The Whistle is Blowing

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Four Charter Feds – Frank Figliuzzi, Paul Fishman, Matt Miller, and Joyce Vance—join Harry Litman to analyze the complicated questions of law, politics, and national security swirling around the bombshell revelations that 1) a whistleblower complaint from someone in the national intelligence community has been filed but is being withheld from Congress notwithstanding the plain legal command to provide it; and 2) the complaint concerns President Trump’s attempting to strongarm the President of Ukraine into gathering dirt on Joe Biden’s son. The Feds then turn their focus on Corey Lewandowski’s testimony in the House last week, including the devastating cross-examination by committee counsel Barry Berke, and consider the possibility that Lewandowski could be charged with contempt. 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 to Talking Feds, a prosecutor's roundtable that brings together prominent former
0:12.3	federal officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the day.
0:19.2	I'm Harry Littman, I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General
0:25.0	and a current Washington Post columnist.
0:28.4	I'm joined today by four of your favorite Feds, Charter Feds All, well known to anyone
0:35.3	who's been near a television or this podcast in the last couple years.
0:39.9	First, Paul Fishman, a Varnalyn and Porter, former U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Joyce
0:46.5	Vance of the University of Alabama and MSNBC contributor, also a former United States Attorney
0:54.9	in Alabama, Matthew Miller, a partner at Villanovo and the former director of the Office
1:02.7	of Public Affairs at DOJ, and Frank Figley-Uzi, the former FBI Assistant Director and an NBC
1:10.6	News National Security contributor.
1:14.4	How is that for an all-star squad to discuss the news of the week which was dominated
1:21.7	by the story of the whistleblower complaint in the National Intelligence Community that
1:28.6	was forwarded to the Inspector General of Intelligence who determined it to present a
1:35.3	matter of urgent concern and therefore under the statutory scheme to prepare to forward
1:42.6	it to the chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
1:49.1	At that point, all hell broke loose and another impasse between Congress and the White House
1:55.6	took form and seemed to be intractable.
2:01.1	Details emerged that the call concerned a promise that the whistleblower found very troubling
2:08.5	and that we now know appears to have involved the President, President Trump's efforts to
2:15.8	get the Ukraine government to provide dirt on Joseph Biden's son Hunter who worked at
2:24.6	the Ukrainian gas company for a time.
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