer for eight years, becoming senior trial attorney
1:40.2	and Assistant Division Chief.
1:42.9	She's been one of the chief public authorities on Prosecutorial Practice for many years, since
1:48.6	well before it became a cottage industry in the Trump years.
1:52.8	Welcome to Talking Feds, Laurie Levinson.
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