Facts Driven

In this special guest episode, courtesy of Libby Ballengee of Gem City Podcast, Marshall Lachman, candidate for the Second District Court of Appeals discusses the journey from lawyer-to-judge, what makes a good judge, and how voters can be better prepared to vet and vote for the judges on the ballot.

Week two of the public impeachment hearings started on Tuesday November 19. This hearing was jam packed with testimony from four witnesses with legitimate knowledge of the details surrounding the July 25th phone call in which the president attempted to pressure the President of Ukraine to launch an investigation into his top political opponent Joe Biden in return for critical military aid for Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

We heard from Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine specialist on the National Security Council, Jennifer Williams, a foreign service aide detailed to Vice President Pence's office. Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, who along with Sondland and Energy Secretary Rick Perry was part of the "three amigos" tasked by the president to handle Ukraine policy and Tim Morrison, a former National Security Council aide.

Earlier today, the country witnessed history! The first public, televised impeachment hearing of Donald Trump on Capitol Hill.

And as promised, Dan Thomas is here with our debrief of today’s events in Washington.

Today's hearing was everything we thought it would be and more ..and I can't wait to get right into the most notable takeaways from today's hearing that featured Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, the man who sent the now famous text saying, “I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign”  and George Kent, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.

The hearing was 5 hours and 36 minutes long and covered everything from the firing of Ukrainian Diplomat, Marie Yovanovitch - to the president directly ordering diplomats to bribe Ukraine for dirt on Joe Biden.

In this episode, we bring you part 6 of the Trump and Obstruction of Justice series, The effort to Curtail Mueller. According to LawFare.com this instance is particularly concerning because the President’s directives indicate that Sessions was being instructed to tell the Special Counsel to end the existing investigation into the President and his campaign.

On Tuesday October 29th, the NCAA, the organization that manages collegiate sports announced that its governing body voted unanimously to start the process of allowing college athletes to profit from their names, images and likeness.

The NCAA’s board of governors gathered Tuesday morning in Atlanta on the campus of Emory University for its final regularly scheduled meeting of 2019.

The board asked the three separate NCAA divisions to “Immediately begin figuring out how to update their rules in a way that maintains a distinction between college and professional sports”.

Over the years, several NCAA players, coaches and programs have found themselves embroiled in controversy regarding financial perks given to players. This issue has escaped not even the biggest of names in our sports culture.  NFL Quarterback Cam Newton, former basketball star and commentator Chris Webber, and Bengals Star Wide Receiver A.J. Green been found “guilty” of receiving improper financial perks during their collegiate playing days.

In this episode, we discuss #5 on the list of instances of Obstruction of justice by the president, as described in the Mueller Report. The effort to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the very person in charge of writing the report we are breaking down in this series.