The Cohen Hearing vs. the Kavanaugh Hearings

Boom! Lawyered

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

An unforgettable day of testimony on Capitol Hill began with Republicans demanding a do-over because—wait for it—they didn't get documents on time. For anyone who followed the Kavanaugh hearings, that might be funny if it wasn't so sad. And that was just the beginning! In this emergency episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani discuss some of the most pressing legal questions and concerning developments from Michael Cohen's day of testimony before the House oversight committee.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.1	Welcome to a special congressional hearing episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.
0:13.5	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that wonders what Watergate would have
0:18.8	been like if Twitter existed back then.
0:21.3	I'm Imani Gandhi.
0:22.8	And I'm Jess Piclo.
0:24.3	Rewire.
0:24.6	News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice news, commentary,
0:29.4	and analysis on the web.
0:30.8	And the team legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:33.2	So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:36.5	So Jessica.
0:38.9	Amani.
0:39.7	This isn't the episode we had planned to do today, but then we started watching the Cohen
0:44.8	congressional hearings and we were like, I think we may want to do a topic switch.
0:50.4	What a morning.
0:51.9	I'm not even out of my pajamas.
0:53.9	And I mean, as somebody who, I mean, that's kind of
0:56.5	normal, but sincerely, like, I mean, literally rolled right out of bed and into what the hell
1:01.2	is happening to our democracy? It is bananas. I feel like we were watching democracy
1:06.1	crumble before our eyes. And wow. So let's talk about what we've seen so far.
1:12.2	What jumped out at you first?
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