The Report, Episode 12: It Will Never Get Out
It’s February 6, 2018. Don McGahn is back in the Oval Office with President Trump and the new White House chief of staff John Kelly. The New York Times has just published a story reporting that, back ...
20 Okt 20191h
What's Going on in Syria
It's been a horrible week in northeastern Syria. The U.S. abandoned its Kurdish allies after the president had a conversation by phone with Turkish President Erdogan and pulled the plug on the stabili...
19 Okt 201957min
Chesney, Monaco, McCord, and Rasmussen on Domestic Terrorism
A couple of weeks ago, Lawfare and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law sponsored a series of panels at the Texas Tribune Festival. For this episode, we bring you the audio of our Tri...
16 Okt 201958min
The Report, Episode 11: A Special Counsel
It’s May 17, 2017. White House Counsel Don McGahn is in the Oval Office with the president. McGahn’s job is to represent the office of the presidency, which isn’t quite the same as representing the pr...
13 Okt 201958min
Leah Sottile on Bundyville and American Radicalism
At his rally in Minneapolis earlier this week, President Trump received voluntary security from an unexpected source: the Oathkeepers, a far-right militia associated with the white supremacy movement....
12 Okt 20191h 9min
Jim Baker and Susan Landau on 'Moving the Encryption Policy Conversation Forward'
Encryption and going dark splashed across the headlines in the wake of the 2015 San Bernardino attack, when the FBI and Apple went to court over access to an encrypted iPhone recovered from one of the...
9 Okt 201949min
The Report, Episode 10: You're Fired
It’s March 7, 2017. The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the nomination of Rod Rosenstein to be the Deputy Attorney General. Rosenstein’s whole career has been leading up to this mom...
6 Okt 20191h 3min
Jack Goldsmith on 'In Hoffa’s Shadow'
In 1975, labor union leader and American icon Jimmy Hoffa went missing. Forty-four years after Hoffa’s disappearance, the crime remains one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries. One of those frequ...
5 Okt 201959min
