Special Edition: Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower Moscow Plea
Thursday saw another plea deal from Michael Cohen: this time with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Cohen pleaded guilty to one count of lying to Congress regarding how long into the 2016 campaign the T...
29 Nov 20181h 8min
Alina and Scott Talk Ukraine and Russia
This week, Russia and Ukraine went at it in the Kerch Strait, which separates the Black Sea from the Sea of Azov. It's the latest salvo in Russia's (not-so-secret) war against Ukraine and its eastern ...
27 Nov 201853min
John Carlin on "Dawn of the Code War"
John Carlin served as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s National Security Division from April 2014 to October 2016. In his new book with Garrett Graff, called “Dawn of the Code W...
24 Nov 201855min
What to Expect from the New Iraqi Government
Earlier this year, just as the United States was preparing to kick-off its national elections, the country of Iraq was finalizing the results of its own and finally installing a new government after m...
21 Nov 201849min
Jung Pak at #NatSecGirlSquad
Following the #NatSecGirlSquad’s first conference, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Jung Pak before a live audience at the Bier Baron in Washington, DC. Jung is a senior fellow in the Brookings Instituti...
17 Nov 201843min
The U.K. and Europe on the Brink of Brexit
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that U.K. and EU officials have reached a provisional Brexit agreement. Though as of this recording, the text of that agreement has not been released, we at Law...
14 Nov 201857min
Paul Rosenzweig on Investigating American Presidents
With the firing of Jeff Sessions and his replacement with former U.S. attorney Matt Whitaker, all eyes this week are focused on whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interf...
10 Nov 201831min
Special Edition: Sessions is Out!
President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday and replaced him on an interim basis with the attorney general’s own chief of staff, a man named Matt Whitaker. Whitaker has made repe...
8 Nov 201857min
