What Will The Trial in the Senate Look Like?

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Congressional and political experts Norm Ornstein, David Frum, and Elliot Williams join Harry to analyze the probable workings – from the broad strokes to the nitty gritty – of the expected upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate. Will Mitch McConnell control all aspects with an iron fist, and what if anything will make him part company from President Trump? Will it all be a strictly political affair or will broader considerations of country and Constitution hold some sway? And how many votes for conviction can we expect the Republicans? 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	Hello everyone, Harry here. After this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Walter Dellinger,
0:06.9	former OLC head and solicitor general and Con Law scholar about the phenomenally interesting
0:14.0	aspect of John Roberts presiding over the trial. You can hear that at patreon.com slash talking
0:22.7	feds where we have exclusive material for supporters.
0:33.4	Welcome back to Talking Feds, a prosecutor's round table that brings together prominent former
0:38.7	federal officials and Washington insiders for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal
0:45.1	topics of the day. I'm Harry Littman, I'm a former United States attorney and deputy assistant
0:51.2	attorney general and a current Washington Post columnist. We are in Washington DC all this week
0:57.7	taping a series of live episodes at George Washington University Law School to coincide with the
1:08.4	to coincide with the national drama playing out a few blocks away as Congress undertakes impeachment
1:15.5	hearings for the first time in a generation and the fourth time in our nation's history.
1:20.8	Today we shift from the past to the near future. Our premise is that there will be a trial in the
1:27.9	Senate but the House will vote articles of impeachment and our question for discussion becomes what
1:33.8	will that trial look like and what should it look like to discuss this topic. Please welcome three
1:40.4	superbly qualified political commentators with deep sophistication in the ways of the political
1:47.2	branches and the Department of Justice. First Elliott Williams, a well-known contributor to
1:52.5	Talking Feds from its first days. Elliott is a principal in the Ravens Group Government Affairs
1:58.4	Practice Group and a CNN legal analyst. He is also an alum of both the DOJ where he was a senior
2:06.2	political appointee in the Obama administration and the Hill as Judiciary Committee Council to
2:13.9	Chuck Schoen. Welcome back, Elliott. Thanks for coming. Great to be here, Harry, of course.
2:19.2	David from again returns. David is a political commentator and senior editor at the Atlantic and an MSNBC
2:26.4	contributor, a former speech writer for George W. Bush, the author by the way of the term. I said
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