#oops i still havent watched it
I have you covered, friends. Here are a selection of podcast episodes with really in-depth discussions and expert commentary which were useful to me in understanding what I’d just watched.
- The Lawfare Podcast: Carrie Cordero and Paul Rosenzweig Weigh in on Comey. Carrie Cordero, a former attorney at the National Security Division of the Justice Department, and Paul Rosenzweig, who worked for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, talk through the seriousness of the testimony and rate how bad it was for Trump. A piece they mention on the podcast is John Carlin’s Washington Post piece, “Sitting presidents can’t be prosecuted. Probably.” Lawfare also put up an abridged version of the Comey testimony––a condensed, only-the-good-stuff audio version of Thursday’s hearing.
- Slate’sAmicus podcast with Dahlia Lithwick: Nice Little FBI You’ve Got Here. Pity if Something Happened to It.Informative discussion of the ins and outs of what constitutes obstruction of justice and how that kind of case could be built here with Stanford Law School professor Robert Weisberg. The second part of the podcast is also a very interesting discussion of the legal weight of Trump’s tweets, specifically his tweets about the travel ban.
- Slate’sTrumpcast: Oh Lordy Jim Comey! Jamelle Bouie talks to the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent about the testimony and what might possibly be going on in elected Republicans’s heads and what it might take for them to take action on Trump.
- The NYT’s The Daily: James Comey’s Testimony.This one’s short and sweet. First, a reaction and analysis from Timesreporter Matt Apuzzo, and then some backstory from Michael Schmidt, the reporter to whom Comey leaked his memo via a friend at Columbia Law. The Times also provides a full transcript of the testimony and some video highlights.
- FiveThirtyEight’s Emergency Politics Podcast: Comey’s Testimony. Some FiveThirty journalists take stock of exactly how big a deal what just happened was.
- NPR’s Politics Podcast: James Comey Testifies.This is more of the same––journalists eagerly dissecting the drama––but with some great specific insights.
