Trump's Got 99 Problems But Too Much Respect for the Law Ain't One of Them...

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Syria strike was likely highly ineffective due to the fact that it was limited in impact, came without a long-term strategy or much likelihood of follow-up actions to end the use of chemical weapons or the wholesale slaughter of Syrians. But wait, it gets worse: It was also an illegal strike by almost every measure. But hey, that's not a bug it's a feature of the Trump approach to the presidency and life. He's one of those people who sees the law as something only little people must deal with. We discuss what that means for him, U.S. foreign policy, and this teetering presidency with Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, Susan Hennessey of Lawfare, Kim Ghattas of the Carnegie Endowment and our own Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law School.Tune in!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio. This is David Rothkoff and I am coming to you from the special deep state offices in Hong Kong.
0:58.0	Joining us also on this podcast, our old friend Kim Gatiss who is a fellow at the Carnegie
1:06.8	Endowment for International Peace based in Beirut, Lebanon where she is
1:11.4	working on a book coming to us from are you in New Haven
1:17.0	owner or are you yes I'm in New Haven Connecticut coming from beautiful New Haven, Connecticut is Onah Hathaway, who is a professor of law at Yale Law School.
1:28.3	We have our own regular professor of law, actually associate dean at the Georgetown School of Law, Rosa Brooks, and of the
1:35.6	Law Fair blog, you can get the sense the law may be a theme of this episode, Susan Hennessy. What I want to do is I want to devote sort of a bit of this
1:46.8	discussion at the front end to Syria and then I'd like to move to legal issues and then I'd like to see if I can tie all that together.
1:56.8	But Kim, you are in Beirut, you've been watching with interest local coverage of what happened in Syria and I'm
2:08.4	wondering what your take is right now. The take, whether it's mine or the Lebanese or the Syrians in much of the
2:18.9	region, is oh this was just more of the same.
2:23.1	And more of the same meaning similar to the strike
2:27.3	that President Trump ordered last year,
2:30.7	around the same time.
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