The Lawfare Podcast Bonus Edition: Gordon Sondland vs the Committee with No Bull
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 220 minutes
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Summary
It was another exciting day at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified in the impeachment inquiry. While two more officials testified in a second hearing after Sondland, we thought his testimony was important enough to bring you ASAP. Here is the testimony of Amb. Sondland in the impeachment inquiry with no member-infighting, no speechifying, and no unnecessary fluff.
Here are some time-stamps to guide your listening:
Sondland opening: 00:00:59
Democratic Counsel (and Chairman Schiff) 00:37:15
Republican Counsel (and Ranking Member Nunes) 1:23:30
Democratic Counsel (and Chairman Schiff) 2:07:15
Republican Counsel (and Ranking Member Nunes) 2:40:30
Member Questions: 3:00:00
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad free version of the LawFair |
| 0:07.2 | podcast become a material supporter of LawFair at patreon.com slash LawFair. |
| 0:14.7 | That's patreon.com slash LawFair. |
| 0:18.2 | Also check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair no bull, |
| 0:27.2 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Alana Kagan and this is the LawFair podcast bonus edition November 20th 2019. |
| 0:37.3 | It was another exciting day at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. |
| 0:41.2 | US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Saunman testified in the impeachment inquiry. |
| 0:46.6 | While two more officials testified in a second hearing after Saunman, we thought his testimony |
| 0:51.0 | was important enough to bring you as soon as possible. |
| 0:54.2 | So you'll hear from Ambassador Saunman tonight and from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense |
| 0:58.5 | Laura Cooper and Under Secretary of State David Hale tomorrow. |
| 1:03.0 | With that, here is the testimony of Ambassador Saunman in the impeachment inquiry with no |
| 1:07.3 | member in fighting, no speechifying, and no unnecessary fluff. |
| 1:11.6 | It's the LawFair podcast bonus edition. |
| 1:13.9 | Gordon Saunman versus the committee with no bull. |
| 1:18.1 | I don't intend to repeat my prior opening statement or attempt to summarize 10 hours of |
| 1:23.1 | previous deposition testimony. |
| 1:25.7 | However, a few critical points have been obscured by noise over the last few days and weeks, |
| 1:33.4 | and I'm worried that the bigger picture is being ignored. |
| 1:37.5 | So let me make a few key points. |
| 1:41.5 | First, Secretary Perry, Ambassador, Volker, and I worked with Mr. Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine |
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