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The Aftermath- Episode 6: G...

06.16.2023

The season finale delves into what was going on behind the scenes in the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation in the months between its first public hearing to its second, almost a year later. To many, the Jan. 6 committee’s public ...

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06.16.2023 The Aftermath- Episode 6: Going Dark The season finale delves into what was going on behind the scenes in the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation in the months between its first public hearing to its second, almost a year later. To many, the Jan. 6 committee’s public ...
01.05.2023 The Aftermath- Episode 5: Who Tells Your Story? In this fifth episode of The Aftermath, we explore another aspect of Congress’s response to Jan. 6: efforts to create an investigative body to find out what had happened. Proposals for a national commission began the day after the attack ...
01.05.2023 The Aftermath- Episode 4: A Bipartisan Interlude This episode of The Aftermath recalls the brief period where Democrats and Republicans worked together to respond to Jan. 6—and actually made a lot of progress. How? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
01.05.2023 The Aftermath- Episode 3: Congress Responds In the days after the January 6th insurrection, for Raskin and his colleagues, it wasn’t entirely clear that the insurrection was over. And for at least a brief moment, there seemed to be some kind of consensus. The moment turned ...
01.05.2023 The Aftermath - Ep 2: Scattered to the Four Winds In the wake of January 6, there were immediate calls for en masse arrests of all individuals on the Capitol compound, and demands that every one of them be hauled into court to stand trial. But our justice system does ...
01.05.2023 The Aftermath - Episode 1: Day Zero, Ground Zero The Aftermath is not a podcast about the insurrection itself, or about how we got there. It’s a podcast about what happened next – how our democracy is attempting to right itself in the face of an existential threat. Who ...
08.15.2022 Lawfare Presents: ALLIES Ep. 7 Mahnaz was a member of a Female Tactical Platoon in the Afghan Military. She was one of tens of thousands of Afghans who came to the United States during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. In our final episode, you’ll learn about ...
08.15.2022 Lawfare Presents: ALLIES Ep. 6 20 years of war and broken bureaucracy culminate during the US withdrawal at the Kabul airport. Thousands of Afghans rush to the tarmac where American forces sort through the crowds. Veterans, advocates and politicians try to get their allies out ...
08.15.2022 Lawfare Presents: ALLIES Ep. 5 We return to Fred—an Afghan combat interpreter who served with American soldiers for more than 13 years. After years of denials, an ad hoc team of lawyers and veterans tried to push his Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) application through federal ...
08.15.2022 Lawfare Presents: ALLIES Ep. 4 Matt Zeller deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, where an Afghan interpreter saved his life. Matt spent years trying to get him resettled in the United States and saw the problems with the SIV program firsthand. Together, they started lobbying to ...
08.15.2022 Lawfare Presents: ALLIES Ep. 3 Fred took a job as an Afghan interpreter in 2004. He ended up serving side-by-side with American soldiers for more than 13 years. But when the Taliban started targeting him after a mission, Fred started looking for a way out. ...
08.15.2022 Lawfare Presents: ALLIES Ep. 2 In 2003 the US started another war with the military invasion of Iraq. There, soldiers, aid workers, diplomats and politicians saw the threat that local interpreters, translators and partners faced for their work. That’s when Congress created the SIV program ...
08.15.2022 Lawfare Presents: ALLIES Ep. 1 In order to tell you this story, we need to start at the beginning. After 9/11, the CIA set their sights on al-Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan. When the military invaded that fall, people up and down the chain of command ...
08.12.2022 Lawfare Presents: ALLIES From Lawfare and Goat Rodeo, this is ALLIES: A podcast about America’s eyes and ears during 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12.20.2021 Trailer: The Aftermath On January 6, 2021, a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Their goal was to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, and they intended to do it by disrupting ...
11.17.2021 Lawfare Presents: Chatter, a new podcast from Shane Harris and David Priess A brand new podcast from Lawfare. Weekly long-form conversations with fascinating people at the creative edges of national security. Unscripted. Informal. Always fresh. Chatter guests roll with the punches to describe artistic endeavors related to national security and jump into ...
04.22.2021 Lawfare Presents: After Trump, Obstruction and Pardons The pardon power was designed to be a tool for correcting wrongs. Any system of justice applied to a whole nation is going to have failures. A pardon is there to correct miscarriages of justice—and injustice. It was always believed ...
04.15.2021 Lawfare Presents: After Trump, Enemy of the People In this episode, we consider the problem of foreign interventions in American political campaigns—and what to do about it. And we’re also going to look at how Trump blocked and tackled the free press, especially when it reported on Trump’s ...
04.08.2021 Lawfare Presents: After Trump, Follow the Money In our first episode, we explore some of President Trump’s most brazen transgressions—the conflicts of interest, the self-dealing and those elusive tax returns. In the run up to his inauguration, Trump created a sort of original sin when it came ...
02.06.2020 The Impeachment: Final Day The Impeachment Trial concludes with a final vote on the Articles of Impeachment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
02.05.2020 The Impeachment: Day 12 The Impeachment Trial continues with Day 12. Senators are given time to make statements pertaining to their vote of impeachment happening the next day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
02.04.2020 The Impeachment: Day 11 The Impeachment Trial continues with closing arguments from House Managers and White House Counsel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
02.01.2020 the Impeachment: Day 10 It’s January 31, 2020. It’s the 10th day of the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump. I’m Margaret Taylor, Senior Editor at Lawfare. Today, Senators listened to the arguments of the parties, and then voted 49-51 not to call ...
01.31.2020 The Impeachment: Day 9 On the 9th day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, Senators have a second day to ask questions through the Chief Justice to house managers and white house counsel. As Senators pass their questions on small cards in ...
