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The Counsel

The Comey Case Will Collapse Before It Ever Reaches a Jury

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst.  For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

0:05.0

Mom!

0:06.0

Up the stairs for something.

0:08.0

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

0:12.0

Mom, what's for dinner?

0:14.0

Chop, sizzle, done.

0:17.0

Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

0:23.4

So its phones down, forks up.

0:25.5

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

0:31.4

Hey everyone, Ellie here wishing you a happy Friday.

0:35.0

Well, you probably saw on a sad note that Ted Turner passed away this week.

0:40.2

Of course, Turner in his long and remarkable life, is best known for creating CNN. No, I never

0:47.2

got to meet Ted Turner. By the time I arrived in 2018, Turner was mostly keeping to Atlanta and to his

0:53.1

family, but I am very well aware of and grateful

0:57.8

for all that he did. I have met several of the people who were there with him at the founding of

1:04.0

CNN in 1980. They started a few years before, and it's always such an honor to meet those folks

1:09.9

and to know that I'm doing a very

1:11.1

small part to carry on the legacy of this incredible institution that they built. If you look at

1:18.3

Ted Turner's life, it's just one of those lives where all the cliches come true, where

1:23.5

this man changed the world because of his vision and his perseverance and his just

1:29.8

force of will. So many things that he did. I first became aware of Ted Turner in the 1980s.

1:36.1

I was a baseball maniac and I knew he was the owner of the Atlanta Braves. And the cool thing about

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