- 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’s Amicus 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’s Trumpcast: 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 Times reporter 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.
More Articles about it:
- Trump survived James Comey’s testimony, but the fallout could be fatal: The former FBI director threw out a trail of clues for the speical counsel to follow in the Trump-Russia investigation, which looks set to shadow his presidency.
- Between the Lines of Jim Comey’s Testimony: “..Moreover, as a former FBI agent, I know the importance of reading between the lines; and in this case, a great deal went unsaid both about the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the peril the president himself could face…”
- James Comey Testimony: Senator Richard Burr’s Full Opening Statement: Full text of the Republican ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
- Analysis//Comey-Trump Talks Sound Like Medley of the West Wing and Godfather IV: Obstruction of justice or not, the FBI Director’s opening statement makes clear he thinks the president is a creep.
- Fact Check: Is Trump Right to Say Comey’s Testimony Vindicated Him? Everything you need to know about Donald Trump’s reactions to former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony.
- ‘We’re the Next Monica Lewinsky’ In Moscow, Comey’s Explosive Testimony Is Knocked as anti-Russia Witch Hunt. While Americans were glued to TV screens for Comey’s testimony, Russians shrugged it off as over-hype, U.S. clutching at straws to prove Russia interfered in election.
- Comey Testimony: Highlights of Hearing. Mr. Comey said Mr. Trump lied to the American public when he said that the F.B.I. was in disarray and that agents had lost confidence in Mr. Comey.
- Comey’s Testimony Was Ratings Gold, Even at 10 A.M. “..Roughly 19.5 million Americans tuned in on Thursday to watch James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, unspool the tale of his awkward, unsettling and, at times, ethically questionable encounters with President Trump. That is about the same number of people who watched Game 2 of this week’s N.B.A. finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers..”
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