01.30.2020 The Impeachment: Day 8 The Impeachment Trial continues, as questions from Senators are asked of House Managers and Counsel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
01.28.2020 The Impeachment: Day 7 It's January 28th, 2020. It’s the seventh day of the impeachment trial of president Donald J. Trump. The president's team of lawyers wrap up their arguments in defense of the president. Over the last two days of the trial, senators ...
01.28.2020 The Impeachment: Day 6 It’s January 27, 2020. On the sixth day of the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, the President’s team of lawyers resume their arguments in defense of the President. On Saturday, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his team ...
01.25.2020 The Impeachment: Day 5 This is Day 5 of the Impeachment. In this short session, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone opened the case for the president’s defense, laying out what the defense believed are the stakes of impeachment. He noted that the defense would ...
01.25.2020 The Impeachment: Day 4 Today, the fourth day of the Impeachment, the house managers wrap up their case. They close their arguments on Trump’s first article of impeachment, and then turn to the second--obstruction of Congress. Today is their last chance to speak before ...
01.24.2020 The Impeachment: Day 3 Today is Day 3 of the Impeachment -- the House Managers continue their cases to the Senate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
01.23.2020 The Impeachment: Day 2 Today is Day 2 of the Impeachment -- the House Managers bring their opening cases to the Senate. They walk through the chronology of Trump’s interactions with Ukraine, as well as the other central figures involved. They also stress the ...
01.22.2020 The Impeachment: Day 1 It’s January 21st, 2020. A month ago, the House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Now the United States Senate must decide whether to convict the president and remove him from office. ...
01.20.2020 The Impeachment: Trailer On January 21, 2020 The Impeachment Trial of President Donald Trump will begin. Each day, on the Senate floor, the case for and against his impeachment and removal from office will be made to Senators. During this trial there will ...
11.08.2019 The Report Part XV: Mueller's Report It Friday, March 22, 2019. It’s been nearly two years since Robert Mueller was first appointed Special Counsel. Now, he’s ready to submit a final report to the Attorney General. He has uncovered a sprawling and systematic effort by Russia ...
11.01.2019 The Report Part XIV: The Fixer Flips We’re almost at the end of our story. This episode will cover the final set of activity that the Special Counsel examines for possible obstruction of justice: the president’s behavior towards his long time attorney Michael Cohen. Unlike the other ...
10.25.2019 The Report Part XIII: Pardons On The Table It’s January 2018. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates are in a whole lot of trouble. The past is catching up to them. Three months earlier, they’d both been indicted on multiple felony counts and now it looks like there might ...
10.18.2019 The Report Part XII: 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 in June of ...
10.11.2019 The Report Part XI: 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 president personally. It’s a delicate ...
10.04.2019 The Report Part X: 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 moment. He’s a non-partisan sort of guy. ...
09.27.2019 The Report Part IX: Honest Loyalty It’s January 26, 2017. Sally Yates is the acting Attorney General; she’s leading the Justice Department until Jeff Sessions is confirmed by the Senate. Yates has just learned some alarming news. The new National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has lied ...
09.20.2019 The Report Part VIII: End Of The Beginning It’s May 12, 2017. The FBI is still reeling from the sudden firing of Director James Comey. Andrew McCabe has only been the acting Director for 3 days. He’s trying to talk to Rod Rosenstein about the issue weighing on ...
09.13.2019 BONUS: The Bodybuilder, The Son, & The Turkish Plot We’ve just finished Volume I of our podcast bringing to life Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference, and are hard at work on Volume II. We’ll have that ready for you soon. But in the meantime, we’ve put together ...
09.06.2019 BONUS: The Death of Peter Smith It’s July 2016. Then-FBI Director James Comey gives a press conference explaining that, while he has recommended that the Justice Department not pursue charges against Hillary Clinton for her mishandling of classified information, Clinton’s conduct was “extremely careless.” Evidence has ...
08.30.2019 Part VII: Charging Decisions It’s April 18, 2019, Attorney General Bill Barr summons reporters to the Department of Justice in Washington DC. Robert Mueller’s report is about to be released. Before the press and the public finally see the document for themselves, Barr wants ...
08.23.2019 Part VI: Back Channels It’s December 29, 2016. The Obama administration announces that it’s imposing sanctions on Russia, as punishment for election interference. Michael Flynn has been tapped to become Trump’s national security advisor when the new administration takes office in January, but it’s ...
08.16.2019 The Report Part V: Russian Overtures It’s the morning of April 25, 2016. At a hotel in London, a Maltese professor meets with a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. The two have been in touch over the past few weeks; the professor has ...
08.09.2019 The Report Part IV: A Tale of Two Trump Towers As the Russians were engaged in operations to hack and dump emails, the Trump campaign and its associates were in communication with Wikileaks about the distribution of stolen materials. But that’s far from the whole story of the Trump campaign’s ...
08.02.2019 The Report Part III: The Campaign & The Leaks It’s July 27, 2016. Donald Trump has just given a press conference during which he suggests that Russia hack Hillary Clinton and release the 30,000 allegedly missing emails from her private email server. The Russians, unbeknownst to people in the ...
07.26.2019 The Report Part II: Hack. Dump. Divide. It's March 2016. John Podesta is sitting at his computer. He opens an email. Something’s wrong with his password, it says. It looks a little fishy, but IT says it is legit. And so he clicks. He follows the prompt. ...
07.19.2019 The Report Part I: Active Measures It is 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the heart of the city, a small nondescript office building sits beside the Bolshaya Nevka River. Inside, workers stare at computer screens open to Facebook and Twitter, furiously typing. Their task: Sow ...

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