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The Lawfare Podcast

The Lawfare Institute

The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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36:21

Lawfare Archive: Climate Migration and National Security

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2024/10/13

From September 14, 2023: It’s been another brutal summer with seemingly constant natural disasters precipitated by climate change. The United States and other countries have rightfully begun thinking of climate change as a security issue. But extreme weather is not the only challenge we must contend with. There’s also the problem of climate change’s victims, many of whom are forced to leave their homes.LawfareExecutive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Erin Sikorsky, Director of the Center for

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1:10:04

Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly...

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2024/10/12

This episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on Oct. 10 in front of a live audience onYouTubeand Zoom.LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke with Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith andLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff. They discussed Jack’srecent op-ed in the New York Times—in which he argued that the Justice Department’s recent filing in the Jan. 6 case is in tension with department policy, and that the department should publicly justify the filing

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37:22

Lawfare Daily: Lies and Rumors After Hurricanes...

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2024/10/11

Following the devastation of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, rumors and conspiracy theories about the disaster quickly began spreading online—some of them outrageous and bizarre, and some of them legitimate efforts to make sense of a confusing and frightening situation. With Hurricane Milton moving through Florida, the confusion seems unlikely to let up anytime soon. The volume of rumors circulating “is absolutely the worst I have ever seen,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswelltold

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1:09:19

Rational Security: The “No, the Other Stormy” Edition

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2024/10/10

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds, Kevin Frazier, and Katherine Pompilio to talk over the week's big national security news stories, including:“The Fourth Law of Robotics is, You Don’t Talk About the First Three Laws of Robotics.” California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047 this past week, a measure that would have imposed the first set of meaningful safety regulations on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)—measures industry leaders said were

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41:38

Lawfare Daily: A New Exhibition on Visual...

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2024/10/10

Tyler McBrien, Managing Editor ofLawfare, sat down withLisa Luksch, a curator at the Architekturmuseum der TUM; Anjli Parrin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago; and Brad Samuels, a founding partner at SITU and the Director of SITU Research. They talked about a new exhibition,“Visual Investigations: Between Advocacy, Journalism, and Law,”which opens on Oct. 10 at theArchitekturmuseum der TUM in Munich. The exhibition

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54:11

Lawfare Daily: How the FCC is Tackling National...

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2024/10/09

For today’s episode, Loyaan Egal, the Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor and General Counsel Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Contributing Editor and Morrison Foerster partner Brandon Van Grack to discuss the FCC’s growing but often underappreciated role in advancing U.S. national security.They covered how the FCC’s mandate intersects with U.S. national security concerns, how the FCC is tackling cutting-edge issues

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1:14:47

Chatter: Stoicism and the Military with Prof. Nancy...

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2024/10/08

Stoicism is having a moment.The ancient philosophy--which posits that you can’t control events, but you can control how you respond to them--has lately been embraced by self-help gurus and tech bros. But Nancy Sherman writes that the tenets of Stoicism have long found a receptive audience in “the military mind.” Whether they know it or not, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are guided by many of the principles espoused by Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.Sherman, a professor at Georgetown

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42:00

Lawfare Daily: Jake Effoduh on AI and the Global South

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2024/10/08

Jake Effoduh, Assistant Professor at Lincoln Alexander School of Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, toshare his researchon the Global South’s perspective on AI. Jake has carved a unique and important research agenda looking into how AI advances are impacting the pursuit and realization of human rights in Africa.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also

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26:38

Lawfare Daily: Legal Threats to the Jan. 6...

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2024/10/07

Kyle Cheney, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter for Politico, discusses his recent Politico article on the legal and political landmines threatening the criminal prosecutions of rioters involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff sat down with Kyle to discuss a serious legal challenge to the key misdemeanor charge leveled in more than 90 percent of Jan. 6 cases, a troubling ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declaring most so-called “geofencing”

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1:20:26

Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly...

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2024/10/06

This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on October 3 in front of a live audience onYouTubeand Zoom.LawfareSenior Editor Scott Anderson spoke toLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s immunity motion in the Jan 6 case against former President Trump, what it means for the future of the case and of course took audience questions.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See

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59:39

Lawfare Archive: Hamas’s Attack on Israel and What...

