Joyce Vance is a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, a professor at the University of Alabama Law School, and an MSNBC legal analyst.

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This week on the CAFE Insider podcast, Joyce Vance is joined by guest co-host Elie Honig while Preet is out. Elie served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, and he is now a CAFE contributor, the host of CAFE’s Up Against the Mob podcast, and a senior legal analyst at CNN.

Joyce and Elie discuss the latest developments in former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases:

– Reporting from ABC News that Trump directed his former assistant to tell investigators that she did not know that he was storing classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, and that Trump wrote to-do lists on classified documents; 

– Efforts by former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark and three fake electors to remove the Georgia state case to federal court, and the likelihood that Trump follows suit; and

– Elie’s criticism of DA Fani Willis’s decision to bring charges against Trump in the first place.

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In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Preet and geopolitics expert Ian Bremmer discuss the death of Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the involvement of Elon Musk’s Starlink in the Russia-Ukraine war. 

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Barb McQuade is the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, a law professor at the University of Michigan, and an NBC News/MSNBC legal analyst. To access the full written version of Barb's note, head to CAFE.com.

On the CAFE Insider docket:

– The indictment of Hunter Biden on three federal gun charges in a case brought by special counsel David Weiss;

– The impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden launched by House Republicans; and

– Developments in Donald Trump’s election interference federal case, including Trump’s motion to recuse the judge overseeing the case, and prosecutors’ motion seeking a gag order to limit Trump’s ability to speak publicly about the case.

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In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Preet and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell discuss life as a lawyer, and what it means to be “theory-rich.”

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On the CAFE Insider docket:

– The Fulton County, Georgia special purpose grand jury’s newly unsealed report from the Trump election interference investigation, which revealed that jurors recommended charges against Senator Lindsey Graham and other Trump allies who ultimately were not charged;

– The order by a federal judge rejecting former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s bid to transfer his Georgia state criminal charges to federal court;

– The cooperation by a Mar-a-Lago IT worker in Trump’s classified documents criminal case;

– The ruling by a federal judge that found Trump liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll; and

– Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s conviction on two counts of contempt of Congress for flouting a January 6 House Committee subpoena.

We hope you’re finding CAFE Insider informative. Email us at [email protected] with your suggestions and questions for Preet and Joyce. 

Shownotes & transcript can be found at CAFE.com.

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