VP Walz, Trump Threat & Biden Legacy (with Mark Leibovich & Bob Bauer)

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Bob Bauer is a professor at NYU Law School, President Biden’s personal attorney, and former White House Counsel to President Obama. He joins Preet to discuss the dangers of unchecked presidential power, the true potential of SCOTUS reforms, and his book, The Unraveling: Reflections on Politics without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis. And in lieu of the typical Q&A, Preet speaks with Mark Leibovich, a staff writer at The Atlantic and an expert on national politics, about Kamala Harris’s decision to name Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/tim-walz-kamala-harris-leibovich-bauer/ Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network,
0:03.5	welcome to stay tuned.
0:05.5	I'm Preet Barara.
0:07.5	One of the great concerns people have about Congress in its role
0:11.0	is that we have more and more a separation of parties and not of powers.
0:16.0	And so the party in the Congress, if it is in control and of the same party as the president might choose to disregard as institutional obligations
0:26.1	and itself become an enabler of the exercise of presidential authority.
0:30.5	And that's catastrophic.
0:32.3	That's Bob Bauer.
0:33.0	He's worn many hats in the legal profession.
0:36.0	Bower served as White House Council to President Obama
0:39.0	from 2009 to 2011.
0:41.0	He co-chaired the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court in 2021, and he's currently
0:45.8	President Biden's personal attorney. He's also my colleague at NYU Law School, where
0:50.9	he is a professor.
0:52.5	Bower's new book is called The Unravelling,
0:55.2	Reflections on Politics Without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis.
0:59.6	He joins me this week to talk about the dangers of unchecked presidential power, the ethical failures of our politics, and playing the long game with Skoda's reforms. That's coming up. Stay tuned. getting started. With the Paris and Olympus kicking off, Point 4 is bringing you a couple of special
1:24.3	episodes that will help you connect more deeply with the athletes, teams, and underdogs you'll be
1:28.8	cheering for over the next few weeks. We have Carmelo, Tatum, Andrei Gidala,
1:33.9	discussing some of the top-past-USA Olympic moments.
1:37.4	I think the energy around Olympus is going to be fun.
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