Jeffrey Tulis on 'The Rhetorical Presidency' on Steroids
On a flight recently, Benjamin Wittes read a book that knocked his socks off: "The Rhetorical Presidency" by political scientist Jeffrey Tulis. While written in 1987, the book seems to anticipate our ...
26 Jan 201951min
Molly Reynolds and Margaret Taylor on National Security and the 116th Congress
It's a new year with a new Congress, and the Democrats now control the House of Representatives. But how will that change affect the state of play for national security legal issues? To find out, Benj...
23 Jan 201951min
Ian Bassin on Protecting Democracy
Ian Bassin served in the White House Counsel's office under President Obama. At the dawn of the Trump administration, he became the impresario behind the litigating organization Protect Democracy, whi...
19 Jan 201940min
Special Edition: Bill Barr vs. the Committee with No Bull
Bill Barr spent Tuesday testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his nomination to take over the reins of the Justice Department as attorney general, a role he previously held during the Ge...
16 Jan 20192h 1min
Special Edition: The FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation of Donald Trump
Benjamin Wittes talks to Carrie Cordero, Chuck Rosenberg, David Kris, Jack Goldsmith and Susan Hennessey about the New York Times's report that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation of Do...
12 Jan 20191h 3min
Greg Miller on “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy”
Last week, Jack Goldsmith got on the phone with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist Greg Miller to discuss Miller’s new book, “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of America...
12 Jan 201943min
Special Edition: Jaimie Nawaday on the Veselnitskaya Indictment
Benjamin Wittes talks to Jaimie Nawaday, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, to discuss the indictment of Natalia Veselnitskaya over alleged obstruction of justice in a c...
9 Jan 201929min
John Sipher on Spy Swaps: Past, Present, and Future
The Russian government's recent arrest of American Paul Whelan and its charges against him have many politicians and pundits speculating about the possibility of an intended spy swap for Maria Butina....
8 Jan 201935min
