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The Lawfare Podcast

Trump is Defeated

The Lawfare Podcast

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4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Well, that's it, folks. We have a president elect in Joe Biden. And, we have a president who is now officially a lame duck. To talk through the transition from Donald Trump to a more normal presidency, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Scott R. Anderson, Quinta Jurecic, Jacob Schulz and Susan Hennessey.

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no bull and the aftermath.

0:34.0

It's been reported for a while that Ted Kaufman, who briefly was a senator from Delaware

0:39.9

and is a long time Biden advisor, is the person who's leading the transition effort overall.

0:46.5

And the most LawFair relevant transition personnel figure is Avril Haynes, who used to be

0:54.6

the deputy national security advisor.

0:57.4

There's been reporting that suggests that she's leading the Biden transitions form policy

1:02.1

a national security team.

1:03.8

And then this week, I would say the biggest transition related story was a piece in

1:09.0

Politico that described that Biden has he's a COVID task force as part of his transition

1:15.8

team.

1:16.8

I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast November 9, 2020.

1:23.8

Well, that's it folks.

1:25.8

We have a president elect Joe Biden if you hadn't emerged from your cave.

1:32.0

And we have a president who is now officially a lame duck, although don't try to tell

1:37.3

him that.

1:38.8

So we are going to shift hard and talk about the transition.

1:44.0

Where Joe Biden goes from here, how do you transition from Donald Trump to a more normal presidency?

1:52.1

And does the insurgency have last gasps joining me in the jungle studio?

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