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2024/10/05

From October 11, 2023: This past Saturday, the terrorist group Hamas launched an unprecedented raid from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel that left more than 1000 people – most of them Israeli civilians, many of them women, children, and the elderly – brutally murdered. Dozens more were taken as hostages back into Gaza. A shocked Israel has in turn responded with missile attacks into Gaza that have killed more than 800 Palestinians there, and is planning a broader offensive there. And as people

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47:50

Lawfare Daily: Gavin Newsom Vetos a Controversial AI...

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2024/10/04

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed SB 1047, the controversial AI safety bill passed by the California legislature.LawfareSenior Editor Alan Rozenshtein sat down with St. Thomas University College of Law Assistant Professor Kevin Frazier and George Mason University Mercatus Research Fellow Dean Ball to discuss what was in the bill, why Newsom vetoed it, and where AI safety policing goes from here.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare

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1:28:04

Rational Security: The “Dog Sh*t Daily” Edition

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2024/10/03

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, and Tyler McBrien to try to make sense of the week’s biggest national security news stories, including:“Pulling Up the Escalation Ladder.” Israel’s escalating campaign against Hezbollah turned regional yesterday, as Iran launched a salvo of more than 180 ballistic missiles against Israel. While the damage was limited, both Israel and the United States have promised consequences. What strategies are Israel, Iran,

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49:37

Lawfare Daily: Key Takeaways from the U.N. General...

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2024/10/03

For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Richard Gowan, the U.N. Director for the International Crisis Group, to review what went down at the recent U.N. General Assembly High-Level Week.They discussed how the national leaders who gathered in New York for the meetings responded to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan; how strategic competition between China, Russia, and the United States shaped the proceedings; and what it can tell

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55:12

Lawfare Daily: Hezbollah, Lebanon, Israel, Iran

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2024/10/02

Israel has hit Hezbollah very hard over the past few days, killing much of its senior leadership and eroding its capabilities. It has also displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese and now has ground forces in Lebanon. Iran has responded with a missile barrage against Israel, to which an Israeli response is widely expected. To discuss the latest events in the expanding war, Lawfare's Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Firas Maksad of the Middle East Institute, Natan Sachs of the

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1:13:46

Chatter: Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories and Pop...

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2024/10/01

Conspiracy theories about supposed Jewish control of global finance and politics have been circulating and influencing popular culture for centuries, with the spotlight often falling on the Rothschild family. Author Mike Rothschild (no relation), who has researched and written about the phenomenon in his bookJewish Space Lasers, joinedDavidPriess to discuss the appeal of conspiracy theories overall, the genesis of the Rothschilds' wealth, legends about the family's involvement in the Battle of

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Lawfare Daily: Robert Mahari on Addictive...

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2024/10/01

Robert Mahari, a joint JD-PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to explain how increased use of AI agents may lead humans to form troublingly and even addictive relationships with artificial systems. Robert also shares the significance of his research on common uses of existing generative AI systems. This interview builds on Robert’srecent piece in the MIT Tech

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44:22

Lawfare Daily: Mayor Adams, the Feds, and a Whole Lot...

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2024/09/30

New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing indictment in connectionwith a foreign influence scheme involving Turkey.It’sthe latest in a long string of actions by the Justice Department to counter foreign efforts to interfere in the American political system. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic, and Contributing Editor Brandon Van Grack to discuss the charges against Adams and the larger pattern of which they are a part.To receive

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38:31

Lawfare Archive: Foreign Agents and the Barrack...

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2024/09/29

From September 21, 2022: This past Monday, the criminal trial of Thomas Barrack began in federal court in the Eastern District of New York. Barrack, who served as an informal advisor to the 2016 Trump campaign and then as chair of Trump's inaugural committee, is alleged to have acted as a foreign agent of the United Arab Emirates. According to the indictment, Barrack acted as a back channel for the UAE to influence U.S. foreign policy.Lawfareexecutive editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Alex

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1:25:36

Lawfare Daily: National Security and the 2024...

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2024/09/28

This episode of “Lawfare Live: National Security and the 2024 Election” was recorded on September 24 in front of a live audience onYoutubeand Zoom.LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke toLawfareSenior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Molly Reynolds, Quinta Jurecic, and Anna Bower and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School Nate Persily. They discussed how Congress has prepared for the 2024 election, including the passage of the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, how the government and social media

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